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Congratulations to Neuroscience PhD student Odilia Lu!Read more about Odilia Lu wins NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize

Please join us in welcoming Kristin to our community!Read more about Welcome to our new HWNI Manager Kristin Nichols!

A new study from the labs of HWNI members Annaliese Beery and Markita Landry and collaborators.Read more about Is the ‘love hormone,’ oxytocin, also the ‘friendship hormone’?

Congratulations to Neuroscience PhD student Angel Garcia!Read more about Angel Garcia named 2025 HHMI Gilliam Fellow

HWNI’s Redwood Center celebrated on July 1 with an event that was part reunion, part scientific conference.Read more about Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience celebrates 20 years at UC Berkeley

New research from the Yartsev lab.Read more about UC Berkeley scientists uncover neural mechanisms behind long-term memory

Congratulations to HWNI faculty members Preeya Khanna and Stephan Lammel!Read more about Preeya Khanna and Stephan Lammel win 2025 Rennie Fund for the Study of Epilepsy

Congratulations to HWNI member Yvette Fisher on these two honors!Read more about Yvette Fisher named Freeman Hrabowski Scholar and wins McKnight Scholar Award

Profile of HWNI faculty member Noah Whiteman.Read more about ‘The freedom to be fully human’: Noah Whiteman’s take on Pride and thriving in academia

HWNI member Chunlei Liu helped develop the new method.Read more about New MRI method offers deeper insight into brain physiology

Congratulations to the recent and upcoming graduates!Read more about Congratulations to the Neuroscience PhD Program Graduates!

A new study from the labs of HWNI members Silvia Bunge and Kevin Weiner.Read more about Are groovy brains more efficient?

We were honored to have Dr. Bargmann (Rockefeller University) as our first speaker in the Carla and Corey Lectureship Series.Read more about Cori Bargmann gives inaugural Carla and Corey Lecture

Congratulations to Yartsev lab postdoctoral fellow Boaz Styr!Read more about Postdoc Boaz Styr wins Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award

HWNI member Jack Gallant appears in the documentary and participated in a Q&A after the screening.Read more about Jack Gallant speaks at screening of Werner Herzog documentary ‘Theater of Thought’

Congratulations to HWNI member Yang Dan!Read more about Yang Dan elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

HWNI member Austin Roorda is a co-author on the study.Read more about Scientists develop technique that allows people to see new color ‘olo’

Congratulations to Ehud Isacoff, Jim Hurley, and James Olzmann!Read more about Three HWNI members win Molecular Therapeutics Initiative Innovator Awards

Congratulations to HWNI member Markita del Carpio Landry!Read more about Markita del Carpio Landry wins Guggenheim Fellowship

Congratulations to HWNI member James Olzmann!Read more about James Olzmann wins UC Berkeley Letters & Science Faculty Award

Congratulations to Neuroscience PhD student Sonali Mali!Read more about Sonali Mali wins Schmidt Science Fellowship

A new study from the lab of HWNI member Stephan Lammel.Read more about Scientists discover why a high-fat diet can lead to reduced eating pleasure

Congratulations to HWNI members Diana Bautista and Lexin Li!Read more about Bautista and Li named fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Congratulations to HWNI member Helen Bateup for receiving UC Berkeley’s highest teaching honor!Read more about Helen Bateup receives Distinguished Teaching Award

The packed event featured Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel, HWNI co-founder Carla Shatz, HWNI member Marla Feller, and Neuroscience PhD alum Anna Vlasits (new Assistant Professor, University of Illinois).Read more about Four generations from same ‘neuro family tree’ discuss how neuroscience has evolved