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Hacking the Brain to Reveal, Repair, & Rebuild
Seattle Arts & Lectures will sponsor an interdisciplinary lectures series on advances in neuroscience that are revealing the inner workings of the brain. The lectures are being presented in partnership with the University of Washington Alumni Association and The Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Washington and were organized by Adrienne Fairhall on…
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PBio ranks second in the nation in grant funding
According to the 2013 ACDP analysis of grant funding, the UW Department of Physiology & Biophysics ranked second in total grant funding among Physiology Departments nationwide. During the 2013 calendar, PBIO faculty received almost $11 million in grant support. Based on the same survey, the department ranked second in 2012 and first in 2011.
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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…
Dissertation Defense
Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong