November 2026 Newsletter

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University of Washington

Honors and Awards

Congratulations to Ruyan Li (mentor: Jeffery Herron and Jesse Miles) and Lloyd Son (mentor: Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad) who were both selected as 2026-27 Levinson Emerging Scholars at the UW.

CNT members at SDSU, together with NanoFAB.SDSU Industrial Consortium, will hold a half day symposium titled “Intersection of neuroscience and AI – lessons from theoretical and computational neuroscience on scaling up and resources efficiency for next-generation AI system architectures” on November 5, 2026 (San Diego, CA).
Neuroethics 2027, April 7-9, 2027 (Madrid. Spain and virtual).
10th Annual Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Conference, July 26-29, 2027 (Edinburgh, UK)

CNT co-director Chet Moritz discusses his recent work using transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation on the Research Works Podcast.

Faucher, C., Tang, W., Collins, T., Fu, X., Kassegne, S., Adibi, S. and Islam, M., Resolving the precursor-to-carbon transformation in PEGDA: A synergistic reactive molecular dynamics and evolved-gas analysis study. Carbon Lett. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-026-01136-0.
Vargo, S.M., Hong, N., Hatanaka, G., Jain, V., Pan, H., Wang, R.K., Bair, W., Yazdan-Shahmorad, A. and Chamanzar, M., Towards maximizing optical access through Smart Dura. J. Neural Eng. 23 056036.
Henderson, R.P., Dang, V., Trinh, M.L., Batista, C.M., McGiffin, M.N., Samejima, S., Moritz, C.T. and Mondello, S.E., Comparing optogenetic and electrical spinal cord stimulation for forelimb recovery after cervical spinal cord injury in rats. Neurotrauma Reports. 2026;7. doi:10.1177/2689288X261494886.

Assistant Professor 1, Neuroscience, Columbia Univ. (New York, NY)
Assistant Professor 2, Teaching in Neuroscience, Dept. Psychology, UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)
Assistant Professor 3, Bioethics and Humanities, Univ. Washington (Seattle, WA)
Assistant/Associate Professor 1, Computational Neuroscience, Dept. Neuroscience, Univ. Texas (Richardson, TX)
Assistant/Associate Professor 2, Dept. Neuroscience, Northwestern Univ. (Chicago, IL)
Assistant/Associate Professor 3, Center for Neuroscience, UC Davis (Davis, CA)
Assistant/Associate Professor 4, Dept. Neuroscience, Univ. Texas (Austin, TX)
Assistant/Associate Professor 5, Dept. Neuroscience, Yale Univ. (New Haven, CT)
Associate/Full Professor, Dept. Biomedical Eng. (Neuroengineering), Univ. Texas (Austin, TX)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Neural Circuits and Movement, Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis, TN)