May 2024 Newsletter

A CNT Monthly Newsletter

May 2024

HONORS AND AWARDS

Congratulations to Ally Williams who received a Goldwater Scholarship. Ally, a student at Mississippi State University, was a 2023 CNT REU student in the lab of Andrea Stocco.
Catherine Rasgaitis, president of Synaptech (a UW Registered Student Organization), was awarded a UW Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Award to present her research at the 2024 Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Conference.

UPCOMING EVENTS

CNT faculty member Sara Goering will present a UW Neuro 510 lecture titled “Keeping Disability in Mind: Cripping Neuroscience and Neurotechnology” (May 13, 2024, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m; UW HSB 209).
CoNectome 2024 (formerly NCEC) will be held May 13-14, 2024 in the Zillow Commons at the University of Washington.
2024 Spinal Cord Injury Wellness Summit (May 18, 2024; University of Washington, Seattle, WA).
Abstracts for the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (October 5-9, 2024; Chicago, IL) are now being accepted until May 7, 2024.

CNT IN THE NEWS

MIT CNT faculty member Polina Anikeeva is profiled in the May/June 2024 issue of MIT Technology Review.

NEW CNT PUBLICATIONS

Goering, S., Brown, A.I. and Klein, E. Brain pioneers and moral entanglement: An argument for post-trial responsibilities in neural-device trials, Hastings Center Report, 54 no. 1 (2024): 24–33. DOI: 10.1002/hast.1566.
Valero-Cuevas, F.J., Finley, J., Orsborn, A., Fung, N., Hicks, J.L., Huang, H.H., Reinkensmeyer, D., Schweighofer, N., Weber, D. and Steele, K.M. NSF DARE-Transforming modeling in neurorehabilitation: Four threads for catalyzing progress. J. Neuroeng. Rehabil. 2024 Apr 3;21(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s12984-024-01324-x. PMID: 38570842.
Goering, S., Beck, A., Dorfman, N., Schwarzwalder, S. and Wohns, N. Privacy protections in and across contexts: Why we need more than contextual integrity, AJOB Neurosci. 2024 Apr-Jun;15(2):149-151. doi: 10.1080/21507740.2024.2326932. Epub 2024 Apr 3. PMID: 38568710.
Lagzi, F. and Fairhall, A.L. Emergence of co-tuning in inhibitory neurons as a network phenomenon mediated by randomness, correlations, and homeostatic plasticity. Sci. Adv.10,eadi4350(2024).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adi4350.
Philippe, R., Janet, R., Khalvati, K,, Rao, R.P.N., Lee, D. and Dreher, J.C. Neurocomputational mechanisms involved in adaptation to fluctuating intentions of others. Nat. Commun. 2024 Apr 12;15(1):3189. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47491-2.
Herron, J., Kremen, V., Simeral, J.D., Dawes, H., Worrell, G.A., Starr, P.A., Denison, T. and Borton, D. The convergence of neuromodulation and brain–computer interfaces. Nat. Rev. Bioeng. (2024).