Neuroscience News

UChicago, CSU, and UIC received a $4.8 million grant from the NIH BRAIN Initiative to build a faster microscope for mapping all the connections in the brain. Associate Professor Bobby Kasthuri (Neurobiology), Staff scientist Gregg Wildenberg, postdoc Nelson Medina, and Assistant Professor Sarah King (Chemistry) are members of the PEEM research team.

The 2024 UChicago Neuroscience Retreat was a resounding success, drawing a crowd of 180 attendees - our biggest retreat yet!

New research from the Freedman Lab shows that the superior colliculus, a brain region that controls eye movements, also plays an important role in higher cognitive functions like categorization and decision making.

Stephanie Palmer (OBA), whose work blends biology, physics, math, and computer science, is one of six new Schmidt Science Polymaths, a program to support creative, multidisciplinary researchers.

The grant from the NIH/NIDDK will support a project to collect and analyze data from hundreds of Parkinson’s patients over five years. Professor Xiaoxi Zhuang, PhD (Neurobiology and Neurology) is one of the co-investigators.

Dr. Palmer (OBA) is one of the researchers pursuing risky, novel ideas that will each receive up to $2.5 million. She will study how human computational capacity is both limited and expanded by our ancestral history examining both the brain’s neural networks and biochemical networks within single cells.