Department News

Cheng Huang, PhD, has won a Whitehall Foundation grant to study the neural mechanisms of prediction using Drosophila (fruit flies) as a powerful model to understand analogous processes in the human brain.

Tom Franken, MD, PhD, has received a Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) to fund a new direction in his research on the neural mechanisms of perception.

In Frontiers in Pharmacology, Lawrence Salkoff, PhD, and colleagues report how norfluoxetine, a long-lasting metabolite of fluoxetine that may accumulate in the brain at greater concentrations than fluoxetine itself in patients treated with fluoxetine, is most likely the agent bringing relief to the patients.

Zahra Dhanerawala, an MD/PhD student in the lab of Edward Han, PhD, was awarded an American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship to further her research into the connection between the hippocampus and memory.

Martha Bagnall, PhD, is the principal investigator on a $5.2 million NIH grant involving collaborators at four universities.

Kristen Prufrock, PhD, was inducted Oct. 15 into the Academy of Educators at Washington University School of Medicine.

In Nature, Cheng Huang, PhD, and colleagues show that in the Drosophila brain, interconnected short- and long-term memory units of the mushroom body jointly regulate memory through dopamine signals that encode innate and learnt sensory valences.

Leandro Fosque, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience (CTCN) at Washington University, has been awarded an F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award.

Dennis D.M. O’Leary, who earned his PhD in neural sciences in 1983 at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, recently passed away. 

Adam Kepecs, PhD, the Robert J. Terry Professor of Neuroscience and a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been selected for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award, to study how the brain’s neural circuits decode signals from the immune system and orchestrate adjustments in behavior and motivation.

WashU assistant professor of neuroscience Tom Franken and professor of physics Ralf Wessel have secured a $427,625 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how artificial neural networks and primate brains process and predict video imagery.

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.

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.

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.

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, […]

Papouin, an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, is acknowledged for his extraordinary efforts in guiding the career development of trainees.

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.

Professors Burkhalter and Padoa-Schioppa are selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.