Announcement Yartsev wins Rising Star Award from Penn Medicine’s Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences PHILADELPHIA—The Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences (MINS) in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania announced that Michael…barbaraApril 14, 2020
Research Discovery High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals Electrical and chemical signals flash through our brains constantly as we move through the world,…barbaraMarch 19, 2020
Profile How joy and wide-ranging curiosity leads to neurobiology tools for new types of questions “I’m basically a microscopist who wants to be a neurobiologist,” says Na Ji from the…barbaraMarch 2, 2020
Research Discovery New study reveals molecular and cellular pathways underlying cognitive inflexibility The Bateup lab found that deleting a gene that causes a neurodevelopmental disorder from dopamine…barbaraFebruary 3, 2020
Alumni Profile Increasing complexity: PhD alum Gautam Agarwal challenges the brain to understand how it works in the real world In this Q&A, Gautam Agarwal, now a research scientist in the Sommer lab, discusses how…barbaraDecember 3, 2019
Research Discovery Babies in the womb may see more than we thought By the second trimester, long before a baby’s eyes can see images, they can detect…barbaraNovember 25, 2019
Research Discovery New model of neural processing could help us understand the brain and create better AI The Sommer lab has developed a model that uses neuronal “spikes” and rhythmic activity to…barbaraNovember 22, 2019
Research Discovery Undergraduate researcher maps brain circuitry and reveals the limitations of a commonly used research method Daniel Cardozo Pinto, a former undergrad in the Lammel lab, is first author on a…barbaraNovember 22, 2019
Announcement Postdocs Delevich and de Jong win NARSAD Young Investigator Grants Congratulations to Berkeley Neuroscience postdoctoral fellows Kristen Delevich (Wilbrecht lab) and Johannes de Jong (Lammel…Cari IrwinOctober 30, 2019