Assistant Professor Jason Yi’s latest work on UBE3A is highlighted in Spectrum.
‘Gain-of-function’ mutation spawns autism traits (Links to an external site)
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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.
Gabel Lab identifies molecular links between Sotos and Tatton Brown Rahman Syndromes
The two rare genetic diseases, which have striking phenotypic similarities, lead to similar downstream consequences on gene activity in neurons of mouse models.
Kristen Prufrock awarded grant to study how tooth formation affects face shape
As part of a collaborative team, Prufrock will produce models of how developing teeth influence facial bone growth in multiple primate species.
Martha Bagnall receives R01 grant from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
The Bagnall Lab is creating a map of connections along the length of neurons in the spinal cord to understand their function in movement.