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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

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!

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.

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.

May 9, 2023

Berkeley News
Marla Feller elected to National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Marla Feller!

April 3, 2023

McGovern Institute - MIT
Yang Dan named winner of the 2023 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience

Yang Dan wins Scolnick Prize for key discoveries about the neurobiology of sleep.

March 30, 2023

Berkeley News
Yvette Fisher receives AAA C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy
Congratulations to Neuroscience faculty member Yvette Fisher!

January 18, 2023

Overcoming obstacles: PhD alum Tara Tracy seeks new approaches to treat Alzheimer’s disease
Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Tara Tracy, assistant professor at the Buck Institute.

October 31, 2022

UC Berkeley alum Greg Dunn celebrates the brain through art
Read our Q&A with alum Greg Dunn, a renowned artist with a PhD in Neuroscience.

July 27, 2022

Mapping and mentoring: PhD alum Adeen Flinker uses rare data to study speech and language
Read our Q&A with alum Adeen Flinker, assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

June 3, 2022

2022 Q&A with the Neuroscience PhD Program graduates
Congratulations to our 2022 graduates! Read our Q&A with some of them.

May 26, 2022

Adolescent Development of Biological Rhythms in Female Rats: Estradiol Dependence and Effects of Combined Contraceptives

Front Physiol. 2021 Nov 5;12:752363. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2021.752363. eCollection 2021.

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April 22, 2022

Sequential Pathway Inference for Multimodal Neuroimaging Analysis

Stat. 2022 Dec;11(1):e433. doi: 10.1002/sta4.433. Epub 2021 Oct 15.

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March 29, 2022

QB3
From Kansas to Mission Bay: An interview with Professional in Residence Timothy Day
Read a Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Timothy Day, co-founder and CSO of DNALite Therapeutics.

March 4, 2022

Investigating the Link Between Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Cognitive Control in Bilinguals Using Laplacian-Transformed Event Related Potentials

Neurobiol Lang (Camb). 2021 Dec 23;2(4):605-627. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00056. eCollection 2021.

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February 23, 2022

The Role of Executive Function in Shaping Reinforcement Learning

Curr Opin Behav Sci. 2021 Apr;38:66-73. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.10.003. Epub 2020 Nov 14.

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February 21, 2022

Müller Glia in Retinal Development: From Specification to Circuit Integration

Front Neural Circuits. 2022 Feb 4;15:815923. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2021.815923. eCollection 2021.

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February 3, 2022

Sex differences in the genetic architecture underlying resilience in AD

Alzheimers Dement. 2021 Dec;17 Suppl 3:e055010. doi: 10.1002/alz.055010.

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