SGCs have been the subject of intense scrutiny for their involvement in inflammation, pain and nerve injury. The results confirm that rodents are a reliable model for translational research on these cells.
Zhao, an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience, will apply imaging mass cytometry technology to analyze tissue samples from Alzheimer’s patients.
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD, has developed a manual of tools for analysis of economic choices.
Assistant Professor Jason Yi’s group applied the technique to variants of unknown significance in UBE3A, the gene that underlies Angelman syndrome.
The $500,000 award will go toward studying cellular influences on neuromodulator function.
As a graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience, Glasser came to be a leader in the Human Connectome Project.
Our laboratory animal technicians are the backbone of basic research that relies on animal models.
Sengupta, a postdoc in Martha Bagnall’s lab, earned third place for illuminating the connectivity of spinal interneurons in zebrafish.
The Burkhalter lab finds that areas are embedded within a hierarchical network in which image fragments from the retina are sent through bottom-up pathways to extract percepts, and top-down pathways from higher to lower areas provide prior knowledge for interpreting the visual scene.
Bauernfeind, an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience, is the first to hold the position for the department.