A recent study published in Immunity by the Li lab opens a new chapter for the study of microglial function in development and neurodegeneration with remarkable precision.
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Rosa-Molinar named director of cellular imaging center, joins Department of Neuroscience faculty (Links to an external site)
Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, PhD, has been named the new scientific director of the Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging (WUCCI) and has joined the faculty of the Department of Cell Biology & Physiology and the Department of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine.
David Kim to receive Feldman Fellowship Award at COBRAS 3rd Annual Symposium
On Thursday, June 6th, David Kim, an undergraduate researcher with the Chen Lab, will be awarded the 2024-2025 COBRAS Feldman Fellowship to conduct research on sleep regulation and functions.
Now accepting applications for WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award! (Links to an external site)
The goal of the $10,000 WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award is to recognize and encourage early career investigators who have demonstrated bold, pioneering research that is high-risk by virtue of being fundamentally different from standard approaches. The intent is to encourage scientific research investigators to challenge status quo approaches by developing fundamentally different methods, approaches, […]
Thomas Papouin receives 2024 Dean’s Impact Award (Links to an external site)
Papouin, an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, is acknowledged for his extraordinary efforts in guiding the career development of trainees.
Applications open for Computational Neuroscience Next Generation Symposium (Links to an external site)
Graduate students and postdocs are invited to apply for this opportunity to present your research and connect with our thriving computational and theoretical neuroscience community.
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa and Andreas Burkhalter elected to AAAS (Links to an external site)
Professors Burkhalter and Padoa-Schioppa are selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Hayoung Song to join WashU as CTCN Fellow
Song, who is completing her PhD at the University of Chicago, will focus on developing a computational understanding of high-level cognition.
WashU among top 10 academic institutions from Nature Index (Links to an external site)
The global rankings reflect research publication output in the health sciences.
Fluorescence lifetime imaging captures neuromodulator dynamics at multiple time scales
A new study from Yao Chen’s lab reveals that some fluorescent-intensity–based sensors also show fluorescence lifetime responses, expanding observations of neuromodulator activity over time and distance.