INS faculty member Al Bovik is the recipient of Television’s highest honor, an individual Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development from the Television Academy (formerly the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences). He will receive his Emmy…
Researchers in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Johnston have recently published two papers with future research implications. Matlab-based automated patch clamp system for awake behaving mice. Niraj S Desai, Jennifer J Siegel, William Taylor, Raymond A Chitwood, Daniel Johnston Journal of Neurophysiology Jun 2015, DOI: 10.1152 / jn.00025.2015 and Trace Eyeblink Conditioning…
Dr. Darrin Brager, in collaboration with Dr. Boris Zemelman, was awarded a new 5-year NIH R01 grant to study ion channels and dendrites in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome.
The University of Texas System Regents today approved the creation of a virtual institute to help UT neuroscientists compete for federal and private grants and dramatically advance research of the human brain. Regents voted unanimously to appropriate $20 million over…
Dr. Alison Preston was interviewed as part of a story KEYE did on memory decline and how to boost your memory (excerpt) “Our memories start to decline at the age of 25,” said Dr. Alison Preston with the Center for…
Dr. Ila R Fiete has published the following paper in Nature Neuroscience. “Specific evidence of low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics in grid cells”, Yoon, KJ, Buice, MA, Barry, C, Hayman, R, Burgess, N, Fiete, IR (2013)
Featured in an article for UT’s College of Natural Science’s Texas Science: News, Dr. Poldrack details a year long adventure whereby he is taking the Qualified Self, and his own brain to the next level of understanding.
Dr. Kristen Harris will be a presenter at the 2013 World Science Festival in the sold out event Friday May 31st, 2013 (8:00p – 9:30p) at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College under the title Architects of the Mind: A…
