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Greg Horwitz promoted to Associate Professor
Effective July 1, Greg Horwitz has been promoted to Associate Professor of Physiology & Biophysics with tenure. Greg is also Core Staff member of the Washington National Primate Research Center, where his laboratory studies the neural basis of color vision, using gene delivery techniques to manipulate components of the visual system. Congratulations, Greg!
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Beth Buffalo leads DARPA-funded program to restore memory loss
Beth Buffalo will lead the University of Washington team in a multi-center $22.5 million, four-year effort to develop next-generation technologies to restore memory function in individuals who suffer from memory loss. The project, which is in support of President Obama’s BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative, will combine research on the basic mechanisms…
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Fred Rieke and Adrienne Fairhall elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Congratulations to Fred and Adrienne on their election to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. Eighteen new members of WSAS were elected this year, 10 from the UW. The WSAS was established in 2005 by Governor Christine Gregoire to provide expert scientific and engineering analysis to inform public policy making in Washington and to increase…
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Brainy Plays
Three PBIO faculty members, Eb Fetz, Adrienne Fairhall and Chet Moritz, have collaborated with local playwrights to produce short plays that examine the impact of neural enhancements on what it means to be human. What does it mean to be human? Teams of five scientists and five local playwrights offer insights into that question in…
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Announcing new UW Institute for Neuroengineering (UWIN)
Adrienne Fairhall and Tom Daniel (Biology) are to co-direct a new UW Institute for Neuroengineering (UWIN), thanks to a recent multimillion dollar award from the Washington Research Foundation. One of four new centers to be established on UW campus, the Washington Research Foundation’s mission is to redistribute funds raised through UW patents to research endeavors…
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This is Your Brain on Art
Read about Eb Fetz’s latest collaboration with non-scientists in DXARTS, an interdisciplinary degree granting center designed to support the emergence of a new generation of hybrid artists. Eb and two faculty members from DXARTS (an artist and an art historian) taught a new course intended to introduce the basics of neuroscience to stimulate new ideas…
Dissertation Defense
Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong