Neuroimaging pilot grants, upcoming events, and more

Institute Announcements

NPIL Symposium and Pilot Grant Awardees

The Neurosciences Preclinical Imaging Lab (NPIL) at Wu Tsai Neuro hosted its 3rd annual symposium and named the recipients of its Pilot Grants.Please join us in welcoming this year's NPIL Pilot Grant recipients!

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Community Science Share Out

The MBCT and NeuroTech student committees at Wu Tsai Neuro?are hosting an end-of-year event to bring together the community and discuss ongoing projects, even if they're in the early design phase. Food will be provided for all attendees that RSVP.?RSVP required — RSVP here.

Are you a Stanford neuroscience student or postdoc interested in presenting research to the NeuroTech and MBCT communities??Sign up to present your research here.

Upcoming events

Year-end Symposium and Research Showcase

Join us at a year-end symposium and brain resilience research showcase, featuring trailblazing research supported by the Knight Initiative, a neuroscience poster session, and a reception for the community.

Thurs, May 23, 2024?| 11 am; Registration required.

More Events

• Neurosciences Seminar Series | Kay Tye - Neural Mechanisms of Social Homeostasis. Thurs, May 23, 2024?| 12 pm.

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Neuroscience Accross Campus

• Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies | Maryam Shanechi - The Intersection of AI and Neurotechnology. Thurs, May 16, 6:30pm. Registration required.
• Center for Molecular Neuroscience in Health and Disease | CMNHD 2023-24 Symposium Series: Cell Biology of the Brain. Fri, May 17, 12:30pm. Registration required.
• Stanford Health Library | Breaking the Silence on Untreated Autism Among Asian American Children and Their Families Wed, May 22, 6pm. Registration required.

Podcast

Wu Tsai Neuro |?From Our Neurons to Yours

Our podcast is back for season 4! Follow the latest episodes, where we bring you to the frontiers of neuroscience to understand what makes us human.

S04 E02 - Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams

Stanford anesthesiologist Boris Heifets discusses studies that could change our understanding of the renaissance in psychedelic medicine.

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Stanford Neuroscience in the news

Wu Tsai Neuro | Exploring MRI's role in neuroscience research on model organisms

A neuroimaging symposium hosted by the Neurosciences Preclinical Imaging Lab (NPIL) at Wu Tsai Neuro showcased the capabilities of MRI in supporting research on model organisms, highlighted the latest advancements and applications in MRI technology, and named the recipients of its 2024 neuroimaging pilot grant awards.

Stanford Magazine?|?Neuropsychiatry and sandwiches

Learn how a silo-busting program to probe neuropsychiatric disease was hatched over lunch with Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Paul Nuyujukian, Karl Deisseroth, Carolyn Rodriguez, and Vivek Buch.

Stanford Medicine |?Lubert Stryer, luminary scientist of light and life, author of classic textbook, dies at 86

Stryer made fundamental discoveries in fluorescence spectroscopy and vision, established structural biology at Stanford, and uplifted young scientists.

Scope Blog | Imagining virtual reality as a simple tool to treat depression

Some of the 17 million Americans afflicted with major depressive disorder each year may soon receive a surprising new prescription from their clinician: Have fun on a virtual reality device.

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Get Involved

Open Applications | Koret Human Neuro Grants

Application deadline: June 15, 2024 Applications for the Koret Human Neuro Grant Program will open this Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Learn more and apply when the application opens.

Other opportunities | Present at the?Community Science Share Out Event

Deadline: May 17, 2024

Neuroscience students and postdocs at Stanford are encouraged to share their research with the MBCT and NeuroTech community. They can receive feedback and insights from multidisciplinary perspectives. This is also a great opportunity for potential future student members to learn about ongoing research in the community. Stanford affiliates, sign up to present your work?here.

Shared resources

Explore the Neurosciences Community Laboratories

Our community labs?are collaborative hubs for?interdisciplinary discovery, engineering, and translational health research, providing shared access to cutting-edge technologies and expertise. Learn more about the community labs.

Brain Omics Central

Brain Omics Central encourages research partners to utilize the?advanced omics technologies at the Knight Initiative's Brain Resilience Laboratory to explore and enhance resilient brain aging. They provide expert guidance in experimental design, state-of-the-art sequencing and proteomics equipment, and access to an expanding collection of unique aging brain datasets. Submit your interest form.

Ongoing Seminar Series

• The?Neurosciences Seminar Series,?held Thursdays at noon, brings together the Stanford neuroscience community to discuss the frontiers of cross-disciplinary brain research. ?
• The?Mind, Brain, Computation, and Technology (MBCT) seminar series?explores ways in which computational and technical approaches are being used to advance our understanding of the mind and brain.
• The?Neurofeedback lunch series?is a postdoc initiative to promote collaboration, discussion, and networking between labs and trainees across the Institute.? ?
• The Knight Initiative's?Brain Resilience Seminar Series?convenes faculty and trainees interested in the science of aging, resilience, and neurodegeneration to share their work and ask questions in journal-club-style talks.

We want to hear from you!

Is there an announcement, upcoming event or news item you want to share with the Wu Tsai Neuro community? Do you have feedback about the Brain Broadcast newsletter? We want to hear from you.? Contact us at [email protected].