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CTCN postdoc fellow earns NIH grant

October 21, 2024

Leandro Fosque, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience (CTCN) at Washington University, has been awarded an F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award.

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Remembering Dennis D.M. O’Leary, former WashU neuroscience student and faculty member

October 17, 2024

Dennis D.M. O’Leary, who earned his PhD in neural sciences in 1983 at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, recently passed away.

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Kepecs awarded NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (Links to an external site)

October 8, 2024

Adam Kepecs, PhD, the Robert J. Terry Professor of Neuroscience and a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been selected for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award, to study how the brain’s neural circuits decode signals from the immune system and orchestrate adjustments in behavior and motivation.

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Nature paper explores dopamine-mediated interactions between short- and long-term memory dynamic s

In Nature, Cheng Huang and colleagues show that in the Drosophila brain, interconnected short- and long-term memory units of the mushroom body jointly regulate memory through dopamine signals that encode innate and learnt sensory valences.