Browse wide-ranging research at the frontiers of neuroscience supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute grants, awards, and training fellowships.
Projects
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2025
Characterizing Goal-driven Dynamics Underlying Naturalistic Behavior
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
Dynamic acetylcholine regulation in flexible learning and restorative interventions in Parkinson’s disease
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
Early Entorhinal-Hippocampal Vulnerability and Recovery in Alzheimer's Disease
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2025
Mapping Synaptic Proteomes during Learning and Memory Consolidation Using Proximity Labeling
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2025
Observing axonal transport with molecular resolution on molecular timescales
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2025
Oncogene-Directed Virotherapy for Brain Cancer
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
Programmatic Activation of the Neurodegenerative TREM2 Pathway by TCIP1
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
The role of mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 in glaucoma pathophysiology
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
The role of the frontotemporal dementia gene product Progranulin in the homeostasis of the neurodegeneration- associated lipid Bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2025
Thermosensory Control of Multimodal Behavioral Adaptation and Optimization
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
Evaluating the immunomodulatory role of circular RNAs in microglia
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
High-resolution profiling of Alzheimer’s brain resilience
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2024
How do early life experiences shape the neural underpinnings of caregiver olfactory recognition?
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2024
Interpretable machine learning to decipher gene regulation in brain development and disruption in disease
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2024
Interrogating the effects of serotonin and dopamine on neural activity in the nucleus accumbens during aggression
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2024
Multifunctional vascular-like electronics for integration and monitoring of human neural organoids
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
Neural mechanisms of episodic memory resilience in longitudinal aging brains
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2024
Neuronal innervation dynamics in uterine function and maternal age-associated miscarriage
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
Sleep and neuronal energy management in neurodegeneration
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
TREM1 in peripheral myeloid cells exacerbates cognitive decline in aging and Alzheimer's disease
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2023
Determining the role of circadian transcriptional control in myelin-forming precursors in neurodegeneration
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2023
Elucidating the role of alternative polyadenylation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2023
Improving BCI generalizability with multi-task modeling and autocalibration
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2023