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New PBio Papers for your 2024 reading list

This year we’re kicking off 2024 with a look at several new PBio papers published at the end of the year. Congrats to all the authors! We are committed to sharing more of our scientific progress with you in the new year. Stay tuned for research and publication updates in the coming months. From the PBio team, best wishes for 2024! A recent publication from the Wordeman Lab provides a protocol to engineer tagged, rapamycin-relocalizable proteins in cells. Production of…

Andrés Barría receives grant from Washington Research Foundation to support research of Alzheimer’s and other disorders

Press release provided by Washington Research Foundation Washington Research Foundation (WRF) has awarded $250,000 to enable Physiology and Biophysics Professor Andrés Barría, Ph.D., to screen for new compounds that could be further developed for the treatment of neurological disorders and synaptopathies including Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. Barría used a previous grant of $50,000 from WRF in 2021 to develop high-throughput screening assays that will be used in this work. NMDA-type glutamate receptors containing GluN2B subunits regulate many processes important to…

Two upcoming PBio faculty papers: One examines neural sampling code; the other examines sympathetic motor neuron dysfunction

PBio is pleased to share two upcoming faculty papers! Dr. Edgar Walker is an author on a recent paper that explores neural sampling code to quantitatively test generative models of the brain: Taking the neural sampling code very seriously: A data-driven approach for evaluating generative models of the visual system is available on OpenReview. Drs. Lisbeth De La Cruz (former PBio Postdoctoral Scholar), Derek Bui, Claudia Moreno, and Oscar Vivas have published a reviewed preprint in eLife entitled: Sympathetic Motor…

Remembering Professor Emeritus Peter Schwindt

July 7, 1940 – September 28, 2023 Peter Schwindt was an exceptional scientist who served the department from his graduate student days until he retired in 2000. Peter, with his long-term collaborator Wayne Crill and many trainees, performed pioneering studies using two-electrode voltage-clamp on spinal motoneurons in situ. Those studies provided fundamental insight into mechanisms that control the relation between a neuron’s synaptic input and its action potential output. Some notable highlights were the discovery of a low threshold, persistent…

Andrés Barría named Assistant Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Research and Graduate Education

P.Bio professor Andrés Barría has been named the first Assistant Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Research and Graduate Education for the School of Medicine. Andrés has worked to push social justice initiatives since he came to the UW in 2005. He was a member of the UW Faculty Council on Race, Equity, and Justice and was a co-chair and founder of the School of Medicine’s Biomedical Research EDIT committees. He also founded P.Bio’s DEI committee. His work…