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Seed Grants catalyze collaborations between researchers from across the university for innovative, collaborative research projects in the neurosciences.
Funded Seed Grant projects
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2017
Enabling faster and more responsive voltage imaging through computational biophysics
A computational biophysicist and a protein engineer will team up to improve voltage-sensing fluorescent proteins, proteins that can report electrical activity by changing their production of light. The goal is to visualize the electrical activity in neurons in real time.
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2019
Ultrasonic neural control and neuroimaging in the awake, mobile, and behaving small rodent
We propose to design a lightweight, wearable system for integrated ultrasonic drug uncaging and fUS neuroimaging to noninvasively pharmacologically modulate a brain target and then image the resultant changes in neural activity without significant motion limitations.
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2015
In vivo selection for gene mutations that counteract photoreceptor degeneration
To combat age related macular degeneration, we propose to identify genes that increase survival of the light sensing nerves of the eye.
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2019
Quantifying auditory-vocal affect in human social communication
This proposal brings together faculty with this diverse expertise to develop the first gold standard test of auditory-vocal affect. Once developed, validated, and normed, we will deploy this test in the clinical context of autism to quantify impairments and direct neurobiological investigation.
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Seed Grant
2017
Identification of sex hormone interacting proteins
We are interested in elucidating the multiple roles that sex hormones play in development of the nervous system and in regulating brain functions that influence gender identity, puberty, and reproduction.