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From the BRAIN Director: New Beginnings

Meet Dr. John Ngai, Director of the NIH BRAIN Initiative.

  • Neuroscience News

Dr. Andrea Beckel-Mitchener Named Deputy Director of NIH BRAIN Initiative

Dr. Beckel-Mitchener has been serving as acting deputy director of the BRAIN Initiative alongside Dr. John Ngai, who was named BRAIN Initiative director in January 2020.

  • Neuroscience News

February Publication Roundup

Evaluating the validity of flexible models… Astrocytes control inhibitory neural synapses… The future of open source optogenetic data in non-human primates… A brain region that can predict the future…

An alternative strategy for identifying mathematical models with correct interpretations

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

BRAIN Announces Funding Supplements to Support Resource Dissemination

A recently issued BRAIN Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) will support the dissemination of promising technologies and resources generated from BRAIN awards, fostering collaborations and integrating these research innovations into research practice.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Enhancing and maintaining a culture of inclusive excellence: The NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Program

A message to the community from the Directors of the Institutes, Centers, and Offices involved in the NIH BRAIN Initiative and NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research.

  • Neuroscience Grants and Funding

Upcoming Workshops on Non-Invasive Imaging Technologies

This next workshop series of 2021 will bring together non-invasive neuroimaging tool developers, neuroscientists, engineers, and industry partners to discuss emerging tools and pathways for disseminating current imaging technologies. Please join us on Feb. 18 and 19, and March 9-11!

  • Neuroscience News
  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Upcoming Workshops on Tissue Quality and Pipeline for the Human Brain Census

In the second of several planned for 2021, these workshops – co-hosted by the NIH BRAIN Initiative and the NIH Blueprint – will bring together experts to explore emerging questions on the upcoming ramp-up of the NIH BRAIN Initiative’s cell census and atlas-ing efforts. Please join us on Feb. 9-11, 2021!

  • Neuroscience News

Upcoming Workshops on Brain Connectivity to Map Mammalian Circuitry at Scale

The first of many planned for 2021, these workshops – co-hosted by the NIH BRAIN Initiative and Department of Energy (DOE) – will bring together experts to discuss neural circuit mapping, connectomics, and challenges in whole-brain mapping. Please join us on Feb. 5 and 17, and March 5, 17, and 31!

  • Neuroscience News

BRAIN Publication Roundup – January 2021

Creating a 3D atlas of nerve innervation in the pancreas…Instinct and experience drive the cortical plasticity needed for maternal behavior…A new central amygdala fear circuit…Shedding light on visual discrimination circuits in primates….

Scientists create a whole-organ 3D atlas of pancreatic nerve fibers in diabetes

  • Neuroscience Research and Technology

Upcoming January Meetings for the NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics and Multi-Council Working Groups

Please join us for two virtual NIH BRAIN Initiative meetings on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 and Wednesday, January 27, 2021. Videocast will be available for the BRAIN Neuroethics Working Group meeting and for the open session of the BRAIN Multi-Council Working Group meeting.

Neuroethics Working Group meeting – Tuesday, January 26, 2021

  • Neuroscience News