- David Bell (lab of UW CNT faculty member Adrienne Fairhall) presented “Discovering plasticity rules that organize and maintain neural circuit” at the COSYNE meeting in Montreal, Canada.
- Scott Sterrett (lab of UW CNT faculty member Adrienne Fairhall) presented “Recurrent neural networks balance sensory- and memory-guided policies for spatial foraging” at the APS March Meeting in Anaheim, CA.
- Katherine Perks (UW neuroscience grad student in the lab of UW CNT faculty member Amy Orsborn) won a travel fellowship to attend the Neural Control of Movement 2025 conference in Panama City, Panama, where she will give a talk.
- CNT co-director Chet Moritz will be a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Aging, Innovation & Rehabilitation, May 1-2, 2025, in Toronto, Canada.
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- California Neurotechnology Conference, April 26, 2025 (San Diego, CA)
- Society for the Neural Control of Movement Annual Meeting, April 28-May 2, 2025 (Panama City, Panama)
- 1st Annual Meeting for The Society for Philosophy & Neuroscience. May 1-3, 2025 (St. Louis, MO)
- Sensation and Action 2025 Lake Conference, May 4-8, 2025 (Thun, Switzerland)
- RehabWeek, May 12-16, 2025 (Chicago, IL)
- Motor Control: Spinal Circuits and Beyond, June 17-20, 2025 (St. Andrews, Scotland)
- UK Neural Computation 2025, July 9-11, 2025 (London, England)
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UW CNT faculty member
Andrew Ko speaks with NPR about how stimulation of the vagus nerve may help treat people with autoimmune diseases.
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The CNT participated in
2025 Brain Awareness Week with presentations for local elementary schools and at the Pacific Science Center for
BrainFest 2025.
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- Kasdin, J.*, Duffy, A.*, Nadler, N., Raha, A., Fairhall, A.L., Stachenfeld, K. and Gadagkar, V. Natural behavior is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement, Nature, 2025.
- Samejima, S., Malik, R.N., Ge, J., Rempel, L., Cao, K., Desai, S., Shackleton, C., Kyani, A., Sarikhani, P., D’Amico, J.M. and Krassioukov, A.V. Cardiovascular safety of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation in cervical spinal cord injury. Neurotherapeutics, 2025 Mar;22(2):e00528.
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RECENT PAPERS OF INTEREST
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- Recent advances in intracortical neural interfaces for freely moving animals: Technologies and applications, Engineering, 2025.
- First-in-human experience performing high-resolution cortical mapping using a novel microelectrode array containing 1024 electrodes, J. Neural Eng., 2025.
- Motor somatotopy impacts imagery strategy success in human intracortical brain–computer interfaces, J. Neural Eng., 2025.
- Sampling representational plasticity of simple imagined movements across days enables long-term neuroprosthetic control, Cell, 2025.
- Overcoming failure: improving acceptance and success of implanted neural interfaces, Bioelectron. Med., 2025.
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- Director, Texas Institute for Therapeutic Neurotechnology, Univ. Texas (Austin, TX).
- Career Instructor, Human Physiology Neuroscience Focus, Univ. Oregon (Eugene, OR).
- Pre-College Instructor, Introduction to Neuroscience, Columbia Univ. (New York, NY)
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To include news items and announcements in the monthly newsletter, please contact CNT Executive and Education Director
Eric H. Chudler.
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