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September 27, 2024

A warm welcome to our new PhD students!
Please welcome our Neuroscience PhD Program incoming class of 2024.

September 24, 2024

Angelo Forli wins Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award
Congratulations to Angelo Forli, a postdoctoral fellow in the Yartsev lab!

September 23, 2024

Doris Tsao wins António Champalimaud Vision Award
Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty member Doris Tsao!

September 16, 2024

Markita Landry named Laureate of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty member Markita Landry for being named the 2024 Laureate in Chemical Sciences!

September 12, 2024

Helen Bateup part of team awarded $12M to uncover genetic pathways in autism
Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty member Helen Bateup!

September 5, 2024

Neuroscience Department opens with ribbon cutting and party
Read about our opening celebration, held at the picnic to welcome our new Neuroscience PhD students.

August 20, 2024

Neuroscience Department opening party
Join us to celebrate on August 26!

July 25, 2024

Michael Yartsev named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Congratulations to Neuroscience department member Michael Yartsev!

July 17, 2024

Postdocs Lamiae Abdeladim and Natsumi Komatsu win Burroughs Wellcome Career Awards at the Scientific Interface
Abdeladim (Adesnik lab) and Komatsu (Landry lab) are among only 12 winners nationwide!

June 3, 2024

2024 Q&A with the Neuroscience PhD Program graduates
Congratulations to our recent and upcoming graduates! Read our Q&A with some of them.

April 8, 2024

Why does COVID-19 make you sneeze?
New research from the Bautista lab, led by Neuroscience PhD student Sonali Mali.

February 20, 2024

Source: Berkeley News
Nine young faculty members receive prized Sloan Research Fellowships
Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty Preeya Khanna!

February 12, 2024

Source: Berkeley News
For new professor, psychedelics and octopuses may hold keys to the human mind
Gül Dölen is known for her research on how psychedelics affect "critical periods" and learning.

February 1, 2024

Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
World-Renowned Neuroscientist Doctor Gül Dölen to Join UC Berkeley Faculty

Dölen will join HWNI, Psychology, and the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics.

January 30, 2024

UC Santa Barbara News
Berkeley Neuroscience PhD alum Emily Jacobs leads new initiative to advance study of women’s brain health

Jacobs directs UC’s Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative, which she wrote about in Nature.

August 14, 2023

Solving medical mysteries: PhD alum and neuro-ophthalmologist Aubrey Gilbert
Our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Aubrey Gilbert, Northern California neuro-ophthalmology lead for Kaiser.

August 3, 2023

Berkeley News
Bat study reveals how the brain is wired for collective behavior

The Yartsev lab has found that neurons that encode location also represent the social environment.

A warm welcome to our new PhD students!

We are very excited to welcome our incoming class of 2023 into the Berkeley Neuroscience community and to support them in their scientific development. If you see them around campus, be sure to give them a wave!

July 6, 2023

JCC Fund
Postdoc Mark Plitt awarded Jane Coffin Childs Fund for Medical Research fellowship

Congratulations to Mark Plitt, a postdoc in the lab of Yvette Fisher!

June 5, 2023

2023 Q&A with the Neuroscience PhD Program graduates
Congratulations to our recent and upcoming graduates! Read our Q&A with some of them.