July 2024 Newsletter

A CNT Monthly Newsletter

July 2024

HONORS AND AWARDS

Congratulations to Ilse Dippenaar (Fairhall lab) who was awarded a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship.

UPCOMING EVENTS

NeuroAI in Seattle (August 7-8, 2024; Seattle, WA); registration is now open.
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (October 5-9, 2024; Chicago, IL); registration opens July 9-10, 2024.

CNT IN THE NEWS

CNT faculty member Amy Orsborn recently received an NSF CAREER award to understand how the nervous system responds to the use of neural interfaces.

Top: People at a scientific meeting; Bottom: New REU students.

On June 16, 2024, 11 undergraduate students from around the country arrived in Seattle to take part in the summer CNT Research Experience for Undergraduates program. These students will work in laboratories of CNT members and present their research during a symposium at the University of Washington on August 14.

YSP Reach students engaged in activities.

Shreyas Bulusu, a Henry M. Jackson High School student, describes his experience in the CNT Young Sholars Program-REACH. The 2024 YSP-REACH program starts on July 10 with lectures by CNT members Eric Chudler, Rajesh Rao, Chet Moritz, Azadeh Yazdan and Sara Goering.

CNT faculty member Azadeh Yazdan and Kathy Leach (former UW Bioengineering postdoc research associate) created a new class titled “Leadership in STEM.” The course introduces students to leadership skills and covers topics in leadership styles, effective communication, delivering and receiving feedback, building trust and earning respect.

NEW CNT PUBLICATIONS

Wang, B., Torok, Z., Duffy, A. Bell, D.G., Wongso, S., Velho, T.A.F., Fairhall, A.L., and Lois, C., Unsupervised restoration of a complex learned behavior after large-scale neuronal perturbation. Nat. Neurosci., April 29, 2024.
Goudar, V., Kim, J.W., Liu, Y., Dede, A.J.O., Jutras, M.J., Skelin, I., Ruvalcaba, M., Chang, W., Ram, B., Fairhall, A.L., Lin, J.J., Knight, R.T., Buffalo, E.A. and Wang, X.J., A comparison of rapid rule-learning strategies in humans and monkeys. J. Neurosci. 2024 Jun 13:e0231232024.
Shen, F.X., Wolf, S.M., Lawrenz, F., Comeau, D.S., Dzirasa, K., Evans, B.J., Fair, D., Farah, M.J., Han, S.D., Illes, J., Jackson, J.D., Klein, E., Rommelfanger, K.S., Rosen, M.S., Torres, E., Tuite, P., Vaughan, J.T. and Garwood, M., Ethical, legal, and policy challenges in field-based neuroimaging research using emerging portable MRI technologies: guidance for investigators and for oversight. J. Law Biosci. 2024 Jun 7;11(1):lsae008. doi: 10.1093/jlb/lsae008.