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WANPRC Neuroscience Unit led by NBIO researchers is unraveling mysteries of the brain
Neurobiology & Biophysics boasts a large contingent of researchers at the Washington National Primate Research Center (WANPRC), which is one of seven nonhuman primate research centers nationwide. Six of the eight Core Scientists in the Neuroscience Unit are NBIO faculty members. Recently, WANPRC published a news story featuring Greg Horwitz, Dennis Dacey, Anitha Pasupathy, and…
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Rachel Wong, PhD, receives 2024 Joram Piatigorsky Basic Science Award
Professor Rachel Wong, PhD, received the Joram Piatigorsky Basic Science Award on September 11, 2024. Dr. Joram Piatigorsky and his wife Mrs. Lona Piatigorsky have established a fund to award annually eye and vision scientists doing basic research exploring little-studied species and imaginative ideas. Managed by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH),…
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Tiny treadmills offer big insights into the adaptive motor control in fruit flies
Researchers in the lab of John Tuthill, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Biophysics, are using fruit flies on miniature treadmills to study how the nervous system enables animals to move in an unpredictable and complex world. Brandon G. Pratt, a recent PhD graduate of the department, engineered the small-scale machines from inexpensive parts to study…
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Neuroscientists visit UW for NEUROAI in Seattle meeting
In August, the UW Computational Neuroscience Center hosted the annual gathering of the Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neuroscience, followed by the NeuroAI in Seattle meeting, co-organized with the Allen Institute. Featuring speakers from UW and the Allen, and from all over the country as well as Canada, this meeting showcased research at the intersection of…
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Assistant Professor Sam Golden’s lab featured on King5 News for research on opioid addiction
King 5 News visited Dr. Sam Golden’s lab in the Department of Biological Structure to interview him about his research into opioid addiction. Researchers at the Golden Lab are using machine learning to analyze videos of fentanyl-addicted mice. A grant from the National Institutes of Health is funding their research, which could lead to a…
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Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong
