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Please welcome the Neuroscience PhD Program incoming class of 2024.Read more about Welcome to the new Neuroscience PhD students!

Watch HWNI member and Nobel laureate Randy Schekman explain his work, including his research on Parkinson’s disease, in just 101 seconds.Read more about How looking closely led this cell biologist to world-changing breakthroughs

Congratulations to HWNI member Andrea Gomez!Read more about Andrea Gomez chosen as one of 10 ‘Scientists to Watch’ by Science News

Congratulations to Angelo Forli, a postdoctoral fellow in the Yartsev lab!Read more about Angelo Forli wins Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award

Congratulations to HWNI member Doris Tsao!Read more about Doris Tsao wins António Champalimaud Vision Award

Congratulations to HWNI member Markita Landry for being named the 2024 Laureate in Chemical Sciences!Read more about Markita Landry named Laureate of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

Congratulations to HWNI members Helen Bateup and David Schaffer!Read more about Bateup and Schaffer part of team awarded $12M to uncover genetic pathways in autism

Read about the new department and its August 26 opening celebration.Read more about Neuroscience Department opens with ribbon cutting and party

Congratulations to Neuroscience PhD student Karina Bistrong!Read more about Karina Bistrong wins MCB Lisa Eshun-Wilson Community Award for DEIBJ

Congratulations to HWNI member James Hurley!Read more about James Hurley selected for SPARK NS Parkinson’s Disease Translational Research Program

New study from the Dillin lab, led by Neuroscience PhD alum Julian Dishart.Read more about Do smells prime our gut to fight off infection?

Congratulations to HWNI member Michael Yartsev!Read more about Michael Yartsev named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

The study is from the labs of HWNI members Sonia Bishop and Jack Gallant.Read more about New study shows how the brain reacts emotionally to the real world

Abdeladim (Adesnik lab) and Komatsu (Landry lab) are among only 12 winners nationwide!Read more about Postdocs Lamiae Abdeladim and Natsumi Komatsu win Burroughs Wellcome Career Awards at the Scientific Interface

Congratulations to HWNI member Andrea Gomez!Read more about Andrea Gomez wins McKnight Scholar Award

Congratulations to HWNI member Doris Tsao!Read more about Doris Tsao wins Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

HWNI member Na Ji and Jeanne Paz of UCSF will collaborate to study epilepsy in mouse models.Read more about Na Ji and Jeanne Paz win 2024 Rennie Fund for the Study of Epilepsy

The new study is led by HWNI member Michael Silver, director of the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics.Read more about Psychedelics change how we see the world. A UC Berkeley study aims to find out why.

Congratulations to HWNI member Yang Dan!Read more about Yang Dan wins Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize

Congratulations to the recent and upcoming graduates!Read more about 2024 Q&A with the Neuroscience PhD Program graduates

Congratulations to HWNI member Michael Yartsev!Read more about Michael Yartsev wins Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award

The Bouchard lab has developed a new AI method that can uncover hidden patterns in complex brain activity data.Read more about Unraveling brain complexity

Congratulations to HWNI member Lexin Li!Read more about Lexin Li named editor-in-chief of the Annals of Applied Statistics

Optometry & Vision Science, HWNI, and MCB held the celebration for Westheimer, who is a professor of the graduate school division of neurobiology in MCB and clinical professor emeritus of optometry.Read more about Celebration of Gerald Westheimer’s 100th birthday

Congratulations to HWNI members Mark D'Esposito and James Hurley!Read more about Seven UC Berkeley scientists elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences