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HWNI member Ke Xu is part of a collaboration to study steroid hormones in Alzheimer's disease.Read more about UC Berkeley researchers awarded Pew Innovation Funding

Get to know the Neuroscience PhD Program entering class of 2020!Read more about Welcome to our new PhD students!

Congratulations to Matt for winning a fellowship, and Holly and Tobias for winning teaching awards!Read more about PhD students Matt Davis, Holly Gildea, and Tobias Schmid win fellowship, awards

Assistant professor Michael Yartsev was one of only six faculty worldwide to receive this award.Read more about Michael Yartsev appointed as a Vallee Scholar

The Walker and Jagust labs found that sleep quality can predict accumulation of beta-amyloid.Read more about How we sleep today may forecast when Alzheimer’s disease begins

Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD student Malak El-Quessny (Feller lab), explaining her new paper.Read more about Which way is up? Retinal neurons know, even when light deprivation during development distorts their shape

The opinion piece discusses the work of Jack Gallant, Jose Carmena, and Michel Maharbiz.Read more about HWNI scientists featured in NY Times article on brain-machine interfaces

Neuroscience pioneer and HWNI member Marian Diamond was named a California Woman of the Century.Read more about Marian Diamond named a California Woman of the Century

The Knight and Walker labs have discovered how to identify REM sleep in EEG recordings.Read more about Brain noise contains unique signature of dream sleep

Congratulations to professor Matthew Walker for winning the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization!Read more about Sleep researcher Matthew Walker wins Carl Sagan science prize

New research from the Whitney lab shows that people perceive the location of objects in…Read more about Vision scientists discover why humans literally don't see eye to eye

In this profile of Professor Daniela Kaufer, read about how she restored youthful functioning in…Read more about Can We Cure Dementia?

Congratulations to HWNI co-founder, former director, and current adjunct professor Corey Goodman for being awarded…Read more about Corey Goodman awarded Gruber Neuroscience Prize

Read the message below from the director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Ehud (Udi) Isacoff, Neuroscience PhD Program Director Michael Silver, and PhD Program Manager Candace Groskreutz, condemning racial injustice, reaffirming our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and...Read more about Message of support to the HWNI community

Congratulations to Jack Gallant and Chunlei Liu for becoming co-directors of the BIC.Read more about Gallant and Liu to serve as co-directors of the Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Berkeley Brain Imaging Center

A new video produced by the Simons Institute examines the computational processes by which the brain builds visual models of the external world....Read more about Perception as inference: The brain and computation

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI) faculty members Stephen Brohawn, Diana Bautista, Hillel Adesnik, and Markita Landry have received funding to address the urgent problem of COVID-19.Read more about HWNI faculty awarded grants to tackle COVID-19

Congratulations to HWNI members Andrea Gomez, Richard Kramer and Stephen Brohawn!Read more about Gomez, Kramer, and Brohawn are the winners of the 2020 Rennie Fund for the Study of Epilepsy

Read our Q&A with first author Alex Naka, a Neuroscience PhD Program alum, about a new study that resulted from a collaboration between the Ngai and Adesnik labs.Read more about Same neurotransmitter, different functions: Identification of subnetworks of somatostatin neurons in sensory processing

We are thrilled to announce Yvette Fisher is joining the MCB Neurobiology division and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute as an Assistant Professor, arriving in July 2021!Read more about HWNI and MCB welcome new faculty Yvette Fisher

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Evan Miller has been named a 2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. He joins 13 other early-career faculty that have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education.Read more about Miller named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

We do not “need” music to survive, yet rarely do we meet anyone who claims not to love it. Music has the power to unite, entertain, move, and comfort us. However, our relationship with music is full of mystery. From where does something so abstract and seemingly non-essential for human life draw...Read more about Isacoff on music and the mind

CRANBURY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spectroscopy®, is proud to announce that Markita Landry, Ph.D., has been named the winner of the 2020 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award. The award will be presented to Landry at the 2020 SciX 2020 conference in October in Sparks, Nevada, where she will...Read more about Landry Named Winner of 2020 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award

Michael Yartsev has been named a 2020 Young Investigator by the Office of Naval Research for his work on “Neural Computations Underlying the Utilization of Sensory Information in Spatial Navigation”.Read more about Yartsev named Office of Naval Research Young Investigator

The Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation will award up to five outstanding dissertation prizes in cognitive science.Read more about PhD alum Falk Lieder wins Glushko Dissertation Prize