Funded Research Projects
NeuroDiscovery | Brain Resilience Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Lead Researcher(s): Yi Zeng
With an aging population, neurodegenerative disorders contribute increasingly to our global health burden with no cure or effective treatments. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are two neurodegenerative disorders that are distinct in clinical presentation (ALS...
NeuroDiscovery | Brain Resilience Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Lead Researcher(s): Takeshi Uenaka
There is one characteristic of all neurodegenerative diseases: the accumulation and aggregation of abnormal proteins in the patient’s brain. These aggregations are thought to induce neuronal cell death and brain degeneration.
NeuroDiscovery | Brain Resilience Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Lead Researcher(s): Chiara Anselmi
With an aging population, neurodegenerative disorders contribute increasingly to our global health burden with no cure or effective treatments. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are two neurodegenerative disorders that are distinct in clinical presentation (ALS...
NeuroDiscovery | Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Lead Researcher(s): Renzhi Yang
We understand a lot about how the brain gets rewired when learning a new skill by repetitive practice, such as hitting a curveball. However, how learning and experience alter the innate behaviors that we are born with is poorly understood.
NeuroDiscovery | Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Lead Researcher(s): Elizabeth DuPre
Cognitive neuroscience has traditionally focused on identifying the neural basis of psychological traits or state effects across large samples of participants. Recently, researchers have pushed towards providing more precise estimates of individual functional organization to better understand both...
NeuroDiscovery | Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Lead Researcher(s): Christopher Miranda
Calcium imaging in freely behaving animals allows for the tracking of neuronal activity under approximately normal behavioral conditions. However, the slow response time of calcium imaging inhibits high resolution voltage and temporal measurements. To address this issue, modern molecular tools have...
NeuroDiscovery | Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Lead Researcher(s): Zihao Ou
The gut-brain axis is implicated in many essential physiological and psychological functions, ranging from feeding, emotion, motivation, to memory. As a critical component of the gut-brain axis, vagal sensory neurons exhibit distinct projection patterns to target specific visceral organs....
NeuroDiscovery | Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Lead Researcher(s): Darrel Deo
Intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) can restore lost communication and motor function for people with severe speech and motor impairment due to neurological injury or disease. iBCIs measure neural activity from the brain, decode this activity into control signals, and use these signals...
NeuroDiscovery | Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Lead Researcher(s): Mengyuan Xu
Membrane transport proteins are essential for life. They transport essential nutrients and minerals across the membrane barrier that surrounds each cell in the human body. This transport is necessary for every living process – from eating and breathing to learning and doing daily work. Those...
NeuroDiscovery | Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Lead Researcher(s): Logan Cross
In order to reach the level of intelligence that humans possess, artificial agents need to be able to autonomously interact with other agents and humans and build rich models of how other minds work as a result of these interactions. This learning process should mirror aspects of the human...
