The $7 million grant awarded to a team of collaborators is part of the NIH’s new Impact of Genomic Variation on Function Consortium.
Guoyan Zhao receives grant to investigate genetic variations in neurodegenerative diseases
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Michael Nonet receives R01 grant to improve transgenesis method
The project aims to refine recombination-mediated cassette exchange (RMCE), an approach to inserting large DNA sequences into the genome, for use in the model organism C. elegans.
Linda Richards receives Pioneer Award from NIH (Links to an external site)
Richards, the head of the Department of Neuroscience, will apply the high-risk, high-reward grant to developing a new animal model for studying brain development.
Ilya Monosov receives grant to develop noninvasive treatment method (Links to an external site)
Along with co-PI Hong Chen, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and collaborators including neuroscience professor Larry Snyder, Monosov will adapt an approach to controlling brain activity, called optogenetics, with the ultimate goal of repairing neural dysfunction.
Geoffrey Goodhill awarded grant to advance brain imaging
The BRAIN Initiative funding will improve the ability of light field microscopy to record the activity of all neurons across the entire larval zebrafish brain as the animal swims freely.
James Fitzpatrick receives grant for cutting-edge optical microscope
The Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging will add a Zeiss LSM 980 Airyscan 2 microscope platform to its world-class collection of instruments.
Tristan Qingyun Li receives Whitehall grant
The funding will support research on the function of a subset of microglia, immune cells that reside in the brain.
Four Neuroscience faculty members receive R01 grants
The NIH funding was awarded to Guoyan Zhao, Thomas Papouin, Yao Chen and Jason Yi.