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Now accepting applications for WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award! (Links to an external site)

May 24, 2024June 28, 2024

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)

Office of Faculty Promotions and Career Development • April 29, 2024April 29, 2024

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)

Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience • April 23, 2024April 23, 2024

Woman discussing a scientific poster to two viewers

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)

School of Medicine news release • April 19, 2024April 19, 2024

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

By Kerry Grens and Brian • April 2, 2024April 2, 2024

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)

Nature Index • March 25, 2024March 25, 2024

The “Super Blue Moon” rises in the night sky over the Neuroscience Research Building and downtown St. Louis skyline on August 30, 2023.

The global rankings reflect research publication output in the health sciences.

Fluorescence lifetime imaging captures neuromodulator dynamics at multiple time scales

By Kerry Grens and Brian • March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

Summaries of intensity and fluorescence lifetime of GRABACh3.0 in different sleep-wake stages in one mouse across sensor expression time.

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.

Tiny tweaks to neurons can rewire animal motion (Links to an external site)

Quanta • March 12, 2024March 12, 2024

Read Dr. Martha Bagnall’s comments in Quanta on a new study capturing the role of a potassium channel in the rattlesnake’s rattle.

Mary Bartlett Bunge, 92, Dies; Pioneer in Spinal Injury Treatment (Links to an external site)

New York Times • March 6, 2024March 6, 2024

New York Times obituary of former Washington University professor Dr. Mary Bartlett Bunge

Congratulations to Kia Barclay and Saul Bello Rojas, finalists for the 2024 O’Leary Prize (Links to an external site)

Office of Neuroscience Research • March 1, 2024March 19, 2024

The award acknowledges the most original and important accomplishments in Neuroscience research at WashU by a predoctoral student or postdoctoral fellow.