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Tristan Qingyun Li receives Whitehall grant
The funding will support research on the function of a subset of microglia, immune cells that reside in the brain.
Jason Yi appointed to Angelman Syndrome Foundation scientific advisory board
Yi studies UBE3A, the protein that is lacking in individuals with Angelman syndrome.
WashU Neuroscience Community’s annual retreat to be held September 30 – October 1, 2021 (Links to an external site)
This year’s keynote speakers are Tallie Baram, PhD, from the University of California, Irvine and Viviana Gradinaru, PhD, from the California Institute of Technology.
Inez Edwards, Debbie Pfeiffer honored with Operations Staff Service Awards
“She was some of the glue that kept the place going.”
Four Neuroscience faculty members receive R01 grants
The NIH funding was awarded to Guoyan Zhao, Thomas Papouin, Yao Chen and Jason Yi.
INSPIRE seminar series invites applications from graduate students around the world to present their research (Links to an external site)
The deadline is September 15, 2021.
New media manager joins Department of Neuroscience
Kerry Grens will manage content for the department’s freshly renovated website, as well as its social media channels and other platforms.
New Director of the Business Office, Kaslina Love Mosley
Most recently, Mosley was the research manager for the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine.
Study finds brain areas involved in seeking information about bad possibilities (Links to an external site)
Provides insight into how people decide whether they want to know what future holds
Satellite glial cells promote regenerative growth in sensory neurons
In a new paper, Valeria Cavalli’s lab describes the key role of a relatively poorly studied type of glial cells, satellite glial cells (SGC), in nerve repair.
Valeria Cavalli receives an R35 award from the NIH
Dr. Cavalli’s team will combine single-cell approaches and epigenomic approaches in mouse and human sensory neurons to understand the neuronal and non-neuronal mechanisms orchestrating nerve repair.
Central vestibular tuning arises from patterned convergence of otolith afferents
The Bagnall lab finds the complexity of tuning in a vestibular neuron arises from the diversity of inputs it receives, and that this complexity can be predicted from these inputs.
Striatal dopamine mediates hallucination-like perception in mice (Links to an external site)
A study from Adam Kepecs’s lab in mice and people offers a new approach to investigating mental illnesses.
MeCP2 represses enhancers through chromosome topology-associated DNA methylation
In a new study, the Gabel lab explores the role of MeCP2 in regulating enhancers.
