Shigeki Watanabe, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Waste management and sustainability are major challenges humans face in the 21st-century. As you concentrate and think about these issues, nerve cells in your brain must deal with the exact same problem—how do they manage their trash? Unlike other cells in our body, most nurse cells must la...
Ilana Witten, Ph.D. Princeton University
One of the most fundamental functions of the nervous system is to form memories of salient experiences. What neural mechanisms enables some experience to turn into permanent memories, while the vast majority are forgotten? There is increased appreciation that offline replay of neural activity aft...
Sandeep Robert Datta, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard University
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are characterized by repetitive behaviors and deficits in the core domains of language development and social interactions. While many ASD patients exhibit deficits in sensory processing, the neural basis for these deficits are incompletely understood. Here, Dr. D...
Samuel J. Pleasure, M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
The global incidence of schizophrenia is 1 percent and of psychotic syndromes 3.4 percent. The U.S. economic burden of schizophrenia is projected as $16 trillion for 2010-30 including the cost attributable to unemployment. Despite this, over the past three decades the FDA has only approved a sing...
Michael E. Talkowski, Ph.D.
Among the most intriguing discoveries to emerge from technological advances in recent years are the insights into how the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the genome influences many aspects of local and long-range gene regulation and function. These data suggest that identifying the specific c...
