This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will provide $183,411 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, to conduct research on how memory contributes to goal-directed attention from July 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026. The project aims to determine the neural mechanisms by which memories guide attention, focusing on the role of the hippocampus. It...
This Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Office of the Director, under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), provides $2,855,400 to Baylor College of Medicine for a research project titled "Uncovering Brain-Wide Molecular Determinants of Individual Memory Performance Across Lifespan." Over a three-year period from September 15, 2022 to August 31, 2025, the grantee will use the invertebrate model C. elegans to...
This $1,717,171 National Institutes of Health National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke project grant supports research at New York University School of Medicine from March 2022 to February 2025 under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.853). The research aims to investigate the neural circuit basis of olfactory navigation in adult fruit flies. Researchers will use electrophysiology and imaging to study how...
This $124,632 project grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will support the development of a testable biologically constrained model for path integration in fruit flies. Funded under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program, the awardee will use agent-based modeling, pattern recognition algorithms on flies' search trajectories, and genetic manipulation to test the roles of specific cells in the central complex of...
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) received a $1,414,340 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to develop and deploy new molecular technologies that will enable the sub-cellular tagging and enrichment of proteins in activated subgroups of neurons in the brain. The goal is to link protein expression to neural function at a large and unbiased scale, which is not currently possible with existing...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) a $722,625 Project Grant under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372) program. The grant supports a 2-year research project to explore the neural circuits and mechanisms of internal state-dependent modulation of taste-temperature sensory integration in the fruit fly Drosophila. By leveraging...
This $660,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at the University of Southern California (USC) on how RNA editing regulates synaptic plasticity and behavioral adaptations in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The project aims to investigate how RNA editing of glutamate-gated chloride and voltage-gated calcium channels impacts neural circuit function, synaptic plasticity, and organismal behaviors....
This $2,306,736 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports research to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying value-guided decision-making and learning. The primary awardee, the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will employ advanced recording techniques and an innovative foraging task to test two key hypotheses: 1) that post-reward sharp-wave-ripple...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $404,340 Project Grant under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The project aims to develop a novel method using split fluorescent protein tags to map the localization of neurotransmitter receptors within neural circuits in the Drosophila model organism. This work will provide crucial new insights into the...
This Project Grant award of $2,286,510 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will support research at New York University (NYU) to develop a unified theoretical framework for understanding neural circuit computations that underlie cognitive processes such as attention and working memory. The key objectives of the research project are to: 1) analyze the role of normalization in the stability and robustness of recurrent...