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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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PBIO Acting Instructor Sofia Landi receives Simons Foundation Independence Award
Dr. Sofia Landi, PBIO Acting Instructor and Postdoctoral Scholar in the Buffalo Lab, has been awarded the prestigious Simons Foundation Collaboration on the Global Brain Independence Award. A major focus of Landi’s research at the Buffalo Lab is the circuits underlying the interplay between memory and perception. The award was announced this month by the…
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PBIO Assistant Professor Astra Bryant interviewed by Discover Magazine
PBIO Assistant Professor Astra Bryant was featured in the latest issue of Discover Magazine. According to Bryant, a neuroscientist and parasitologist whose research focuses on the specialized behavioral and physiological responses of soil-transmitted parasitic nematodes, tapeworm larvae, most often associated with the intestinal tract, can migrate to other parts of the body, including the brain.…
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PBIO and BSTR junior faculty participate in UW led tour of Washington State
Astra Bryant, assistant professor of PBIO, and Anna Gillespie, assistant professor of Biological Structure, appear in the UW Insider this week. University of Washington faculty members Bryant and Gillespie took part in the Faculty Field Tour, which organized a multi-day bus tour for new faculty to explore Washington’s diverse communities and natural wonders. Read more about…
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Tuthill Lab publishes two fly connectome papers in Nature
Two complementary papers on the fly connectome have been published in the journal Nature on June 26th. PBIO Associate Professor John C. Tuthill and Wei-Chung Allen Lee of Harvard Medical School in Boston were the senior scientists supervising the research. Congratulations to first authors Ellen Lesser and Tony Azevedo! Read more about this research in the…
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