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Albert Berger appointed Emeritus Professor
After 33 years on the PBIO faculty, Albert Berger has joined the ranks of Emeritus Professor, effective July 1, 2011. Albert joined the department in 1978, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1980 and to Professor in 1985. Trained in chemical engineering (Bachelors degree from Cornell and PhD from Princeton), he worked as a research…
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2011 Physiology & Biophysics Retreat
On September 14-15, the Department held its annual retreat (officially the H.D. Patton Symposium) at the Sleeping Lady Resort in Leavenworth, WA. Presentations by faculty, students and postdoctoral fellows and a poster session introduced their latest research results. Our featured speaker was Paul Wiggins from the UW Department of Physics. The evening featured skits by…
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Sullivan lab publishes Nature Neuroscience paper on homeostatic synaptic scaling in Alzheimer’s Disease
Jane Sullivan and her colleagues describe a new function of presenilin-1 in their paper in the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience. Mutations in presinilin-1 are known to cause Familial Alzheimer’s Disease but the mechanism has remained elusive. This paper provides evidence that presenilin mutations impair the ability of neurons to recalibrate to changes in network…
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Allen Myron Scher 1921-2011
Allen M. Scher, Emeritus Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, died May 12, 2011. He was 90. His specialties were regulation of blood pressure and the physical basis of the electrocardiogram. Dr. Scher graduated with a B.A. in English from Yale, was decorated for his service in the Pacific theatre in the Marine Corps in WWII,…
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Adrienne Fairhall leads new NIH training grant in Computational Neuroscience
Adrienne Fairhall will serve as the principal investigator on a new Computational Neuroscience training grant from NIH. The grant will initiate two new programs. A two-year sequence in computational neuroscience for undergraduate students will feature a common core curriculum (including new courses), required mentored laboratory research, and a series of faculty seminars. The PhD graduate…
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Eb Fetz named Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
Eberhard Fetz is a pioneer in the field of neuroprosthetics and brain-computer interface research. He discovered that single cells in the brain can learn to permanently change their firing behaviour if positive consequences (reward) follow a particular firing rate. In healthy humans and patients with brain disease this discovery pioneered self-regulation of brain activity and…
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Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong