The Kavli Neural Systems Institute (Kavli NSI) at The Rockefeller University will promote interdisciplinary research and learn to tackle the biggest questions in neuroscience through high-risk, high-reward projects and the development of new research technologies.

“Kavli’s investment in neuroscience at Rockefeller will enable us to create and share new research approaches and laboratory technologies to capture the possibilities of neuroscience from the micro to the macro level,” said Rockefeller President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD. “

Web Information

Kavli Foundation web page: http://www.kavlifoundation.org/rockefeller-university

About Kavlin NSI

Neuroscience is undergoing a convergence with fields such as bioengineering, nanoscience, and computer science that is expected to accelerate in the coming decades. The Kavli Neural Systems Institute (Kavli NSI) aims to be at the forefront of that shift, where multidisciplinary teams of scientists will work to develop new tools and novel approaches to meet the very biggest challenge’s in neuroscience.

The Kavli NSI fosters collaboration among Rockefeller’s dynamic community of scientists, including faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Together, they seek to generate new knowledge about the brain at many levels, from molecules to cells, and from circuits to the whole brain. The ultimate goal is to integrate these different neural systems into a comprehensive view of the brain.

Centered around 76 cutting-edge laboratories working in a broad range of fields, The Rockefeller University fosters a collaborative research environment for its faculty and provides an innovative educational experience for its outstanding graduate students and postdoc researchers.

To help reduce artificial barriers and provide its investigators with the greatest degree of freedom, Rockefeller does not have academic departments. As a result, the university is not constrained to perform research in any particular field and can recruit the most accomplished and gifted investigators across a wide spectrum of disciplines in the sciences.

Web Information

Website: rockefeller.edu/ Wikipedia Entry: wiki/Rockefeller_University Brain Initiative Grant – “Remote regulation of neural activity”

Contact Information

Email: contacts Phone: 212-327-8000 Address: The Rockefeller University | 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065

Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research

The Fisher Center is a nexus for Alzheimer’s disease research at Rockefeller. The center’s scientists use state-of-the-art technologies to expand and accelerate Alzheimer’s research and lay the foundation for new treatment strategies.

The center’s investigations build on Alzheimer’s studies conducted in Rockefeller University labs, particularly research focused on how the cells of the brain process the amyloid precursor protein (APP). Faulty regulation of APP processing — in which APP is chopped into smaller pieces during normal brain cell ...

Torsten N. Wiesel Professor at Rockefeller University and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior Co-chair of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) and At large member of the Multi-Council Working Group (WCWG) for the BRAIN Initiative

Cori Bargmann was awarded the Kavli Prizein 2012  and the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2013.  Cori is known for her work on the behavior in the C. elegans, particularly olfaction in the worm.

Web Information

Rockfeller website:  rockefeller.edu/research/faculty/labheads/CoriBargmann/

HHMI pages: .hhmi.org/scientists/cornelia-i-bargmann

Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior: lab.rockefeller.edu/bargmann/

Wikipedia Entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Bargmann

Contact Information

E-mail: Cori.Bargmann@rockefeller.edu Office Phone: (212) 327-7242 Lab Phone: (212) 327-7411 Address: The Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue New York, NY 10065

Biography

From the Kavli prize page

Cornelia Isabella Bargmann was born in 1961 in Virginia and raised in Athens, Georgia, where she attended the University of Georgia. She then went north to study cancer-signalling genes and cloned the oncogene HER2, a key factor in breast cancer, in the laboratory of Robert Weinberg at the Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

After receiving her Ph.D. in 1987, Professor Bargmann transferred to the laboratory of H. Robert Horvitz, at MIT, where she became acquainted with the tiny worm C. elegans. Professor Horvitz had already made major contributions to understanding neural ...