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Category: Featured

Jung Uk Kang receives O’Leary Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience Research

March 16, 2023March 16, 2023
Jung Uk Kang and Washington University shield logo

Kang, a graduate student in the lab of Larry Snyder, studies communication between two areas in the posterior parietal cortex during coordinated eye and arm movements.

Washington University launches new post-bacc neuroscience training opportunity

March 16, 2023March 16, 2023
Woman looks at a computer screen in a darkened room

Neuroprep is a two-year, paid program for recent college graduates from groups currently under-represented in the profession to gain research skills in preparation for grad school.

Department of Neuroscience marks International Women’s Day with Mildred Trotter Lecture

March 3, 2023March 3, 2023
Rachel Wilson

Rachel Wilson, PhD, of Harvard Medical School presents the 2023 Lecture on the neural circuitry of navigation and reflects on the status of women in science.

Transcriptomic changes in glia linked to specific neurodegenerative diseases

March 2, 2023March 2, 2023
mmunohistochemistry staining of activated microglia in putamen of an individual with AD (microglia labeled by marker protein P2RY12, brown, and activation indicated by TREM2 transcripts, red)

A study of human brain tissue by Guoyan Zhao and colleagues identifies genetic activity in microglia and astrocytes related neurodegeneration and neuropathology among individuals with Alzheimer or Parkinson disease.

Cheng Huang joins Department of Neuroscience as Assistant Professor

February 22, 2023February 22, 2023
Cheng Huang next to Washington University shield logo in gray

Huang studies memory processing and retrieval in Drosophila and has developed cutting-edge optical tools for observing neural plasticity in behaving flies.

Cavalli Lab describes immune cells that promote nerve regeneration

February 10, 2023February 22, 2023
Dorsal root ganglion stained with TUJ1 (neuron, cyan) and IBA1 (macrophages, red)

After an injury to dorsal root ganglion neurons adjacent to the spinal cord, resident macrophages work with satellite glial cells to heal damaged axons.

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