Partnering with St. Louis–based uFab, the Neurotech Hub can meet the need for bespoke neuroscience technology in house.
Neurotech Hub at Washington University forms collaboration to develop custom printed circuit boards
Category: Research
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.
‘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.
Humans will trade pain for useless information (Links to an external site)
Read comments from Dr. Ethan Bromberg-Martin, a senior scientist in Ilya Monosov’s lab, on a new study about the value of inconsequential knowledge.
Jason Yi and Harrison Gabel each receive SFARI Pilot Awards to study autism-related disorders
In the Yi Lab, the funding will go to developing an inhibitor of the protein UBE3A, which causes neurodevelopmental disorders. The Gabel Lab is establishing a novel platform to examine brain connectivity and gene disruption in a model of Rett Syndrome.
The shape of your brain may strongly influence your thoughts and behavior, study finds (Links to an external site)
Read Dr. David Van Essen’s comments on the new study in Nature.
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.
Two Department of Neuroscience scholars receive grants from McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience
Assistant Professor Tom Franken will explore how the brain distinguishes objects from shadows, and Alessandro Livi, a postdoctoral researcher, will map the brain networks underlying economic decision-making.
WashU, JuliaHub and MIT developers unveil major update to Julia programming language (Links to an external site)
Professor Tim Holy and colleagues produced Julia 1.9, which eliminates slow startup times and lowers the barriers to even wider adoption of this popular tool.