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Research from Neuroscience PhD alum Chris Holdgraf, who is now a data scientist at UC Berkeley.Read more about How a Map of Your Brain Can Trick Your Brain

Interview with HWNI member Daniela Kaufer.Read more about How Stress Changes Your Brain: An Interview With a Stress Expert

Markita Landry, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute faculty…Read more about Congratulations to Markita Landry for winning a DARPA Young Faculty Award

Congratulations to HWNI faculty member Lucia Jacobs!Read more about Congratulations to Lucia Jacobs for winning Radcliffe Institute Fellowship

Congratulations to Neuroscience PhD students Maimon Rose and Tobias Schmid who are both in the Yartsev lab.Read more about Two of our PhD students received a prestigious travel award

Conference hosted by UC Berkeley on June 13-15, 2018.Read more about Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience Conference

Research from the lab of UC Berkeley professor Dacher Keltner.Read more about Sizing Up Awe

Review of book by HWNI member Matthew Walker.Read more about Book Review – Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Research from the Adesnik and Brohawn labs, covered by The Next Web.Read more about Researchers are developing a device that can edit brain activity

Alzheimer’s disease develops when proteins in the brain form abnormal tangles, and a key player…Read more about New structure of tau protein, a key player in Alzheimer’s disease

Freja Ekman did research in the Schaffer lab.Read more about Top graduating senior champions neurodiversity

Two new longitudinal analyses suggest that even small elevations in brain amyloid, far below the…Read more about A Little Amyloid, A Lot of Trouble?

Congratulations to HWNI members Yang Dan and Udi Isacoff!Read more about Yang Dan and Ehud Isacoff elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Research from the Adesnik and Brohawn labs, covered by Newsweek.Read more about Brain holography: We may soon be able to edit our memories and sensations with this new tech

Research from the Adesnik and Brohawn labs, covered by the Independent.Read more about Holograms projected onto brain could help replace lost senses

Research from the Adesnik and Brohawn labs, covered by Berkeley News.Read more about Editing brain activity with holography

Eric Betzig, new Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute faculty member who will start as Professor of…Read more about New microscope can image subcellular dynamics, in 3D, in a live animal

In early 2017, John Tallarico and his team at Novartis started keeping tabs on intriguing…Read more about Novartis and Berkeley researchers team up to tackle the industry’s toughest drug targets

The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) is honored to announce its 2018 Young Investigator Award winners. All…Read more about Helen Bateup receives the C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy

Congratulations to HWNI member Teresa Puthussery!Read more about Puthussery Lab Lands Journal of Neuroscience Cover

Research from Rikky Muller and HWNI members Michel Maharbiz and Jose Carmena.Read more about Berkeley engineers build smallest volume, most efficient wireless nerve stimulator

Video features HWNI members Isacoff, Adesnik, Gallant, and Carmena.Read more about Watch “DARPA at Berkeley: Developing a Million Neuron Cortical Modem”

Three Berkeley Neuroscience PhD Program students received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Please join us in…Read more about Congrats to our latest NSF Fellowship Awardees

We would like to congratulate Neha Wadia (DeWeese Lab) for receiving this honor. Google created the PhD…Read more about Biophysics graduate student Neha Wadia receives 2018 Google PhD Fellowship

Research from Benjamin Smarr, a postdoc in the Kriegsfeld lab.Read more about Poor grades tied to class times that don’t match our biological clocks