The McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience Small Grants Program will provide $100,000 over two years.
Amy Christensen receives grant to study how psychedelics influence mouse behavior
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How do tired animals stay awake? (Links to an external site)
A new study on fruit flies from Dr. Paul Shaw’s lab finds clues to a good night’s sleep, insomnia.
Paul Bridgman, Larry Snyder receive Lifetime Achievement Awards from Academy of Educators
Their dedication to teaching and innovations in the classroom are recognized by one of the highest honors at Washington University School of Medicine.
Ilya Monosov receives R01 to study neural mechanisms of novelty seeking
The $2-million grant will go to identifying the circuits and computations responsible for integrating novelty- and reward-seeking in behaviors.
School of Medicine joins major NIH brain mapping effort (Links to an external site)
David C. Van Essen, PhD, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience and Matthew F. Glasser, MD, PhD, an instructor in radiology at the university’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, will create and analyze brain maps of individual people and nonhuman primates to determine the kinds of cells that comprise each brain area using data collected from people and animals scanned at collaborating sites.
Ilya Monosov to lead part of new Conte Center team focused on obsessive compulsive disorder research (Links to an external site)
The collaborative effort to study OCD is funded by a $15.6 million award from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Assistant Professor Tom Franken joins the Department of Neuroscience
Franken studies sensory processing, including how visual scenes are perceived as collections of objects and background.
Professor Larry Snyder receives Excellence in Teaching award
The WashU neuroscience community honors Dr. Snyder for his outstanding education efforts over the years as an instructor, course director and PhD program director.
Timothy Holy awarded R01 grant to investigate neural mechanisms of olfaction
Holy’s research will investigate the structural features that modulate odorant receptor-ligand interactions in the vomeronasal system, which is responsible for pheromone sensing.
Ann Olendorff retires after more than 35 years in the Department of Neuroscience
Olendorff managed equipment, facilities, renovations, and day-to-day operations, working “minor miracles” to keep the Department running smoothly.