Project Grant FA95502310473

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $563,343 to New York University School of Medicine to conduct research on the physical, molecular, and cellular mechanisms regulating the formation of sensory organs during nervous system development. The key research objectives are to: 1) determine how the extracellular...

This $1,761,170 project grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will support research into feedback and feedforward gating of sensory signaling through timing in the thalamocortical loop. The grantee, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will utilize optogenetic and electrophysiological techniques to precisely measure and manipulate elements of the thalamic-cortical circuit in the whisker somatosensory pathway of awake mice. Specifically, the research aims to...

The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $980,000 Project Grant to The Washington University to support research examining neuronal plasticity and the evolvability of behavior through September 2026. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this award will allow researchers to test the hypothesis that activity-dependent wiring changes in response to altered sensory feedback drive coordinated modifications between peripheral organs...

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $727,313 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University to study the neural mechanisms underlying 3D object perception through vision and touch. Specifically, the 2-year award under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372) will: Test the hypothesis that 3D object discrimination through touch evokes distinct, shape-specific neural...

This five-year $700,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at Boston University to investigate hierarchical control of motor circuits in the mammalian motor system. The goal is to identify how high-level regions of the mouse motor system modulate motor patterns produced by lower-level circuits. Specifically, the award will support experiments leveraging optogenetic and electrophysiological techniques to study control of a central pattern generator for tongue movements....

This Project Grant award of $345,702.00 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program supports research on the cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying the coordination of sensory processing and motor control. The key objectives are to: Establish the role of a newly discovered set of antennal premotor neurons in controlling specific antennal movements during...

This $600,407 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into principles of intelligent sensorimotor behavior under informational constraints from September 2021 through August 2024. Funded through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the grant aims to advance understanding of major biological science problems and progress in the field. The University of Cincinnati leads research into how organisms integrate sensory information and respond through motor behavior when...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $1,864,446.00 to the University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct research on the molecular mechanisms that regulate the transition from variable to stable motor skill performance. The key objectives of the 5-year project are to: 1) test the hypothesis that song...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health will fund $2,668,158 to integrate structural and functional datasets to understand how neural structure enables function in the mouse visual cortex. The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco will analyze the largest calcium imaging dataset collected to date from an entire column in mouse primary visual cortex, comprising volumetric 2-photon and 3-photon imaging recordings...

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...