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2023 Boynton Lecture
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Rachel Wong has been selected as the 2023 Boynton Lecturer. Rachel has made numerous contributions to vision science and has a stellar mentoring and training record. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington in Seattle. She was a Paul Allen…
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Weill Neurohub Fellow
Congratulations to the 2023-2025 Weill Neurohub Fellows, Marina Pavlov (Reh Lab) and Carlee Toddes (Golden Lab)! We are very proud to have you in our department and wish you every success! Read about Weill Neurohub here.
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Andrés Barría named Assistant Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Research and Graduate Education
P.Bio professor Andrés Barría has been named the first Assistant Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Research and Graduate Education for the School of Medicine. Andrés has worked to push social justice initiatives since he came to the UW in 2005. He was a member of the UW Faculty Council on Race, Equity,…
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P.Bio trainees awarded NSF fellowships
Two P.Bio trainees, Patrick Zhang (Fairhall/Walker lab) and Ryan Ressmeyer (Horwitz lab), were awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. UW’s Computational Neuroscience Center provides a summary of their work.
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Chet Moritz featured by UW Medicine for transcutaneous spinal stimulation research
Chet Moritz, PhD, joint professor in P.Bio, Rehab Medicine, and Electrical & Computer Engineering, has been featured in a UW Medicine article regarding his research on spinal stimulation.
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Postdoctoral scholar Leenoy Meshulam work on octopus sleep patterns featured in Nature
Leenoy Meshulam, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in the department and the UW Computational Neuroscience Center, is a lead author on a new Nature paper. The paper details research she conducted with Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology where she was a guest of the Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program. Her work was recently featured in a…

