Angelo Forli, a postdoctoral fellow in the Yartsev lab, has won a 2024 Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). The award, which is supported by The Gruber Foundation, recognizes up to three early-career neuroscientists for outstanding research and educational pursuit in an international setting. The award includes a $25,000 prize and travel to the SfN annual meeting, where the award will be presented in October.
Forli received the award for identifying neural mechanisms underlying navigation in groups of freely-flying bats as they forage, using innovative tools he developed to track the bats while wirelessly recording their neural activity.
SfN’s press release said, “Forli’s groundbreaking study is the first to identify a neurobiological mechanism behind collective spatial behavior and reveal how brain mechanisms control naturalistic group behavior in animals.”
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