The lab of Alfredo Kirkwood of MBI published a paper in Neuron showing that sleep radically decreases the balance between synaptic excitation and synaptic inhibition in the brain. This finding […]

Ramanujan Srinath, a graduate student in the labs of Ed Connor and Kristina Nielsen, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on September 10, 2019 and presented his public Thesis Seminar on […]

  The lab of Hey-Kyoung Lee published a paper titled “Disruption of NMDAR Function Prevents Normal Experience-Dependent Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex” in The Journal of Neuroscience, […]

The lab of MBI Researcher Hey-Kyoung Lee published a new study online in the journal Neuron, with CMDB graduate student Varun Chokshi as primary author. In collaboration with Paul Worley […]

Douglas GoodSmith, a graduate student in the Knierim lab, successfully defended his thesis dissertation on July 17, 2019 and presented his public seminar on August 16.  His thesis was titled […]

The Inaugural Guy M. McKhann Lecture: “The Neurological Complications of Obesity: A Modern Day Epidemic” To be presented by: Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology […]

Augusto Lempel, a Neuroscience Program graduate student in the Nielsen lab, and Chia-Hsuan (Shan) Wang, a Neuroscience Program graduate student in the Knierim lab, recently defended their doctoral dissertations.  Augusto […]

The Knierim Lab of MBI and the LIMBS Lab of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (N. Cowan, PI) published a study in the journal Nature that showed how the brain […]

The Nielsen lab at MBI recently published a paper in Current Biology. This is the first paper demonstrating that ferret visual cortex handles the processing of complex motion information in […]

The Knierim  lab of MBI published a paper in Science that discovered a new role of the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex (LEC)—one of the gateways of information into the hippocampal memory […]