Another great acknowledgment of outstanding accomplishment for our dear colleague Nancy Kopell comes from Israel Brain Technologies. Nancy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society, a distinction given to only one or two mathematicians each year. She is a recipient of a MacArthur […]
GPN students Meredith Cler, Maya Woodbury, and Dante Smith were recognized at the Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day on May 1, 2015.
Boston University Neuroscience graduate students volunteered at the 2015 Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair! BU graduate students include: Andres Salazar Gomez, Emily Stephen, Frannie Kamhi, Adam Vogel, Kayle Sawyer. Also pictured is Emily Kate McDonough from the University of Massachusetts.
Tau’s Role in Neurodegeneration Microglia and exosome-mediated spread of pathogenic tau in Alzheimer’s disease Our study suggests that microglial uptake and spreading of tau protein may play an important role in Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects more than 5.3 million people in the United States. The average life expectancy is […]
Congratulations to Maya in her selection to receive the SFN 2014 Graduate Student Travel Award. She is one of about 30 awardees in the nation!!
JEDI MIND Wins IARPA’s INSTINCT Challenge WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), announced today the winner of its first public challenge contest, Investigating Novel Statistical Techniques to Identify Neurophysiological Correlates of Trustworthiness (INSTINCT). Troy Lau and Scott Kuzdeba’s winning solution, “JEDI MIND,” […]
BU’s Gloria Waters, Michael Hasselmo, and Timothy Gardner were among the academic, industry, and philanthropic leaders invited to the White House yesterday for a conference announcing stepped-up efforts to advance the president’s ambitious BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Neurotechnologies) Initiative. Waters, University vice president and associate provost for research, Hasselmo, a College of Arts & […]
BU Neuroscientists Sam Ling, Xue Han and Tyler Perrachione featured on the WBUR special series “Brain Matters”
Congratulations to Samantha Michalka of the Somers Lab for winning first prize and Maripierre Payen Surpris of the Chen lab for second prize representing Graduate Program for Neuroscience at the MED campus!