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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 [...]

We are well into the second week of our new summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain, co-hosted by the UW Computational Neuroscience program and the Allen Institute for Brain Science. The course is held at Friday Harbor Labs, UW's exquisitely beautiful "science camp" on the forested shores of San Juan Island.  This course has a very distinct flavor compared with other computational neuroscience courses: it is structured around the data being produced by the Allen Institute. Twenty-four [...]

Undergraduate computational neuroscience student Karl Marrett is conducting research this summer through the CSNE funded Brain Links - Brain Tool Summer Exchange.   He is forming a collaboration between his current lab  at UW, led by Adrian "KC" Lee, which has a focus in auditory brain science and Michael Tangermann's lab at the University of Freiburg that specializes in machine learning and brain computer interfaces.

Announcing a new public lecture series that will run next quarter, featuring outstanding scientists from UW and the Computational Neuroscience Program in particular. This should be a great series!