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Announcing the PBIO 2023 Newsletter
We are delighted to share the 2023 end-of-year departmental newsletter with you. Click on the image below to view the full newsletter in your browser.
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Andrés Barría receives grant from Washington Research Foundation to support research of Alzheimer’s and other disorders
Press release provided by Washington Research Foundation Washington Research Foundation (WRF) has awarded $250,000 to enable Physiology and Biophysics Professor Andrés Barría, Ph.D., to screen for new compounds that could be further developed for the treatment of neurological disorders and synaptopathies including Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. Barría used a previous grant of $50,000 from WRF…
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Two upcoming PBio faculty papers: One examines neural sampling code; the other examines sympathetic motor neuron dysfunction
PBio is pleased to share two upcoming faculty papers! Dr. Edgar Walker is an author on a recent paper that explores neural sampling code to quantitatively test generative models of the brain: Taking the neural sampling code very seriously: A data-driven approach for evaluating generative models of the visual system is available on OpenReview. Drs.…
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Remembering Professor Emeritus Peter Schwindt
July 7, 1940 – September 28, 2023 Peter Schwindt was an exceptional scientist who served the department from his graduate student days until he retired in 2000. Peter, with his long-term collaborator Wayne Crill and many trainees, performed pioneering studies using two-electrode voltage-clamp on spinal motoneurons in situ. Those studies provided fundamental insight into mechanisms…
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George Gomori Award from The Histochemical Society
Dr. Denis Baskin, a Joint Professor Emeritus of our department, has been awarded the George Gomori Award from The Histochemical Society, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of histochemistry and cytochemistry. Congratulations on receiving this honor Dr. Baskin!
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Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong
