DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Neuronal circuits in the brainstem control life-sustaining functions, in addition to driving and gating active sensation through taste, smell, and touch.
Funded Awards
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TitleRevealing the connectivity and functionality of brain stem circuits
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Darwin K Berg, Martin Deschenes, Yoav Shai Freund, Martyn D Goulding, David Kleinfeld, Per M Knutsen
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university of california, san diego
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TitleThe role of patterned activity in neuronal codes for behavior
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John H.r. Maunsell
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university of chicago
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A key aspect of brain function is how the activity of neuronal populations encodes information that is used to guide behavior.
TitleThree Dimensional Holography for Parallel Multi-target Optogenetic Circuit Manipulation
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Valentina Emiliani, Serge Picaud
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pierre and marie curie university
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Understanding communication between neurons, who is talking to whom, and what language they are speaking, is essential for discovering how brain circuits underlie brain function and dysfunction.
TitleTime-Reversal Optical Focusing for Noninvasive Optogenetics
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Viviana Gradinaru, Changhuei Yang
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california institute of technology
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our bodies appear optically opaque because biological tissue scatters light strongly.
TitleTowards a Complete Description of the Circuitry Underlying Memory replay.
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Ivan Soltesz
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university of california-irvine
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The function of a brain region is an emergent property of many cell types.
TitleTowards quantitative cell type-based mapping of the whole mouse brain
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Pavel Osten
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cold spring harbor laboratory
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mouse brain comprises ~70 million neurons and ~30 million glia and other cells. Neurons have been traditionally classified based on their morphology, connectivity, stimulus-response, gene expression, and location in the brain.
TitleUltra-Multiplexed Nanoscale In Situ Proteomics for Understanding Synapse Types
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Mark Bathe, Edward S. Boyden, Peng Yin
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massachusetts institute of technology
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Significant work is ongoing to reveal how different cell types in the brain contribute to behavior and pathology, and how they change in plasticity and disease, empowered by new genetic, optical, and physiological tools.
TitleVascular Interfaces for Brain Imaging and Stimulation
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Robert Desimone
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massachusetts institute of technology
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Functional MRI (fMRI), EEG, and other completely noninvasive modalities for large-scale imaging of human brain activity have pioneeringly revealed many human brain functions, but cannot reach the single-neuron, single-spike level of neural code analysis poss
TitleVertically integrated approach to visual neuroscience: microcircuits to behavior
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Thomas Euler, Andrew D Huberman, Markus Meister, Hyunjune Sebastian Seung, Rachel O Wong
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princeton university
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Visual neuroscience is finally beginning to achieve a "vertically integrated" understanding of the retina, bridging all levels from molecules to microcircuits to behavior.