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NBIO Postdoctoral Scholar and Affiliate Professor part of consortium that has mapped the complete connectome of the fly brain
The synaptic connectivity of neurons is fundamental to how they function. Extracting this information for entire brains is an extremely challenging task. Today, the largest map of synaptic connectivity between neurons has been published in a special issue at Nature. 12 papers describe and analyze the first whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly produced by…
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Assistant Professor Astra Bryant receives prestigious NIAID New Innovators Award
We are thrilled to announce that Assistant Professor Astra Bryant has received the NIAID New Innovators Award. This award ($1.5 million over 5 years) is given to early stage investigators of “exceptional creativity who propose novel, original and insightful research concepts with the potential to produce a major impact, test scientific paradigms, or advance key…
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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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Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong
