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  • Wed 22nd June 2016

    Society for Neuroscience elects Richard Huganir as next SfN President

    Full Election Results: http://www.sfn.org/news-and-calendar/news-and-calendar/news/spotlight/2016/2016-election-winners

    The Society for Neuroscience congratulates its newly elected officers and councilors. Chosen by members using an independent online monitoring company, the incoming council members begin their terms at Neuroscience 2016 in San Diego.

    Congratulations to Richard Huganir, Director and Professor of the Department of Neuroscience,  for being elected as the next Society for Neuroscience President.  

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  • Wed 8th June 2016

    Alex Kolodkin honored with Inaugural Homcy and Margolis Endowed Professorship

    Alex Kolodkin, Professor of Neuroscience and HHMI investigator, has been appointed the inaugural holder of the Charles J. Homcy and Simeon G. Margolis Endowed Professor of Neuroscience.

    This endowed Chair was established by Charles Homcy, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in honor of one of his professors and mentors, Dr. Simeon Margolis.

     

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  • Thu 2nd June 2016

    Wu lab identifies neural circuits underlying sleep drive in flies

    'You Are Getting Sleepy,' Said The Scientist To The Fruit Fly

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  • Wed 1st June 2016

    Publications - June 2016

    Publications from Primary Faculty Members - June 2016 Hart, RP, Goff, LA. Long Noncoding RNAs: Central to Nervous System Development. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2016 Jun 10. pii: S0736-5748(16)30109-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2016.06.001. [Epub ahead of print] Gomez-Ramirez M, Hysaj K, Niebur E. Neural mechanisms of selective attention in the somatosensory system. J Neurophysiol. 2016 Jun 22:jn.00637.2015. doi: 10.1152/jn.00637.2015. [Epub ahead of print] Lin CC, Potter CJ. Editi...

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