News
Brain Development & Disorders Symposium – November 11, 2026
WashU faculty, trainees, researchers, and staff are invited to participate in the Brain Development & Disorders Symposium on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building. This internal symposium will bring together investigators from WashU and invited speakers from institutions around the world to explore […]
CTCN Post Doctoral Fellow Hayoung Song Appointed to Faculty at UT Austin
Hayoung Song, Ph.D., has completed her post-doctoral fellowship through the Center for Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience (CTCN) at Washington University, and accepted a faculty position at the University of Texas at Austin beginning in August 2026. This fall, as an assistant professor of psychology, her focus will be on starting her own research lab and […]
Hysell Oviedo named Perlmutter Career Development Assistant Professor (Links to an external site)
Hysell Oviedo, PhD, a neuroscientist uncovering how the brain interprets sound and language, has been installed as a Roger M. Perlmutter Career Development Assistant Professor at WashU Medicine.
Publications
Laser-engineered PRIME fiber for panoramic reconfigurable control of neural activity
Researchers from the McKelvey School of Engineering and the Kepecs Lab have a new paper in Nature Neuroscience describing their development of a panoramically reconfigurable illuminative (PRIME) that offers a powerful platform for optical control of neural circuits across the brain.

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