Martha Bagnall, PhD, is the principal investigator on a $5.2 million NIH grant involving collaborators at four universities.
Working within and beyond WashU
Prufrock named to WashU Medicine Academy of Educators
Kristen Prufrock, PhD, was inducted Oct. 15 into the Academy of Educators at Washington University School of Medicine.
Nature paper explores dopamine-mediated interactions between short- and long-term memory dynamics (Links to an external site)
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.
CTCN postdoc fellow earns NIH grant
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.
Remembering Dennis D.M. O’Leary, former WashU neuroscience student and faculty member
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.
Kepecs awarded NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (Links to an external site)
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.
Franken and Wessel win NIH grant to study how artificial and biological brains process video imagery (Links to an external site)
WashU assistant professor of neuroscience Tom Franken and professor of physics Ralf Wessel have secured a $427,625 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how artificial neural networks and primate brains process and predict video imagery.
Li Lab study published in Immunity further explores microglial states (Links to an external site)
A recent study published in Immunity by the Li lab opens a new chapter for the study of microglial function in development and neurodegeneration with remarkable precision.
Rosa-Molinar named director of cellular imaging center, joins Department of Neuroscience faculty (Links to an external site)
Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, PhD, has been named the new scientific director of the Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging (WUCCI) and has joined the faculty of the Department of Cell Biology & Physiology and the Department of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine.
David Kim to receive Feldman Fellowship Award at COBRAS 3rd Annual Symposium
On Thursday, June 6th, David Kim, an undergraduate researcher with the Chen Lab, will be awarded the 2024-2025 COBRAS Feldman Fellowship to conduct research on sleep regulation and functions.