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Rajesh Rao will be speaking about the CSNE's advances in brain-computer interfaces this Wednesday night at Kane Hall.

Thinking of applying for PhD studies in Computational Neuroscience and Neural Engineering at UW? The University of Washington has a rich, active and highly collaborative community of researchers in the field of computational neuroscience and neural engineering. The University of Washington is a vibrant research university with a beautiful campus in a spectacular urban setting, with an ERC Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, the UW Institute for Neuroengineering, close connections to the local [...]

Lars Crawford, graduate of the Neurobiology/Computational Neuroscience program's class of 2014, was recently accepted into the Technology Commercialization Fellowship Program at the University of Washington’s Center for Commercialization for his work on a virtual home rehabilitation system called vHAB. A kinematic hand sensor and custom EMG sleeve controls a set of dynamic games that emulate traditional upper extremity therapy tasks and is designed to keep patients motivated in their home rehabilitation while collecting [...]

Our Seattle Arts and Lectures series, Hacking the Brain to Reveal, Repair, Rebuild, launched on October 1 with a mind-bogglingly fun and informative talk from Phil Horner about the use of stem cells to repair spinal cord. The series continues on October 22 with a talk by Beth Buffalo on the remarkable spatial coding properties of the hippocampus, for which the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology was awarded, and how we may be [...]

The thesis of Yu Hu, an Applied Mathematics PhD Student advised by Eric Shea-Brown, was selected as the top-ranked thesis in mathematical sciences, physics and engineering in the competition for the 2014 UW Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Award.  His dissertation, "Collective Activity in Neural Networks: the Mathematical Structure of Connection Graphs and Population Codes,” propelled him to a Swartz Fellowship at Harvard, where we’ll be watching to see more great findings coming down [...]

We are happy to announce the new graduate trainees in the Computational Neuroscience Program. Yoni Browning, working in the Buffalo and Fairhall labs, is working on primate navigational strategies and their representation in hippocampus using virtual reality environments. Yoni is a graduate of the UW undergraduate computational neuroscience program. He will be cofunded by UW Institute for Neuroengineering. Kaitlyn Casimo, working with neurosurgeon Jeff Ojemann, works on the measurement and characterization of ECoG [...]