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New study from the labs of HWNI members Kevin Weiner and Silvia Bunge.Read more about Overlooked folds in the brain are related to the development of reasoning skills

Learn more about Leleña Avila in a message from PhD Program Director Michael Silver.Read more about Welcome to our new Neuroscience PhD Program Manager Leleña Avila!

Learn about HWNI member Michael Yartsev’s research in this profile from Berkeley Engineering.Read more about Right off the bats: What the only flying mammal can teach us about the brain

New study from the Wallis lab shows that the hippocampus maps relative value.Read more about Brain area that maps space also maps abstract relationships, using a similar code

HWNI faculty member Joni Wallis is profiled in this Q&A from Neuron.Read more about Q&A with Joni Wallis

Assistant Professor - NeuroEngineering - Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Apply by December 10, 2021...Read more about UC Berkeley Neuroscience tenure track faculty position opportunity

Congratulations to HWNI member Markita Landry!Read more about Markita Landry awarded Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science

HWNI member Yang Dan is part of the collaboration, funded by the ASAP initiative.Read more about New study of the brain’s circuitry will track Parkinson’s disease from its origins

New research from the Yartsev lab, co-led by Neuroscience PhD student Maimon Rose.Read more about Bat study reveals secrets of the social brain

On November 5th Neuroscience PhD students will host a Q&A for prospective applicants. The discussion will be recorded if you aren't able to attend.

...Read more about Berkeley Neuro PhD Program: ASK US ANYTHING!

HWNI member Bob Knight founded the journal and is an editor of the collection.Read more about Nobel laureates undergo review by kids for new journal collection

HWNI member Teresa Puthussery is part of a new project to accelerate photoreceptor replacement therapy.Read more about Puthussery awarded funding from the National Eye Institute’s Audacious Goals Initiative

HWNI members Helen Bateup and John Ngai are co-authors on the flagship paper for this project.Read more about Neuroscientists roll out first comprehensive atlas of brain cells

Julius was a PhD student at Cal and postdoctoral advisor to HWNI faculty member Diana Bautista.Read more about Berkeley alum David Julius shares Nobel Prize for work on pain receptors

Congratulations to HWNI faculty member Yvette Fisher!Read more about Fisher receives Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award honorable mention

HWNI member Michael Yartsev’s bat navigation research is helping to guide development of autonomous vehicles.Read more about Reinventing the wheel

Congratulations to HWNI faculty member Diana Bautista!Read more about Diana Bautista named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

HWNI’s Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics will receive $7M in new gifts.Read more about Psychedelics research and public education elevated by multiple gifts

Find out why Helen Wills’ image adorns the stairwell of The City Club of San Francisco.Read more about Helen Wills immortalized as ‘Spirit of California’ in mural by Diego Rivera

We are excited to welcome the Neuroscience PhD Program incoming class of 2021!Read more about Welcome to our new PhD students!

New study by Neuroscience PhD alum Malak El-Quessny and HWNI faculty member Marla Feller.Read more about Despite dramatic differences in shape, these direction-sensing retinal neurons have similar synaptic organization

Read our Q&A with PhD alum Katarina Slama about her new paper with Bob Knight.Read more about Looking for something? Recording directly from the human brain reveals mechanisms underlying visual search

New study from Helen Bateup’s lab, co-led by Neuroscience PhD student Katie Cording.Read more about Selectively deleting autism-related gene reveals mechanisms that could contribute to repetitive behaviors

The Isacoff lab has developed a way to turn on specific dopamine pathways, increasing movement in mice.Read more about With the flip of a switch, scientists activate pathway impaired in Parkinson’s disease

Flinker has won the 2021 Early Career Award from the Society for the Neurobiology of Language!Read more about Neuroscience PhD alum Adeen Flinker wins early career award