Graduate Training in Neuroscience
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N&B faculty member Adrian KC Lee (Speech &
Hearing Sciences, Institute for Learning and Brain
Sciences) just received a prestigious Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Young Investigator Research Program Award
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/afoo-aag011112.php
This Award is for new researchers who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. His AFOSR project is to develop "An integrated neuroscience and engineering approach to classifying human brain-states."
The work of N&B student Stephanie Furrer on the mechanism of spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 is featured on the cover of this month's special issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Journal of Neuroscience, Nov. 2011 . See our Blog.
N&B Student William Marrs in lab of Nephi Stella identifies a novel mechanism controlling levels of an endogenous cannabinoid in the brain.
Nature Neuroscience, 2010 and press release. Also, see our Blog.
Research of N&B Program Labs Featured in the Wall Street Journal
The labs of David Raible and Ed Rubel are using zebrafish as a model system to identify drugs and genes that may influence damage and regeneration of sensory hair cells of the human inner ear. N&B graduate student Julie Harris has contributed importantly to this work.
N&B Faculty Fetz and Perlmutter create a brain-computer interface to restore movement in a paralyzed monkey.
Nature, 2008 and reported in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, October, 2008.