Professors Burkhalter and Padoa-Schioppa are selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa and Andreas Burkhalter elected to AAAS (Links to an external site)
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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.
Tiny tweaks to neurons can rewire animal motion (Links to an external site)
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 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)
The award acknowledges the most original and important accomplishments in Neuroscience research at WashU by a predoctoral student or postdoctoral fellow.
Catherine Dulac, PhD, to present 41st Mildred Trotter Lecture
At this event, which recognizes International Women’s Day, Dulac will present her latest findings on the neural underpinnings of social isolation and sickness behaviors.
Gaia Tavoni, PhD, awarded Sloan Research Fellowship (Links to an external site)
Assistant Professor Tavoni studies how information is encoded and processed in neural networks and the mechanisms that optimize these functions.
Key regulator of decision-making pinpointed in brain (Links to an external site)
Findings shed light on mental illnesses, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety