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Two CNC trainees receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
We are excited to congratulate two CNC trainees who have received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships this spring. Ilse Dippenaar, a Neuro program grad in Adrienne Fairhall's lab, has been awarded one for her work on the generation of variability in birdsong. Matt Helton, an AMATH research assistant in the Shea-Brown Lab, has been awarded a GRF that he will take to NYU where he begins his PhD this [...]
Shanahan Fellow, Sven Dorkenwald, gives 2024 Larry Katz Memorial Lecture at Neuronal Circuits meeting
Congratulations to Sven Dorkenwald, one of our Shanahan fellows, who was chosen as the 2024 Larry Katz Memorial Lecturer for the Cold Spring Harbor Labs Neuronal Circuits meeting in March. The Larry Katz Memorial Lectureship is awarded to a graduate student who has done "the most original and significant work in the past two years on neuronal circuits." Sven has made amazing contributions to the field of connectomics - great work, Sven!
Fellowship opportunity for pre-doctoral researchers
Applications for the Shanahan Undergraduate/Postbaccalaureate fellowships are now being accepted for 2024! The UW Computational Neuroscience Center and the Shanahan Fellowship program have an exciting paid opportunity for pre-doctoral researchers interested in the interface of data and neuroscience. There are three research assistant positions available for current students and recent graduates. Both undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students are eligible to apply. The program start date is flexible but likely to be June 2024. A [...]
Meet the 2023 Shanahan Fellows
CNC welcomed three Shanahan Foundation Fellows in 2023. Click on each fellow's name to learn more about their research. The Shanahan Foundation Fellowship at the Interface of Data and Neuroscience is a 3-year program for recent Ph.D.s to explore complex data in neuroscience at the Allen Institute and University of Washington. Applications for the Fall 2024 cohort are due February 1, 2024. Learn more about the fellowship, here. [...]
Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics + CNC Hackathon – 12/6/23
The UW Computational Neuroscience Center will host our third workshop/hackathon with the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics (AIND) on December 6, 2023, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. PST in the South Campus Center 301 (1601 NE Columbia Rd, Seattle, WA 98195). This year's AIND-CNC Hackacollabathon focuses on analyzing neuronal morphologies derived from large-scale whole brain imaging data. Open to UW and IN-BIC community. Register here. What the collaboration between AIND and CNC [...]
CNC theorists present at NeuroAI in Montreal Workshop
UW's Computational Neuroscience Center recently co-organized NeuroAI in Montreal, a meeting on the interface of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, at Mila - Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, Canada, on October 10-13, 2023. Co-sponsored by the CNC’s International Network for Bio-Inspired Computation, an NSF funded network that links groups in Paris and Canada as well as the Pacific Northwest, NeuroAI in Montreal is the third in a series including NeuroAI in Paris (April 2022) [...]