Dr. Harold Zakon was awarded the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The mission of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is to promote academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany. The award is granted in recognition of a scientist whose...
Dr. Jarrod Lewis Peacock, Dr. Ian Nauhaus and Dr. Boris Zemelman are among the forty-five new research teams from across the University of Texas System that have been awarded $100,000 seed grants each as part of a UT System initiative to jump-start multi-disciplinary and innovative research on the human brain. The...
Dr. Laura Colgin received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for her project entitled “Role of slow and fast gamma rhythms during sleep”. CAREER awards are one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards given in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent...
Drs. Nicholas Priebe and Boris Zemelman published and article in Neuron entitled "Local Integration Accounts for Weak Selectivity of Mouse Neocortical Parvalbumin Interneurons" that was selected to be featured on the Neuron website with a video abstract. The research investigates the role that input from excitatory and inhibitory neurons play in computations...
Dr. Dan Johston was a visiting lecturer for the Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity and Memory (CAMP) courseMemory (CAMP) course, hosted by the National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore India. CAMP is an intensive, 15 day course, during which graduate students and postdocs from around the world are trained in theoretical and...