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Beth Buffalo elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
Beth Buffalo has been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. The Washington State Academy of Sciences provides expert scientific and engineering analysis to inform public policy-making, and works to increase the role and visibility of science in the State of Washington. This year, seven UW faculty were elected to the WSAS. Beth joins…
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Chip Asbury, Adrienne Fairhall and Beth Buffalo promoted to Professor
Three of our PBIO colleagues, Chip Asbury, Adrienne Fairhall and Beth Buffalo have been promoted to full professor, effective July 1, 2017. Congratulations, Chip, Adrienne and Beth!
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UW-led team awarded $1M bioelectronics innovation prize
Chet Moritz and Greg Horwitz are part of an international team awarded $1 million for their work on a wireless implantable device that can control nerve activity. For the GlaxoSmithKline Bioelectronics Innovation Challenge, the team is working on an implantable device that could help restore bladder function for people with spinal cord injuries or millions of others…
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Calcium channels team up to activate excitable cells
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/uoc–cct051816.php
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John Tuthill joins PBIO as our newest faculty member
John Tuthill, PhD, joined the department earlier this year as a tenure track assistant professor. John studied biology and anthropology at Swarthmore and after working as a technician at the University of Montana and Universidad de Buenos Aires, he entered the Janelia Farm/University of Chicago graduate program. There, he studied motion perception in Drosophila. After…
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What zipped by? Motion detection in retinas
Electrical crosstalk between retinal cells processes information to help render the images our eyes behold – UW Health Sciences NewsBeat
Lectures/Seminars
Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong