Professor Joseph Esdin, a continuing lecturer in the department is recently named one of the sixth awardees of this year’s 2024-2025 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty.
The Stephanie Leal Lab Publishes New Paper in The Journal of Neuroscience, “Fine-tuning the details: post-encoding music differentially impacts general and detailed memory”.
Coordinated by the UCLA Office of Faculty Development, the Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society recognizes UCLA faculty for excellence in mentoring. The Society, which is supported by a University of California Office of the President (UCOP) grant for faculty development, honors the time and effort that faculty mentors have contributed to the professional development of early and mid-career faculty at UCLA.
In a collaborative paper, the Frye Lab performed live imaging to show the physiological function of molecular gradients of synaptic connectivity within the visual system
Six cross-disciplinary teams of researchers from the United States and Canada have won funding in the first year of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, a three-year initiative that aims to spark new science exploring neurobiological response to rapid and extensive human-caused environmental changes. Professor Leitch is amongst two teams, “Comparative TRPV1 Function in Sensory Adaptability and Resilience to Global Warming” and “Thermal Priming and Parental Care: Investigating Conserved Neural Pathways of Parental Care Plasticity in Response to Heat”
Dr. Stephanie Leal and Leal Lab members’ Review is published in a special issue of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, “Tell me why: the missing w in episodic memory’s what, where, and when”.
Co-Authored publication in Nature by Dr. David Walker is recently featured in the UCLA Newsroom, “Scientists can reverse brain aging in fruit flies by preventing buildup of a common protein”.
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