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UW Allies
The UW Allies program serves graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in basic science labs at UW. Allies are faculty volunteers who provide trainees with support during conflict with mentors and lab mates, assistance in navigating institutional barriers to success, and connection with institutional and community services. Allies stand in solidarity with trainees, so they don’t…
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Rainier Scholars inaugural collaboration with UW labs
The departments of PBIO, Biological Structure, and Pharmacology were thrilled to partner with Rainier Scholars to host 11 high school students in our laboratories this summer. This program, led by Claudia Moreno and Fred Rieke, provided opportunities for these students to receive hands-on experience in biomedical research. The students were incredible, and it was wonderful…
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Oscar Vivas, Research Assistant Professor, receives MIRA award from National Institutes of Health
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has recognized Dr. Vivas as one of the nation’s highly talented and promising investigators to receive a 2021 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA). The award will provide five years of significant funding for Dr. Vivas’ laboratory’s research. The goals of the MIRA program are to provide investigators…
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Social Justice
On the anniversary of the murdering of George Floyd, our department renews its commitment to eradicate racism from our classroom, laboratories, and from every corner of our society. We work together to build a more equitable and inclusive world with social justice for all. We strive to create a world where all people, independent of…
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Sweta Agrawal, a post-doc in the Tuthill Lab, was recently selected for the Leading Edge Program
https://www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
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New Allen/UW postdoctoral fellowship program
We are glad to announce a new joint postdoctoral fellowship program co-hosted by the Allen Institute and UW partners, the Computational Neuroscience Center and the eScience Institute. The Shanahan Family Foundation has provided support for these fellowships, which aim to bring graduates with training in quantitative disciplines into neuroscience, and to immerse them in exploration…
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Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong