on Join a public discussion and reading by Jared Moore and Anton Arkhipov about their recently published novels, which both explore ideas about AI. The discussion will be followed by a reception– and book signing! Sponsored by the UW Computational Neuroscience Center.
Time/Date: 7:00pm, Thursday, February 29, 2024
Location: Foege Auditorium S060; 3720 15th Ave NE, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
on Brock Grill, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics at UW (Seattle Children’s Research Institute)
“Ubiquitin Ligase Signaling Hubs and the Adhesome in Nervous System Development and Disease”
Monday, February 26, 2024; 3:30 pm; Health Sciences Building Room T-639
Grill Lab’s overarching interest is in using in vivo proteomic and genetic approaches to understand how signaling influences development and function of the nervous system. Progress on these research directions is essential to understanding how the nervous system is built and modulated. Ultimately, we strive to identify new molecular targets for treating neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegenerative disease and opioid addiction/withdrawal.
on The UW Computational Neuroscience Center will hold their annual symposium, CoNectome, on May 13-14, 2024. They are seeking nominations for trainee speaker and opening the call up to the full CNC community. Trainee talks are typically 15-20 minutes, and the majority will be on Monday, May 13. Any UW student or postdoc is eligible. Self-nominations are allowed and encouraged! In addition to talks, there will be a poster session on May 13.
To submit a nomination, please complete this form.
on Dr. Zachary Danziger is an Associate Professor at Emory University in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine – Division of Physical Therapy and the W.H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. His primary research area is focused developing models and theory to understand how people learn to interact with and control high-dimensional systems such as systems that require many inputs, like brain-computer interfaces, and systems that have many controllable parts, like robot arms or hands. For more information, see his webpage.
on Applications for the Society for Neuroscience Next Generation Award are now being accepted. This award “recognizes SfN chapter members who have made outstanding contributions to public communication, outreach, and education about neuroscience through activities such as classroom engagement, social media campaigns, etc, typically at the high school level or below.”
on The UW Neuroethics Journal Club will hold their next Tuesday at 2:30-3:30 in UW Life Sciences Building 301! Discussion wll focus on this paper about BCIs and agency with Sara Goering, a leader of the Neuroethics group at the UW. This is a great chance to get involved with neuroethics at the UW, and is geared towards students of any level.
Tuesday, February 13th
2:30 – 3:30 pm
LSB 301
pizza provided
on “Circuits and cellular mechanisms for the generation and control of breathing”
Monday, Feb 5, 2024, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.; UW, HSB Room T-639
Nathan Baertsch will present “Circuits and cellular mechanisms for the generation and control of breathing.” The Baertsch Lab investigates how breathing is generated and regulated by the brain. By uncovering fundamental cellular and network mechanisms of respiratory control, we hope to inspire new therapeutic interventions to treat breathing disorders associated with neurological pathology, prematurity, and opioid use.
“Investigating brainwide anesthesia-activated ensembles in mice”
Monday, Feb 12, 2024, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.; UW, HSB Room T-639
Dr. Mitra Heshmati will present “Investigating brainwide anesthesia-activated ensembles in mice.” Our goal is to develop a comprehensive cell-type and circuit-specific understanding of anesthesia-induced brain plasticity to better inform translational approaches to expediting emergence from general anesthesia and mitigating postanesthetic agitation and delirium. We currently investigate the effects of general anesthesia on brain circuitry during anesthesia state transitions using brain clearing and whole brain imaging with light sheet microscopy, an approach that enables a single cell resolution snapshot of activity in circuits across the whole rodent brain. We then take advantage of genetically targeted biosensor imaging to interrogate the population activity of neurons within identified anesthesia-activated circuits during emergence. Using knockdown and overexpression of specific genes of interest within specified neural circuits, we examine the effects of targeted genetic manipulations on population activity and whole brain network connectivity under anesthesia and during emergence. We also use established preclinical models of social behavior and stress to investigate postanesthetic agitation and delirium across the lifespan. We plan to initiate parallel translational investigations in humans as our studies move toward identifying putative mechanistic targets to improve the experience of general anesthesia for patients.
“Differential encoding of mammalian proprioception by voltage-gated sodium channels”
Thursday, Feb 29, 2024, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.; UW, HSB Room G-328
Presenter: Dr. Theanna Griffith, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, UC Davis
on Update: The coupon code has been issued and is no longer available.
One coupon code for 50% off one 2024 student or postdoctoral membership to the Society for Neuroscience is currently available. The first person to make a request will receive the coupon. To redeem the discount, the trainee will enter the unique code on the Shopping Cart page prior to entering their credit card information.
To receive the coupon code, please contact Eric Chudler at chudler@uw.edu.
on Applications to participate in NeuroHackademy 2024 are now available.
This two-week hands-on workshop will be held in a hybrid format, July 29th- August 10th, 2024 at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA, and online.
NeuroHackademy is an opportunity for participants to learn state-of-the-art methods for the analysis and management of large human neuroscience datasets while also networking and working with domain experts and each other on concrete neuroscience problems. The curriculum emphasizes large datasets of publicly available data (such as the Human Connectome Project, OpenNeuro, etc.), and on the value of making human neuroscience research open and reproducible.
NeuroHackademy sessions in the first week will include lectures and tutorials on data science, machine learning, data visualization, and data resources, as well as extended Q&A sessions. The second week will be devoted primarily to participant-directed activities: guided work on team projects, hackathon sessions, and breakout sessions on topics of interest. Participants will have an opportunity to present their own work in a session that will take place in the second week of the event.
This event will be held in a hybrid format, with options to attend in-person in Seattle, or online. Participants attending online will join the event through multiple online channels, including zoom-casts of lectures and breakout sessions, Slack conversations, and collaboration through GitHub and through the course’s online Juptyerhub.
For more details and a preliminary list of instructors, see: https://neurohackademy.org/
We are now accepting applications to participate at: https://neurohackademy.org/apply/
Ideally, applicants should have some prior experience with programming and with neuroscience data analysis, but we welcome applications from participants with a variety of relevant backgrounds. For frequently asked questions, please refer to this page: https://neurohackademy.org/frequently-asked-questions/
Accepted applicants will be asked to pay a fee of $250 (in person) / $25 (online) upon final registration. Fees cover housing and two meals per day for in person participants.
Important dates:
April 15th, application deadline
May 6th, notification of acceptance
May 20th, final registration deadline
July 29th – August 10th: NeuroHackademy
on Congratulations to four University of Washington students who have received $500 travel awards from the Pacific Cascade Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience:
Rich Henderson will present “Transcutaneous Spinal Stimulation Improves Exoskeleton Assisted Walking in Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Study” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting (February 15-17, 2024; Boston, MA).
Mara Kapsner-Smith will present “Auditory Feedback Perturbation of Vocal Parameters Does Not Elicit a Laryngeal Stabilization Response” at the Madonna Motor Speech Conference (February 21-24, 2024; San Diego, CA).
Jingyuan Li will present “Self-supervised Behavior Modeling with Dense Keypoint Tracking” at the Computational and Systems Neuroscience — COSYNE 2024 meeting (February 29 – March 5, 2024; Lisbon, Portugal).
Catherine Rasgaitis will present “Investigating the Neural and Ocular Markers of Facial Perception” at the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Conference (April 10-13, 2024; Toronto, Canada).
