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Category: People

MSTP trainee Lizzie Tilden receives prestigious F30 award

September 18, 2023September 18, 2023
Lizzie Tilden

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.

Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience welcomes inaugural fellow

August 18, 2023August 18, 2023
Leandro Fosque and Washington University shield logo

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

August 15, 2023August 15, 2023
Naoki Hiratani and Washington University shield logo

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.

Paul Bridgman, Professor of Neuroscience and innovative educator, retires

June 22, 2023June 22, 2023
Paul Bridgman

Dr. Bridgman made fundamental discoveries into the structure of growth cones and developed novel histology teaching approaches over his 4-decade career at Washington University.

Amy Christensen receives Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship   

May 19, 2023May 19, 2023
Amy Christensen and Washington University shield logo

The three-year award will support Dr. Christensen’s postdoctoral research in Adam Kepecs’ lab on the neural computations underlying uncertainty in decision-making.

Xiyun Zhang wins 2023 Spector Prize (Links to an external site)

May 11, 2023May 11, 2023
Xiyun Zhang and Washington University shield logo

Zhang, who completed her undergraduate thesis in Dr. Harrison Gabel’s lab, is a co-recipient of this award honoring outstanding contributions to research.

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.

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.

Adam Kepecs selected for Buzsáki Lecture Award by Hungarian Neuroscience Society

February 6, 2023March 6, 2023
Adam Kepecs and the Buzsaki Lecture Award stature--a metal sculpture of a sharp wave ripple

Professor Kepecs presented to the Joint Meeting of the Hungarian and Austrian Neuroscience Societies on his approaches to developing methods to accurately model human psychiatric disorders.

David Van Essen listed as Highly Cited Researcher for eighth consecutive year

December 9, 2022March 6, 2023
David Van Essen

Matthew Glasser, a former graduate student of Van Essen and currently an Instructor in Radiology, also made the 2022 list.

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