Month October 2013

McKnightFoundation

McKnightFoundation   Deadline: 2014 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards ​October 1, 2013The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience supports innovative research designed to bring science closer to the day when diseases of the brain can be accurately diagnosed, prevented, and…

Dr. Dan Johnston publishes in Nature Neuroscience

Dr. Dan Johnston and his graduate student Sachin Vaidya have published a research article in Nature Neuroscience entitled “Temporal synchrony and gamma to theta power conversion in the dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons”. This work reveals the role of dendritic…

Dr. Alison Preston publishes in Current Biology

Dr. Alison Preston recently published two papers in Current Biology.  A review article entitled “Interplay of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex in memory” and an empirical paper entitled “Decoding the brain’s algorithm for categorization from its neuronal implementation”

Kevin Bieri receives a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA award

Kevin Bieri, MD/PhD student in the Colgin Lab, received a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA award from NIMH for his project titled “Information Routing in the Hippocampus via Gamma Oscillations”.  This project will use electrophysiological recordings in freely behaving rats to determine…

Dr. Marie Monfils publishes paper in Learning & Memory

Dr. Marie Monfils published a paper in Learning & Memory entitled “Learned together, extinguished apart: Reducing fear to complex stimuli”(In press). This work examines how compound memories are encoded and extinguished, and reveals important implications for treatment of post-traumatic stress…

Dr. Kim Raab-Graham receives pilot grant from INIA

Dr. Kim Raab-Graham received a grant from the Integrated Neuroscience Initiative Consortium on Alcoholism to support her pilot project that will study the potential role of changes in mTOR dependent protein synthesis as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.  These studies will…