Department of Neuroscience

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Amy Bauernfeind appointed vice chair for education

January 12, 2022

Bauernfeind, an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience, is the first to hold the position for the department.

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Enhanced sleep improves learning and memory in flies with learning deficits

January 11, 2022

Paul Shaw’s lab demonstrates that sleep induction in fruit flies otherwise unable to perform learning and memory tasks rescues their behavioral performance.

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Student of sleep: A profile of Lizzie Tilden

January 5, 2022

The MSTP student brings her background in systems neuroscience to the cutting-edge molecular biology expertise of Yao Chen’s laboratory.

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New dedicated Neuroscience Research Building

Bringing together more than 100 research teams to help solve the brain’s mysteries.

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A pathway emerges

Researchers including James Fitzpatrick and Michael Rau of WUCCI and the Department of Neuroscience describe the structure and function of a heme transport and assembly machine called CcsBA.