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
Catalyst Momentum Awards
2025
Mapping Cell-Type-Specific Lysosomal Content
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
Catalyst Momentum Awards
2025
Predicting and promoting resilient brain aging trajectories (renewed)
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Momentum Awards
2025
Preserving Motor Engrams in Parkinson's Disease: Neural Circuit and Transcriptomic Studies and Strategies for Resilient Motor Control (renewed)
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2025
Thermosensory Control of Multimodal Behavioral Adaptation and Optimization
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Catalyst Momentum Awards
2025
Understand the regulatory dynamics of “resilience networks” during development, healthy aging and disease models (renewed)
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
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2024
Neuronal innervation dynamics in uterine function and maternal age-associated miscarriage
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
Microglia-Mediated Astrocyte Activation in Chronic Pain
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2023
Neuronal and genetic imprints of male mating experience
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2023
Restoring vision with epiretinal prostheses
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2023
Tracking Parkinson’s Disease with transformer models of everyday looking behaviors
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2022
Assessing the generalizability of individual brain models
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2022
Curiosity-driven social learning and interaction in artificial agents and humans
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2022
Next-generation brain imaging in freely moving animals
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2022
Optogenetic screening of the gut-brain axis via an internal light source
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Interdisciplinary)
2022