News

The schedule for the 2014 Sloan-Swartz meeting, to be co-hosted on the UW campus by the UW Comp Neuro Program and the Allen Institute for Brain Science, is now available. Locals are encouraged to register to attend, although numbers may be limited. Present a poster!

Undergraduate computational neuroscience student Alice Bosma-Moody has been awarded one of only 20 summer internships selected from a pool of 900 applicants to undertake research at the Institute for Science and Technology Austria, located in Klosterneuburg.  She will be working in the lab of Dr Calin Guet, who studies synthetic biology in genetic networks. Congratulations Alice!

The Washington Research Foundation has awarded funding for a new Institute for Neuroengineering at UW, starting in July 2014. The new Institute, UWIN, is aimed at bridging fundamental research in brain mechanisms with technological outcomes, and will be directed by Tom Daniel and Adrienne Fairhall.

The deadline for applications to the Allen/UW Summer School on the Dynamic Brain is closing on April 1: get your applications in!

Michelle Drews and Bethanny Danskin, of the Computational Neuroscience undergraduate program, have both been awarded the Presidential Medal. Congratulations!

Announcing the new graduate student appointees for 2012: Alison Duffy (Physics) will be working jointly with David Perkel and Adrienne Fairhall; Jason Webster (Psychology) is working with Ione Fine, and David Leen (Applied Mathematics) is working under the supervision of Eric Shea-Brown.