Cornell University Neuroscience

Neuroscience at Cornell University, Ithaca campus, emphasizes an integrated and interdisciplinary approach. The Program in Neuroscience spans several graduate fields and includes faculty affiliated with many departments.

Faculty researcg encompasses neuroscience from human cognition to biophysics, including diverse experimental and computational approaches using a variety of model organisms. Graduate students acquire expertise in their primary disciplines while cultivating a broader understanding of the bigger picture.

Web Information

Website:  neuroscience.cornell.edu/index.html  Neuroscience at Weill Cornell:  http://neuroscience.med.cornell.edu/ BRAIN Grant – “Optimization of 3-photon microscopy for Large Scale Recording in Mouse Brain”

Contact Information

Emailkathie.ely@cornell.edu Phone: (607)254-4351 Address: Cornell University, W111 Mudd Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853

Faculty

About the Program

At the heart of neuroscience is the study of systems. Molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation underlie persistent synaptic plasticity and thereby mediate learning and memory. Decoding the information content of spike trains requires an understanding of the higher-order architectures of the neural circuits in which they are embedded. The adaptations of sensory systems to efficiently encode and interpret natural scenes reflect the species’ ecological niche and evolutionary descent. The analysis of cognitive processes depends on understanding the allocation of metabolic resources, from adenosine triphosphate to selective attention. The larger questions in neuroscience require an integrated approach.

Neuroscience at Cornell University, Ithaca campus, emphasizes an ...

OnAir Post: Cornell University Neuroscience

MIT Neuroscience

MIT has numerous academic and research programs related to neuroscience. Key institutions include the Department of Brain, and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Biological Engineering, and the MIT Media Lab.

Important neuroscience related centers include: Center for Neurobiological Engineering (CNBE); McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) program; Simons Center for the Social Brain (SCSB); Synthetic Biology Center;Picower Center for Learning and Memory; and the Martinos Imaging Center at MIT.

Grant Information

Brain Initiative Grant – “Advancing MRI & MRS Technologies for Studying Human Brain Function and Energetics” Brain Initiative Grant – “Novel technologies for nontoxic transsynaptic tracing”“Novel technologies for nontoxic transsynaptic tracing” Brain Initiative Grant – “Ultra-Multiplexed Nanoscale In Situ Proteomics for Understanding Synapse Types” Brain Initiative Grant – “Calcium sensors for molecular fMRI” Brain Initiative Grant – “Next generation high-throughput random access imaging, in vivo” Brain Initiative Grant – “Cortical circuits and information flow during memory-guided perceptual decisions”

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Undergraduate program

Graduate program

Postdoctoral Program

Open Courseware

People

48 faculty members,over 200 graduate & undergraduate students, 180 researchers and post-docs and 36 staff

Department Head: James Dicarlo, PhD

Department of Biological Engineering

Academic Programs

Faculty

MIT Media Lab

Research

People

Research Centers 

Center for Neurobiological Engineering (CNBE)

OnAir Post: MIT Neuroscience

Stanford Neurosciences Institute

 

Summary

The goal of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute is to understand how the brain gives rise to mental life and behavior.

The Institute’s interdisciplinary community of scholars will draw from a multiplicity of disciplines, including neuroscience, medicine, education, law and business.  Their discoveries aim to remodel understanding of brain function, individuals, and society, enabling positive change and enhancing human potential. Current research themes: The Changing Brain, Cracking the Neural Code, Enhancing the Brain, Understanding Thought, and How We Learn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9s6W77jHHAVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Cracking the Neural Code (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9s6W77jHHA)

Information

Website:  neuroscience.stanford.edu/ Brain Initiative Grant – “Protein voltage sensors: kilohertz imaging of neural dynamics in behaving animals”

Email: neuroscience@stanford.edu Phone: 650-497-8019 Address: James H. Clark Center 318 Campus Drive, Suite S170 Stanford, CA 94305-5443

Organization

Director: William T. Newsome

 

About Us

Our Mission

The goal of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute is to understand how the brain gives rise to mental life and behavior, both in health and in disease. Our research community draws from and informs multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, medicine, engineering, psychology, education and law. New discoveries will transform our understanding of the human brain, provide novel treatments for brain disorders, and promote brain health throughout the lifespan. We aim to create positive benefits ...

OnAir Post: Stanford Neurosciences Institute

Yale Neuroscience

 

Summary

Yale University’s neuroscience research and academic programs are located in the Faculty of Arts and Science and the School of Medicine. 

The interdisciplinary research programs of Yale neuroscience faculty are central to Yale’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP). Other major groups are the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience which awards grants to Yale faculty to support new research initiatives and the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Research which is dedicated to molecular and cell-based discoveries.

Information

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program website: medicine.yale.edu/neuroscience Kavli Institute for Neuroscience website:  kavli.yale.edu/research Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Research website: medicine.yale.edu/cnrr/ BRAIN Initiative Grant– “Development of Protein-based Voltage Probes” BRAIN Initiative Grant – “A Novel Approach for Cell-Type Classification and Connectivity in the Human Brain” BRAIN Initiative Grant – Three Dimensional Holography for Parallel Multi-target Optogenetic Circuit Manipulation”

 

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

The interdisciplinary research programs of Yale neuroscience faculty are central to Yale’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP). This unique, broad-based training program can best be described as a “department without walls,” with the primary purpose of providing students with a maximum of diversity and depth in the most important areas of neuroscience research.

 

Academics

The interdisciplinary research programs of Yale neuroscience faculty are central to Yale’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP). This unique, broad-based training program can best be described as ...

OnAir Post: Yale Neuroscience

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI) at UC Berkeley is an active, collaborative research community that investigates fundamental questions about how the brain functions.

Using approaches from many disciplines (including biophysics, chemistry, cognitive science, computer science, genetics, mathematics, molecular and cell biology, physics, and physiology), HWNI seeks to understand how the brain generates behavior and cognition, and to better understand, diagnose and treat neurological disorders.

Web Information

Website:  http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/ Partnership with Zeiss: UC Berkeley-Zeiss BrainMIC Twitter:  https://twitter.com/UCBerkeleyNeuro Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Wills_Neuroscience_Institute BRAIN Grant – “Classification of Cortical Neurons by Single Cell Transcriptomics” BRAIN Grant – “MRI Corticography (MRCoG): Micro-scale Human Cortical Imaging” BRAIN Grant – ”Optical control of synaptic transmission for in vivo analysis of brain circuits and behavior”

Contact Information

Phone: 510.642.2593 Address:UC Berkeley 175 Li Ka Shing Center, MC#3370 Berkeley, CA 94720

DirectorEhud Isacoff Admin & Staff

Research & Technology Centers

Advances in understanding brain function and brain disorders are often enabled by cutting-edge technology. The Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute fosters technological advances by sponsoring Technology Centers. These centers bring together physical scientists (e.g., from physics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering) and neuroscientists to develop tools for neuroscience research, and apply these tools to advance our understanding of the brain.

Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses (CNEP)

Deep ...

OnAir Post: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Zurich Brain Research Institute

The Brain Research Institute (“Hifo”) is a neuroscience research center in the medical faculty of the University of Zurich.

The four laboratories on neural circuit dynamics, neural plasticity, neuroepigenetics, and neural regeneration and repair focus on basic research topics ranging from molecular and cellular processes to network functions in the nervous system. The main areas of investigation concern the ability of the central nervous system to learn new information and to regenerate after injury, the mechanisms underlying synaptic transmission, plasticity and synapses formation.

 

Web Information

Website: hifo.uzh.ch BRAIN Initiative Grant – “Multi-area two-photon microscopy for revealing long-distance communication between multiple local brain circuits”

Contact Information

Email: helmchen@hifo.uzh.ch Phone:+41 44 635 33 01 Address: Brain Research Institute Building 55 University of Zurich Irchel Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH-8057 Zurich

Organization

Co-Directors: Fritjof Helmchen and Isabelle Mansuy Managing Director: Sebastian Jessberger

 About

The Brain Research Institute (Institut für Hirnforschung, short “Hifo”) was founded in 1962 as a neuroscience research center in the medical faculty of the University of Zurich. The four laboratories on neural circuit dynamics, neural plasticity, neuroepigenetics, and neural regeneration and repair focus on basic research topics ranging from molecular and cellular processes to network functions in the nervous system. The main areas of investigation concern the ability of the central nervous system to learn new information and to regenerate after ...

OnAir Post: Zurich Brain Research Institute

Pierre and Marie Curie University

Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC), also known as Paris 6 has more than 5,000 researchers and professors working in 100 laboratories across four divisions: Modeling & Engineering; Energy, Matter & the Universe; Living Earth & Environment; Life & Health.

The research ranges from fundamental to applied, with the aim to push the boundaries of knowledge and to explore major issues of sustainable development that preoccupy our society in the twenty-first century, including health, climate change, water, biodiversity, energy, and communications.

Web Information

Website: http://www.upmc.fr/en/research.html Wikipedia Entry: wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_and_Marie_Curie_University Brain Initiative Grant – “Three Dimensional Holography for Parallel Multi-target Optogenetic Circuit Manipulation”

Contact Information

Phone: +33 1 44 27 44 27 Address: UPMC 4 place Jussieu 75252 Paris cedex 05, France

Research 

UPMC has more than 5,000 researchers and professors working in 100 laboratories across four divisions: Modeling & Engineering; Energy, Matter & the Universe; Living Earth & Environment; Life & Health. The research ranges from fundamental to applied, with the aim to push the boundaries of knowledge and to explore major issues of sustainable development that preoccupy our society in the twenty-first century, including health, climate change, water, biodiversity, energy, and communications.

Knowledge production happens at all levels, in national and international research laboratories, and with industrial partners through technology transfer and innovation. UPMC has particularly focused on multidisciplinary approaches to ...

OnAir Post: Pierre and Marie Curie University

Gray Matter Research

Principal Investigator: Baldwin Goodell

Gray Matter Research focuses on Microdrive Systems and Recording Chamber Systems. For the BRAIN Initiative, Goodell and his colleagues aim to develop optrodes, which are implantable columns of lights and wires for simultaneous electrical recording of neurons and delivery of light flashes to multiple brain areas.

 

 

Web Information

Website:  graymatter-research.com/ Brain Initiative Grant – “Large-Scale Electrophysiological Recording and Optogenetic Control System”

Contact Information

Emailbaldwin@graymatter-research.com Phone: (406) 672-1915 Address: Gray Matter Research 920 Technology Blvd. Suite 106 Bozeman, MT 59718

 

OnAir Post: Gray Matter Research

Skip to toolbar