Department News

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.

Song, who is completing her PhD at the University of Chicago, will focus on developing a computational understanding of high-level cognition.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Assistant Professor Tavoni studies how information is encoded and processed in neural networks and the mechanisms that optimize these functions.

Findings shed light on mental illnesses, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety

Professor Krikor Dikranian and Assistant Professor Peter Bayguinov among authors of new study in Nature describing a route that serves as a passageway to clear fluid waste from brain.

Celebration signals ‘new era for medical science’