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⭐ Big news! NBIO Asst. Prof. Astra Bryant has been awarded the McKnight Scholar Award — one of neuroscience's most prestigious honors for early-career researchers showing exceptional promise. Congratulations, Astra! 🧠🎉 bit.ly/4fTzRRh
A great honor! @uw-nbio.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social
Congrats to post-doc Yichen Luo (@camellyc.bsky.social) for receiving a K99 award from NIH! Yichen is investigating the neural control of respiration.
We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Shefin George to the NBIO family! 🎉 As our newest Assistant Professor, Dr. George brings exciting research from Stanford University - exploring how membrane properties regulate mechanotransduction in auditory hair cells. We can't wait to see where her work takes us!
(1/2) 🔬 Two talks you won't want to miss this week, featuring researchers from Janelia Research Campus:
📅 5/27 — Carsen Stringer, PhD (@computingnature.bsky.social)
"Spatial predictive coding in visual cortical neurons"
🍾 🧠 Excited to be kicking off our winter '26 seminar series this Thursday with a talk by Dr. Karen Zito (@ucdaviscns.bsky.social) - "Ion flux-independent NMDAR signaling in bidirectional synaptic plasticity and disease" details -> nbio.uw.edu/event/nbio-p...
🧠 Big week at NBIO! Two great talks this Thursday:
📌 Dr. Jason Shepherd (@jasonsynaptic.bsky.social) — "Virus-Like Mechanisms of Intercellular Synaptic Plasticity"
📌 Trainee Research in Progress: Ryan Ressmeyer (Horwitz Lab) — "Perisaccadic Gating at the Macaque Retinogeniculate Synapse"
🧠 Big news! We're proud to congratulate our department chair, Elizabeth Buffalo (@bethbuffalo.bsky.social) on her election as a 2025 AAAS Fellow! This honor recognizes her outstanding contributions to science and society. We couldn't be more proud! 🎉
#Neuroscience #AAAS #AAASSFellows #UW🍾
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(2/2) 📅 5/28 — Marius Pachitariu, PhD (@marius10p.bsky.social y.social)
"Linking neural representations to behavior using generalization"
