News and Awards

Wei Ji Ma has won the Cognitive Science Society's Elman Prize for Scientific Achievemnt and Community Building. 

Carla Golden (Postdoctoral Researcher, Constantinople Lab) has been awarded a BRAIN Initiative NRSA from the NIMH.

Karin Morandell (Postdoctoral Researcher, Schneider Lab) has been awarded a Postdoc Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Rodrigo Triana Del Rio (Postdoctoral Researcher, LeDoux Lab) has been awarded a Leon Levy Fellowship in Neuroscience.

Corey Baimel (Postdoctoral Researcher, Carter Lab) was awarded a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowship in Biomedical Science.

Christine Constantinople received the 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Award

Cristina Savin has received the 2019-2020 Google Faculty Research Award

Justin Lieber (Postdoctoral Researcher, Movshon Lab) has been awarded a Leon Levy Fellowship in Neuroscience.

Christine Constantinople has received the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience

Wei Ji Ma has won the Golden Dozen Teaching Award in recognition of his excellentundergraduate teaching skills.

Eero Simoncelli has been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Margarita Kaplow has won the Golden Dozen Teaching Award in recognition of her excellent undergraduate teaching skills. 

John Rinzel has won the IBT Mathematical Neuroscience Award at Braintech 2019 for significantly advancing our understanding of the neural mechanisms of perception, behavior and thought through the application of mathematical analysis and theoretical modeling.

Distinct spatiotemporal mechanisms underlie extra-classical receptive field modulation in macaque V1 microcircuits.

(Henry CA, Jazayeri M, Shapley RM, Hawken MJ)

Contrast response in a comprehensive network model of macaque V1 microcircuits.

(Chariker L, Shapley R, Young LS)

A Causal Network Analysis of Neuromodulation in the Mood Processing Network.

(Shaoyu Qiao, J. Isaac Sedillo, Kevin A. Brown, Breonna Ferrentino, Bijan Pesaran)

A unified framework of online learning algorithms for training recurrent neural networks, Journal of Machine Learning Research.

(Marschall, O., Cho, K, Savin, C.)

Parietal Cortex Is Required for the Integration of Acoustic Evidence.
(Yao JD, Gimoto J, Constantinople CM, Sanes DH)

Humans incorporate trial-to-trial working memory uncertainty into rewarded decisions.

(Maija Honig, Wei Ji Ma, Daryl Fougnie)

Development of a neural interface for high-definition, long-term recording in rodents and nonhuman primates.

(Chia-Han Chiang, Sang Min Won, Amy L. Orsborn, Ki Jun Yu, Michael Trumpis, Brinnae Bent, Charles Wang, Yeguang Xue, Seunghwan Min, Virginia Woods, Chunxiu Yu, Bong Hoon Kim, Sung Bong Kim, Rizwan Huq, Jinghua Li, Kyung Jin Seo, Flavia Vitale, Andrew Richardson, Hui Fang, Yonggang Huang, Kenneth Shepard, Bijan Pesaran, John A. Rogers, Jonathan Viventi)

Confidence reports in decision-making with multiple alternatives violates the Bayesian confidence hypothesis.

(Hsin-Hung Li, Wei Ji Ma)

Autophagy coupled to translation is required for long-term memory.

(Pandey K., Yu X.W., Steinmetz A., Alberini C.M.)

A role for CIM6P/IGF2 receptor in memory consolidation and enhancement.

(Yu X.W., Pandey K., Katzman A.C., Alberini C.M.)

Early life experiences selectively mature learning and memory abilities.

(Bessières B.*, Travaglia A.*, Mowery T.M., Zhang X., Alberini C.M.)

Brooke Holey (Schneider Lab) has been awarded a predoctoral NRSA from the NIDCD.

Jaelin Rippe (LeDoux Lab) has received the Hillary Anne Citrin Memorial Award for Outstanding Honor Thesis

Ionatan Kuperwajs (Ma Lab) has received an NSF GRFP award.

Muhaned Mohamed (Klann Lab) has been awarded a predoctoral National Research Service Award. 

Erica Nebet (Tsien Lab) has been awarded the The Sherrington Award for Neural Science Undergraduate Research.

Careen Foord (Hartley Lab) has been awarded the Cajal Neural Science Thesis Prize.

Careen Foord (Hartley Lab) has been awarded the Neural Science Theses Prize.

Zanetta Kovbasyuk (Carrasco Lab) has been awarded the Samuel M. Feldman Thesis Prize. 

Erica Nebet has been awarded the Albert Borgman/Phi Beta Kappa Thesis Prize, presented for best honors thesis in Science.