In collaboration with labs from Caltech and the University of Southern California, his team will track each cell in the zebrafish brain to document the biological basis of sleep.
Category: Research
Study finds key similarities between rodent and human satellite glial cells
SGCs have been the subject of intense scrutiny for their involvement in inflammation, pain and nerve injury. The results confirm that rodents are a reliable model for translational research on these cells.
Protein linked to intellectual disability has complex role (Links to an external site)
Finding therapies for fragile X may depend on understanding the many ways the protein’s loss affects the brain.
Guoyan Zhao receives grant for single-cell proteomics in the human brain
Zhao, an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience, will apply imaging mass cytometry technology to analyze tissue samples from Alzheimer’s patients.
Serendipity unites physicians, researchers, families to fight rare genetic disease in kids (Links to an external site)
Groundbreaking cancer research helps shed light on recently identified disorder, Tatton Brown Rahman Syndrome.
New primer on logistic models for research in decision neuroscience
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD, has developed a manual of tools for analysis of economic choices.
Yi lab develops assay to solve mystery genetic variants
Assistant Professor Jason Yi’s group applied the technique to variants of unknown significance in UBE3A, the gene that underlies Angelman syndrome.
Yao Chen, PhD, receives grant from Mathers Foundation
The $500,000 award will go toward studying cellular influences on neuromodulator function.
Mohini Sengupta wins Mightex Research Excellence Award
Sengupta, a postdoc in Martha Bagnall’s lab, earned third place for illuminating the connectivity of spinal interneurons in zebrafish.
New study shows hierarchical and nonhierarchical network architectures between areas of mouse visual cortex
The Burkhalter lab finds that areas are embedded within a hierarchical network in which image fragments from the retina are sent through bottom-up pathways to extract percepts, and top-down pathways from higher to lower areas provide prior knowledge for interpreting the visual scene.