Summary

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) invested more than $70 million to support the goals of the BRAIN Initiative during the past year, and plans a similar level of commitment in 2015.

HHMI supports the BRAIN Initiative at its Janelia Research Campus and in the laboratories of HHMI Investigators at universities throughout the United States. This investment has been focused on developing new imaging technologies and understanding how information is stored and processed in neural networks.

 

Information

Website:  hhmi.org/  YouTube Channel:  youtube.com/user/biointeractive Twitter:  twitter.com/hhminews Facebook:  facebook.com/HowardHughesMed Wikipedia Entry: wiki/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institute

Email:   contact form Phone: 301-215-8500 Address: 4000 Jones Bridge Road Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6789

 

Organization

President: Robert Tjian Senior Executive Team Trustees Scientific Review Board (SRB) Medical Advisory Board (MAB) Science Education Advisory Board (SEAB) Scientific Officers

Background

The BRAIN Initiative Fact Sheet 9/30/14

Howard Hughes Medical Institute invested more than $70 million to support the goals of the BRAIN Initiative during the past year, and plans a similar level of commitment in 2015:

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has invested more than $70 million to support the BRAIN Initiative during the past year at its Janelia Research Campus and in the laboratories ...

 

The goal of the Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study program is to ensure the development of a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to assume leadership roles in science, including college and university faculty, who have the responsibility to teach the next generation of scientists.

Students are chosen for their academic excellence, scientific potential, and commitment to the advancement of diversity and inclusion in the sciences.

 

Web Information

Webpage: https://www.hhmi.org/programs/gilliam-fellowships-for-advanced-study

Contact Information

Email: gilliam@hhmi.org.

About

The fellowships honor the legacy of the late James H. Gilliam, Jr., an HHMI trustee who devoted his life to fostering excellence and diversity in education and science.

The 2015 competition is open to:

Alumni of HHMI’s Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP), regardless of country of origin or nationally, or Students nominated by T32 predoctoral training grant principal investigators (PIs) supported by the National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS); each nominated student must be training grant eligible but does not need to have been a T32 trainee.

Each fellowship will support students for up to three years of their dissertation research, typically in years three, four and five of their PhD studies.  Applicants must be in their second or third year of a PhD program in the life sciences or related sciences and ...

 

The Janelia Research Campus is a research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute focusing on neuroscience and imaging.

Chemists, physicists, computational scientists, and engineers work in close collaboration with biologists to tackle problems in neuroscience and imaging. At the interface of these two research areas are approaches to map the structure of neural circuits and monitor their function during animal behavior.

Gerry Rubin video on Janelia Research uploaded by Loudoun County Va. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvgq0LOyNT8

Web Information

Website:   janelia.org/ Facebook: acebook.com/HHMIJRC Wikipedia Entry:  wiki/Janelia_Farm_Research_Campus

Contact Information

Email: janelia.org/content/feedback Phone: (571) 209-4000 Address: 19700 Helix Drive | Ashburn, VA 20147

Organization

Executive Director: Gerry Rubin People

The Campus

At the Janelia Research Campus scientists from many disciplines gather to collaborate closely, in small teams, on some of science’s most challenging problems. The architectural design of the buildings and the laboratories helps achieve Janelia’s central objectives—collaboration and flexibility. Every element, from the sweeping laboratory building—organized around curving glass corridors punctuated by soaring glass-enclosed staircases—to the 96-room guest house and adjacent housing village, is intended to foster collaboration. Janelia website

The Janelia Research Campus is located in Loudoun County, Virginia, near the town of Ashburn.The 689 acres campus  features a 900-foot long, arc-shaped laboratory known as the Landscape Building. Designed by Rafael Viñoly, the ...

 

Katie Yang, a doctoral candidate in neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is a recipient of the prestigious Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

Katie’s research focus is on the peripheral mechanisms of vocal and swallowing deficits in a rat model of Parkinson Disease. Katie is a member of the lab of Dr. Michelle Ciucci, assistant professor of surgery, and is one of two UW-Madison graduate students to earn the fellowship.

Web Information

Wisconsin webpage: ntp.neuroscience.wisc.edu/ricks.htm

Contact Information

Email: kricks@wisc.edu and katie@onair.cc