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MSTP trainee Lizzie Tilden receives prestigious F30 award

By Kerry Grens and Brian • September 18, 2023December 14, 2023
Lizzie Tilden

Tilden, a graduate student in Yao Chen’s lab, received the fellowship to pursue her research on how sleep, learning and aging are tied together.

Do spiders dream? What about cuttlefish? Bearded dragons? (Links to an external site)

Knowable Magazine • August 31, 2023October 18, 2023
A cuttlefish resting on the bottom of an aquarium

Read Dr. Paul Shaw’s comments in an article in Knowable Magazine about REM sleep across the animal kingdom.

How do developing brains assemble and organize themselves? (Links to an external site)

School of Medicine news release • August 29, 2023October 18, 2023
Video of a wave of electrical activity passes over the visual area of the brain of a marsupial joey.

Brain areas are marked by distinct activity patterns very early, marsupial study published in PNAS by the Richards Lab shows.

Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience welcomes inaugural fellow

By Kerry Grens and Brian • August 18, 2023October 18, 2023
Leandro Fosque and Washington University shield logo

Leandro Fosque, PhD, joins the CTCN at Washington University to study the mechanisms underlying homeostasis in the brain.

Naoki Hiratani joins the Department of Neuroscience as Assistant Professor

By Kerry Grens and Brian • August 15, 2023October 18, 2023
Naoki Hiratani and Washington University shield logo

Hiratani, a theoretical neuroscientist, seeks to bridge the gap between neuroscience and AI to gain a better understanding of both the brain and artificial intelligence.

‘Gain-of-function’ mutation spawns autism traits (Links to an external site)

Spectrum • July 31, 2023October 18, 2023
Embryonic mice with a hyperactivating mutation in UBE3A show increased numbers of a specific subset of inhibitory interneurons (green) in the brain’s outer layer.

Assistant Professor Jason Yi’s latest work on UBE3A is highlighted in Spectrum.

Humans will trade pain for useless information (Links to an external site)

Science • July 12, 2023October 18, 2023
A hand flipping a gold coin on a blue background

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

By Kerry Grens and Brian • July 11, 2023October 18, 2023
Jason Yi and Harrison Gabel

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.

Paul Bridgman, Professor of Neuroscience and innovative educator, retires

By Kerry Grens and Brian • June 22, 2023October 18, 2023
Paul Bridgman

Dr. Bridgman made fundamental discoveries into the structure of growth cones and developed novel histology teaching approaches over his 4-decade career at Washington University.

The shape of your brain may strongly influence your thoughts and behavior, study finds (Links to an external site)

NBC News • June 2, 2023December 14, 2023
A man points at brain scans on a computer screen

Read Dr. David Van Essen’s comments on the new study in Nature.

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