The National Institutes of Health is seeking applications for the second phase of the Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge. The challenge aims to improve the state of technology to include a programmable delivery system for gene editing and solutions for crossing the blood-brain barrier.
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Neuroscience Training Workshops featuring BRAIN-Initiative Funded Technologies
The Allen Institute will host three workshops featuring tools being disseminated through the BRAIN Initiative U24 Research Resource Grants for Technology Integration and Dissemination. Applications for the workshops are now open.
The Allen Institute, a BRAIN Initiative Alliance (BIA) partner, is hosting the following workshops this year:
Describe Your Neurons Like the Allen Institute
April 8-10, 2024
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Register for upcoming BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network virtual workshop
The workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss the development, automation, and use of single-cell genomics data and cell atlas data to advance neuroscience and brain disease research. Registration is now open!
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Check out the Show Us Your BRAINs! 2023 Photo and Video Contest winners
Don’t miss the annual article recapping the winners of the 2023 Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo and Video Contest, where we cover the exciting neuroscience research showcased in each entry.
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Don’t miss the National Eye Institute’s upcoming Visual NeuroPlasticity Workshop
This free virtual workshop will take place on Wednesday, January 10, 2024, to discuss the circuit basis of neuroplasticity and its mechanisms. Registration is now open.
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Webinar explores research highlights of recently released detailed cell maps of the human brain and nonhuman primate brain
The BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN), an international collaboration of researchers, detailed the exceptionally complex diversity of cells in the human brain and the nonhuman primate brain in a collection of papers published in October in Science, Science Advances, and Science Translational Medicine.
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NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network publishes a collection of papers unveiling the whole mouse brain
A detailed single-cell atlas of the whole mouse brain broadens our knowledge of the brain and increases our neuroscience toolset.
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From the BRAIN Director: Expanding the impact of neuroscience research
The BRAIN Initiative continues to fund cross-cutting and accelerated discovery in neuroscience across a diverse network of institutions and organizations, laboratories, researcher fields, and geographic locations.
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Researcher spotlight: F32 recipient Dr. Lucas Tian
Dr. Lucas Tian is an F32 award recipient who used the funding opportunity to study the neural mechanisms of behavior. The F32 funding opportunity supports the research training of promising postdoctorates early in their postdoctoral training period.
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BRAIN Initiative Alliance Toolmakers Newsletter – November 2023
Have you read the latest BRAIN Initiative Alliance newsletter featuring innovative software tools? BRAIN scientists are invited to share their tools with the scientific community in the Toolmakers Newsletter. These newsletters spotlight BRAIN Initiative investigators with tools, technologies, or theories ready for distribution to the research community to advance neurotechnology.
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