The Department of Neuroscience seeks a tenure-track investigator to develop innovative research programs in theoretical and computational neuroscience.
Assistant Professor position in Computational Neuroscience
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Sleep disruption—whether from loss of sleep or “social jet lag”—affects thermoregulation
Fruit flies seek out warmer temperatures when they experience sleep deprivation or fragmentation or when faced with a shifted sleep schedule, similar to when people stay up late and sleep in on the weekend.
Neurotech Hub at Washington University forms collaboration to develop custom printed circuit boards
Partnering with St. Louis–based uFab, the Neurotech Hub can meet the need for bespoke neuroscience technology in house.
Applications open for 2024 INSPIRE Symposium (Links to an external site)
Senior graduate students are invited to present their thesis research at Washington University in May 2024. This two-day, all-expenses-paid visit will include one-on-one faculty meetings, networking activities with postdocs and graduate students, and a tour of St. Louis.
MSTP trainee Lizzie Tilden receives prestigious F30 award
Tilden, a graduate student in Yao Chen’s lab, received the fellowship to pursue her research on how sleep, learning and aging are tied together.
Do spiders dream? What about cuttlefish? Bearded dragons? (Links to an external site)
Read Dr. Paul Shaw’s comments in an article in Knowable Magazine about REM sleep across the animal kingdom.
How do developing brains assemble and organize themselves? (Links to an external site)
Brain areas are marked by distinct activity patterns very early, marsupial study published in PNAS by the Richards Lab shows.
Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience welcomes inaugural fellow
Leandro Fosque, PhD, joins the CTCN at Washington University to study the mechanisms underlying homeostasis in the brain.
Naoki Hiratani joins the Department of Neuroscience as Assistant Professor
Hiratani, a theoretical neuroscientist, seeks to bridge the gap between neuroscience and AI to gain a better understanding of both the brain and artificial intelligence.
‘Gain-of-function’ mutation spawns autism traits (Links to an external site)
Assistant Professor Jason Yi’s latest work on UBE3A is highlighted in Spectrum.