Best Data Blitz Award goes to… Sabrina Levy!
Congratulations to MSTP student Sabrina Levy who won the best data blitz Award during the UCLA CENT 2021 Online Symposium! Sabrina also recently advanced to PhD candidacy. Lots of reasons to celebrate! The Annual UCLA Symposium on Neurotechnology gathers leading-edge scientists, engineers and medical professionals at UCLA to foster understanding and development of neurotechnology, the new frontier in brain […]
Matthias Stangl receives the 2020/2021 UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research
Dr. Matthias Stangl was awarded the 2020/2021 UCLA Chancellor’s Award for exceptional Postdoctoral Research. Read more about Matthias and his research on his featured profile on the Semel Institute website: here
Stories of WiN interview with Nanthia Suthana
Women in Neuroscience (WiN) highlights the stories of female neuroscientists at different career stages and from diverse backgrounds and subfields. Each scientist’s profile featured on this site is written based on an in-depth interview with curated questions underscoring her academic achievements and sources of motivation, as well as some of the challenges on her journey. […]
Nanthia Suthana chairs session and speaks at SfN connectome
Scientific Panel Monday, January 11, 20212:15–3:30 p.m. EST Neural Computations in the Human Brain Chair: Nanthia Suthana, PhDUniversity of California, Los AngelesPresenter: Edward Chang, MDUniversity of California, San FranciscoPresenter: Jennifer Collinger, PhDUniversity of PittsburghPresenter: Ziv Williams, MDMassachusetts General Hospital Research studies using rare recordings from the brains of patients with implanted electrodes provide a unique […]
Nature News and Views article written by Hugo Spiers summarizing our recent study
Nature News and Views Oscillations in neuronal activity in the medial temporal lobe of the human brain encode proximity to boundaries such as walls, both when navigating while walking and when watching another person do so. REad more
NIH media coverage “Scientists discover how our brains track where we and others go”
National Institutes of Health For the first time, scientists have recorded how our brains navigate physical space and keep track of others’ location. Researchers used a special backpack to wirelessly monitor the brain waves of epilepsy patients as each one walked around an empty room hunting for a hidden, two-foot spot. In an article published […]
Jay Gill receives SfN Trainee Professional Development Award
Jay Gill (PhD2, MSTP student) recently received a Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award! Congratulations! The Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) recognizes undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research.
Sabrina Levy receives NIH F32 grant
Congratulations to MSTP student Sabrina Levy who was just awarded an NRSA F30 predoctoral fellowship for MD/PhD with a score of 16 (3%tile) on the 1st submission! NRSA F32 fellowships provide up to three years of support for promising postdoctoral researchers who have the potential to become productive, independent investigators within the broad scope of biomedical, behavioral, […]
Science Magazine covers our recent Mo-DBRS platform
Science Magazine Call it neuroscience on the go. Scientists have developed a backpack that tracks and stimulates brain activity as people go about their daily lives. The advance could allow researchers to get a sense of how the brain works outside of a laboratory—and how to monitor diseases such as Parkinson’s and post-traumatic stress disorder […]
U Magazine highlights Nanthia Suthana in “Virtual Traveler”
U Magazine When Nanthia Suthana, PhD ’09 (FEL ’12), was an undergrad at UCLA, she took a year off from school to travel through Europe and try to make sense of the rest of her life. “There I was, a 19-year-old well out of her comfort zone and in a new and strange cultural world,” she says. […]