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Camillo Padoa-Schioppa: Value in the brain, orbitofrontal cortex, and causality in neuroscience (Links to an external site)
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Arthur Loewy and the central regulation of autonomic nervous function
Dr. Loewy worked over his decades-long career at Washington University to uncover connections between the peripheral and central nervous systems.
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.
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.
Paul Bridgman, Professor of Neuroscience and innovative educator, retires
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
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)
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
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
Huang studies memory processing and retrieval in Drosophila and has developed cutting-edge optical tools for observing neural plasticity in behaving flies.