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Dr. Joey Dunsmoor awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundationed NSF

February 14, 2019

Dr. Joey Dunsmoor in the Department of Psychiatry has earned a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards from the National Science Foundation.

The CAREER award Program offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious

Dr. Andrew Gaudet publishes in eNeuro

December 12, 2018

Dr. Andrew Gaudet recently published an article in eNeuro entitled "Spinal cord injury in rats disrupts the circadian system". Although paralysis is the most noticeable result of a spinal cord injury, a new study by the Gaduet lab suggests such injuries could throw off the internal clock of the entire body's daily activities, from hormones to sleep-wake schedules.

Dr. Alex Huth receives 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship

March 22, 2018

Dr. Alex Huth, INS faculty member from the Department of Neuroscience and Department of Computer Science, received a 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship. These fellowships, awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Each year, following a highly competitive nomination and application process, the Sloan Foundation awards fellowships to 126 researchers across the country in recognition of their distinguished performance and unique potential to Read more about Dr. Alex Huth receives 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship

Dr. Bob Messing receives 2018 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award

February 23, 2018

Dr. Bob Messing recently won a 2018 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award, through the Harrington Discovery Institute for his research project "New therapeutic to treat pain and addiction." This award supports breakthrough discoveries in diverse research areas including cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, and addiction and provides access to financial support and critical drug development resources.

Dr. Al Bovik receives The Edwin H. Land Medal

November 20, 2017

Dr. Al Bovik received the Edwin H. Land Medal from The Optical Society. The Land medal was created in honor of the great American scientist, entrepreneur, and academic Edwin H. Land, who invented the instant camera, founded and chaired the Polaroid Corporation, and invented the Retinex theory of color constancy in vision. The medal is awarded in recognition of pioneering work empowered by scientific research to create inventions, technologies, and products. Dr. Bovik was given this award for his work on neuroscience-

Dr. Som Mukhopadhyay publishes chapter in "Neurotoxicity of Metals", an Advances in Neurobiology book series

October 25, 2017

Dr. Som Mukhopadhyay published a book chapter entitled "Inherited Disorders of Manganese Metabolism" in the Advances in Neurobiology book series. This chapter reviews what is known about two inherited genetic disorders of manganese metabolism and their role in disease and neuropathology. Read more about Dr. Som Mukhopadhyay publishes chapter in "Neurotoxicity of Metals", an Advances in Neurobiology book series

Dr. Mary Hayhoe receives the 2017 Davida Teller Award from the Vision Sciences Society

June 8, 2017

Each year the Vision Science Society bestows the Davida Teller Award to an outstanding woman vision scientist with a strong history of mentoring. This award was established in honor of Davida Teller, an exceptional scientist, mentor and colleague, who for many years led the field of visual development.

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Dr. James Sulzer and Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock publish in Nature Reviews Neuroscience

March 2, 2017

Dr. James Sulzer and Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock published a review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience entitled "Closed-loop brain training: the science of neurofeedback". Neurofeedback is a psychophysiological procedure in which online feedback of neural activation is provided to the participant for the purpose of self-regulation. Learning control over specific neural substrates has been shown to change specific behaviours. As a progenitor of brain–machine interfaces, neurofeedback has provided a novel way to investigate brain function and neuroplasticity. This Review examines the

Jagruti Pattadkal receives HHMI International Student Research Fellowship

January 18, 2017

Jagruti Pattadkal, INS graduate student in Dr. Nicholas Priebe's lab, received an international Student Research Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for her research proposal entitled "Linking population activity to behavior in primate area MT". Jagruti was one of 20 applicants, selected from a pool over three hundred forty, that were selected by a panel of top scientists and graduate educators bases on their high potential to make innovative contributions to science in the future. Jagruti is the second

INS Faculty Eyal Seidemann, Bill Geisler and Boris Zemelman receive NIH U01 Cooperative Research Grant

December 8, 2016

Eyal Seidemann, Bill Geisler and Boris Zemelman receive NIH U01 Cooperative Research Grant entitled “An Optical-Genetic Toolbox for Reading and Writing Neural Population Codes in Functional Maps”.

The goal of this research project will be to develop and optimize an optical-genetic toolbox for reading and writing neural population codes in functional maps of awake, higher mammals. This will be accomplished by developing a new genetic method that will provide long-term expression of transgenes in primates with cell-type and activity- dependent specificity. A two-