Brain Research Institute at UCLA

🚨 Attention, UCLA neuroscientists! 🚨

The BRI Knaub Fellowship in Multiple Sclerosis Research application is now LIVE! Two lucky applicants will be awarded up to $10,000 to be used toward MS-related projects following a gift from Knaub Unitrust, generously established by Richard and Suzanne Knaub, in support of MS research at UCLA.

Applications are now available to support undergraduate scholars! All qualified students and researchers are encouraged to apply -- however, first-time applicants will receive precedence over past recipients.

Applications MUST include:

(1) The applicant's NIH CV and a mentor's NIH CV with personal statements related to this award
(2) A description (up to two pages) of the background, aims, and scope of the project (generally in NIH fellowship application format)
(3) A brief budget and justification on the intended use of the funds (up to $10,000)

Criteria for funding include:

(1) Innovative research ideas and technologies with relevance to MS or fundamental biology of the relevant cell types and circuits
(2) Likelihood of the research proposal impacting MS research
(3) Pertinence of mentor expertise and relevance to student training of the proposed work
(4) Multidisciplinary projects will be favored, but all ideas and projects will be considered. The use of UCLA cores is encouraged but not critical. We will support research and not salaries.
(5) Applicants may be asked to give a short 10-minute talk on their project to the Selection Committee if multiple applicants are being considered in the end.

Applications are due by SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2023, at 11:59 PM PST. Please send all documents as one PDF to Joe Quintero at [email protected]. 🧠

Please join us on Tuesday, May 02, 2023, in NRB 132 at 12:00 PM to celebrate the 31st Annual Samuel Eiduson Graduate Student Lecture awardees!

Featuring: Jay Gill (Suthana/Kao Labs) and Joselyn Soto (Khakh Lab)

Online attendees may register here: https://uclahs.fyi/EID-S23

🚨 Attention, UCLA neuroscientists! 🚨

The BRI Carol Moss Spivak scholarship application is now LIVE! Two lucky postdoctoral scholars / researchers will be awarded up to $25,000 to be used toward research expenditures for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Funding can be used toward conference travel, equipment, experiment-running costs, and other justifiable research expenses. This scholarship runs for one year and there is no citizenship requirement.

Applications MUST include:

(1) Curriculum vitae, including career plans
(2) NIH-format biosketch
(3) A one- to two-page description of the background, aims, and scope of the project
(4) A brief budget and justification for fund usage (up to $25,000)

Applications are due by MONDAY, JUNE 05, 2023, at 11:59 PM PST. Please send all documents as one PDF attachment to Joe Quintero at [email protected]. 🧠

Image of the Month: June 2022 - Estrogen receptor alpha immunofluorescence (green color, Alexa 488) in the human macula utricle vestibular sensory epithelium (20 micron thick formalin fixed cryostat section. In red is acetylated tubulin (Alexa 594). DAPI in blue, 400x magnification. Image generated with the SP8 Light Sheet Laser confocal microscope at the ALMS (CNSI). By: Dr. Ivan Lopez

Image of the Month: May 2022 – View of mouse ear neuron derived from nestin-green fluorescent protein labeled neural progenitors cultured in neuron specification medium. By: Araceli Espinosa-Jeffrey

Image of the Month: April 2022 - Mice were exposed to an innate threat—a predatory rat, confined to one side of an enclosure. This polar plot shows the preferred angular-offset-from-threat of a select cell from the midbrain. For more information, see the article by Reis and Liu et al., Journal of Neuroscience 2021. By: Dr. Peter Schuette

Please join us on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at 12:00 pm in the NRB 132 auditorium for the first Joint Seminars in Neuroscience Lecture of the Spring 2022 Quarter Presenting Dr. Mario Penzo. To join online, please use the following link to register: https://uclahs.fyi/3Cno4Vg

Image of the Month: March 2022 - Myenteric neurons in the porcine colon labeled with peripheral form of choline acetyltransferase (pChAT, green), neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS, red) and Hu C/D (blue). The image was created with Imaris-Slice mode from a 3D image after CLARITY. By: Pu-Qing Yuan, Laboratory of Dr. Yvette Taché

Please join us for BRI Joint Seminars in Neuroscience Lecture Presenting Dr. Scott Baraban from University of California, San Francisco, tomorrow, March 1st.

Please register here: https://uclahs.fyi/3LVvdRe

Congratulations to Dr. Megha Sehgal, on being awarded the 2021 Arnold Scheibel Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Lecture. Dr. Arnold Schiebel’s inspirational teaching style has inspired generations of neuroscience scholars, from the children who participate in Project Brainstorm, through post-doctoral students and faculty. This annual lecture honors one postdoctoral fellow for outstanding research in Neuroscience.
 
Recording available (link in bio). BRI YouTube Channel ➡️ “Co-Allocation to Overlapping Dendritic Branches in the Retrosplenial Cortex Integrates Memories Across Time”
 

Please join us for JSN - The Arnold Scheibel Distinguished Postdoctoral on Tuesday, Feb 22nd at 12:00 pm presenting Dr. Megha Sehgal. Register here: https://uclahs.fyi/3DP28BG

The Akin lab identifies neurons which coordinate activity across the developing brain. Read more (link in bio). “A discrete neuronal population coordinates brain-wide developmental activity