Zuckerman Institute

Projects

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• 8 Active
• 47 Finished

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  Relating structure and function in synapse-level wiring diagrams

  Litwin-Kumar, A. (PI)

  9/30/24 → 9/29/27

  Project: Research project

  • Handling Uncertainty 100%
  • Individual Organism 100%
  • Wiring Diagram 100%
  • Microscopy Data 100%
  • Behavioral Data 100%

• Three-dimensional mapping and modeling of combinatorial interactions underlying biomolecular condensates in olfactory neurons

  Guttman, M. (PI), Ma, J. J. (CoPI) & Lomvardas, S. (CoPI)

  9/1/24 → 8/31/25

  Project: Research project

  • Gene Expression 100%
  • Neuroscience 66%
  • Messenger RNA 33%
  • Gene Mapping 33%
  • Facilitated Diffusion 33%

• The Role of Oculomotor Proprioception in the Establishment of Long-Term Visuospatial Memory

  Goldberg, M. E. (PI)

  9/1/24 → 4/30/25

  Project: Research project

  • Proprioception 100%
  • Saccade 100%
  • Receptive Field 66%
  • Parahippocampal Gyrus 50%
  • Entorhinal Cortex 33%

• A Biological Theory of Attention Control in the Framework of Rational Meta-Reasoning

  Gottlieb, J. P. (PI) & Ferrera, V. P. (CoPI)

  8/1/24 → 6/30/25

  Project: Research project

  • Cognitive Process 100%
  • Neurotransmitter 100%
  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex 100%
  • Saccade 100%
  • Neurotransmitter Release 100%

• Chromatin factor regulation of neuroblast progenitor genome dynamics

  Kohwi, M. (PI)

  7/1/24 → 6/30/25

  Project: Research project

  • Genome Organization 100%
  • Neuroblast 100%
  • Dynamics 100%
  • Gene Expression 100%
  • Trans-Acting Factor 66%

• Determining the Sources of Motor-Cortex Response Complexity

  Churchland, M. M. (PI)

  7/1/24 → 6/30/25

  Project: Research project

  • Motor Cortex 100%
  • Brain Areas 14%
  • Nerve Potential 14%
  • Motor Unit 14%
  • Cerebrovascular Accident 14%

• Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: How cell adhesion molecules control neuronal circuit wiring: Binding affinities, binding availability and sub-cellular localization

  Honig, B. H. (PI) & Shapiro, L. S. (CoPI)

  3/1/24 → 2/29/28

  Project: Research project

  • Subcellular Localization 100%
  • Binding Affinity 100%
  • Cell Adhesion Proteins 100%
  • Secondary Schools 100%
  • Nervous System 40%

• Local Circuit Control of Rapid Plasticity and Tunable Ensemble Formation in the Hippocampus

  Losonczy, A. (PI) & Soltesz, I. (CoPI)

  9/1/23 → 8/31/26

  Project: Research project

  • Hippocampus 100%
  • Place Cell 100%
  • Pyramidal Cell 33%
  • Optogenetics 33%
  • Neuronal Plasticity 16%

• AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence

  Paninski, L. M. (CoPI), Zemel, R. (PI), Papadimitriou, C. H. (CoPI), Mckeown, K. R. (CoPI) & Pitkow, X. (CoPI)

  National Science Foundation

  6/1/23 → 5/31/28

  Project: Research project

  • Neuroscience 100%
  • Cognitive Science 50%
  • Brain Function 25%

• Disentangling Self-Avoidance

  Grueber, W. B. (PI)

  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

  6/1/23 → 5/31/25

  Project: Research project

  • Dendrite 100%
  • Morphogenesis 15%
  • Down Syndrome 7%
  • Integrin Receptor 7%
  • Extracellular Matrix 7%

• Dissecting the role of the dentate gyrus microcircuit to improve cognitive discrimination in aging and Alzheimer's Disease

  Losonczy, A. (PI), Hen, R. R. (CoPI) & Fusi, S. (CoPI)

  12/15/22 → 11/30/25

  Project: Research project

  • Dentate Gyrus 100%
  • Alzheimer's Disease 100%
  • Cognitive Disorders 50%
  • In Vivo 25%
  • Optical Recording 25%

• Modeling the development of orientation selectivity, maps, and the associated recurrent circuit

  Miller, K. D. (PI)

  9/15/22 → 9/14/25

  Project: Research project

  • Orientation Selectivity 100%
  • Visual Cortex 100%
  • Orientation Map 66%
  • Primary Visual Cortex 33%
  • Visual Experience 33%

• Revealing the mechanisms of primate face recognition with synthetic stimulus sets optimized to compare computational models

  Kriegeskorte, N. (PI) & Freiwald, W. W. (CoPI)

  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

  7/15/22 → 6/30/25

  Project: Research project

  • Computational Modeling 100%
  • Face Recognition 100%
  • Neural Network Model 100%
  • Neural Network 100%
  • Network Model 100%

• National Science Foundation award

  Sawtell, N. B. (PI)

  National Science Foundation

  6/1/22 → 5/31/25

  Project: Research project

• Metropolitan AntiViral Drug Accelerator

  Perlin, D. D. S. (PI), Rice, C. C. M. (CoPI), Ho, D. D. D. (CoPI), Balkovec, J. J. M. (CoPI), Ju, J. J. (CoPI), Glickman, J. J. F. (CoPI), Symons, J. J. A. (CoPI), Shapiro, L. S. (CoPI), Tuschl, T. T. (CoPI) & Dartois, V. V. (CoPI)

  5/16/22 → 4/30/25

  Project: Research project

  • Antivirus Agent 100%
  • Drug Discovery 66%
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 50%
  • Virus 50%
  • Antiviral Drug 50%

• Structural Biology and Computational Modeling Core

  Shapiro, L. S. (PI)

  5/1/22 → 4/30/25

  Project: Research project

  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 100%
  • SARS Coronavirus 100%
  • Virus RNA 28%
  • Proteinase 28%
  • Alphavirus 28%

• Cortical circuitry underlying behavioral context and learning

  Bruno, R. M. (PI)

  1/8/22 → 7/31/30

  Project: Research project

  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Nervous System 100%
  • Decision-Making 100%
  • Somatosensory Cortex 100%
  • Cognitive Process 100%

• The neuronal basis of social affiliation in zebrafish

  Larsch, J. J. (PI) & Bendesky, A. (CoPI)

  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  1/1/22 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Brain Areas 25%
  • Visual Pathway 25%
  • Gene Mutation 25%
  • Nervous System 25%

• A Multimodal Strategy for a Single Cell Atlas of the Human Spinal Cord

  Maniatis, T. (PI), Rabadan, R. (CoPI), Paninski, L. M. (CoPI) & Rizvi, A. H. (CoPI)

  1/1/22 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Spinal Cord 100%
  • Single-Cell Sequencing 50%

• Systematic investigation of odor representation in Pleurodeles waltl.

  Xu, L. L. (PI), Tosches, M. M. (CoPI) & Hillman, E. M. C. (CoPI)

  Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

  1/1/22 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Medical Research 100%

• Striatal circuits for the control of movement - probing the “relative activity” model

  Klee, J. L. J. L. (PI), Sippy, T. T. (CoPI) & Costa, R. M. (CoPI)

  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  1/1/21 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Striatum 100%
  • Electroencephalogram 40%
  • Parkinson's Disease 20%
  • Neuronal Activity 20%
  • Neuroscience 20%

• A Pulsed Laser Phase Plate for High-Resolution Cryo-electron Tomography

  Fitzpatrick, A. W. P. (PI)

  1/1/21 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Tomography 100%
  • Phase Contrast 100%
  • High Resolution 100%
  • Pulsed Laser 100%
  • Electron Microscopy 100%

• Sloan Research Fellows

  Issa, E. B. (PI)

  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

  2/1/20 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Neurobiology 100%

• Uncovering the neural architecture underlying decisions abstracted from movements

  Wong-lin, K. (PI), Shadlen, M. N. (CoPI), Bickel, S. (CoPI), Kelly, S. (CoPI) & O'connell, R. (CoPI)

  Health and Social Care Northern Ireland

  1/1/20 → 12/31/25

  Project: Research project

  • Decision-Making 100%
  • Brain Disease 50%
  • Cognitive Disorders 25%
  • Eye Movement 25%
  • Neurosurgery 25%

• Sloan Research Fellows

  Bendesky, A. (PI)

  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

  2/1/19 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Neurobiology 100%

• Cell Biology of Neurodegeneration Symposium

  Bartolini, F. (PI) & Polleux, F. (CoPI)

  Parkinson's Foundation

  1/1/19 → …

  Project: Research project

• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative award

  Maniatis, T. (PI)

  Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

  1/1/19 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Single-Cell Sequencing 100%
  • Spinal Cord 100%

• 2019 Helen Hay Whitney Foundation fellowships

  Payne, H. (PI) & Aronov, D. (CoPI)

  Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

  1/1/19 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Food 100%

• Pew Charitable Trust Award

  Behnia, R. (PI)

  Pew Charitable Trusts

  1/1/19 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Locomotion 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Nervous System Function 50%
  • Nervous System Disorder 50%

• 2019 Helen Hay Whitney Foundation fellowships

  Rodriguez, E. (PI) & Salzman, C. D. (CoPI)

  Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

  1/1/19 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Neural Substrate 100%

• Neural Mechanisms of Episodic Memory

  Aronov, D. (PI)

  Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

  1/1/18 → …

  Project: Research project

• 2018 NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator

  Aronov, D. (PI)

  New York Stem Cell Foundation

  1/1/18 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Neurobiology 100%
  • Neuroscience 100%
  • Neural Network 50%
  • Systems Model 50%
  • Learning and Memory 50%

• Mechanisms Underlying Behavioral Diversity

  Bendesky, A. (PI)

  Searle Scholars Program

  1/1/18 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Parental Care 50%
  • Human Behavior 50%
  • Neuroscience 50%

• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative award

  Paninski, L. M. (PI)

  Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

  1/1/18 → …

  Project: Research project

  • High-Content Screening 100%
  • File Format 100%

• Contribution de l'ocytocine au traitement émotionnel de la communication vocale

  Woolley, S. M. N. (PI)

  Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies

  4/1/17 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Vocalization 100%
  • Motion 100%

• Modeling distributed olfactory learning in rodents and insects

  Litwin-Kumar, A. (PI)

  Burroughs Wellcome Fund

  1/1/17 → …

  Project: Research project

• DISTINGUISHED INVESTIGATOR 2017

  Gogos, J. A. (PI)

  Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

  1/1/17 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Neurogenesis 100%
  • Patient Population 100%
  • Central Nervous System 100%

• DISTINGUISHED INVESTIGATOR 2017

  Siegelbaum, S. A. (PI)

  Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

  1/1/17 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Neurogenesis 100%
  • Patient Population 100%
  • Central Nervous System 100%

• Understanding curiosity: a combined behavioral, biological and computational theory

  Kidd, C. (CoPI), Gottlieb, J. P. (PI) & Oudeyer, P. Y. (CoPI)

  Human Frontier Science Program

  1/1/16 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Selective Attention 100%
  • Team Member 100%
  • Developmental Psychology 100%
  • Decision Making 100%
  • Cognitive Function 100%

• Sampling information for the guidance of actions

  Gottlieb, J. P. (PI)

  Ministeriet for Forskning Innovation og Videregående Uddannelser

  1/13/15 → …

  Project: Research project

• Sampling information for the guidance of actions

  Gottlieb, J. P. (PI)

  Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond

  1/1/15 → …

  Project: Research project

• Sampling information for the guidance of actions

  Gottlieb, J. P. (PI)

  Ministeriet for Forskning Innovation og Videregående Uddannelser

  1/1/15 → …

  Project: Research project

• Pew Charitable Trust Award

  Mesgarani, N. (PI)

  Pew Charitable Trusts

  1/1/15 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Speech Processing 100%
  • Neurophysiology 100%
  • Speech Recognition 100%
  • Auditory Cortex 100%
  • Neural Network 100%

• Sampling information for the guidance of actions

  Gottlieb, J. P. (PI)

  Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education

  1/1/15 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Administrative Structure 100%
  • Evaluation Method 100%
  • Tuition Fee 33%

• 2014 Foundation productive lives awardwinners

  Kandel, E. (PI)

  Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

  1/1/14 → …

  Project: Research project

• Sloan Research Fellows

  Churchland, M. M. (PI)

  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

  2/1/13 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Neurobiology 100%

• Autism-linked TBR1 gene in learning-related synaptic plasticity

  Kandel, E. (PI)

  Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative

  1/1/13 → …

  Project: Research project

  • T-Box 100%
  • Synaptic Plasticity 100%
  • Autism 100%
  • Long-Term Memory 60%
  • Synapse 60%

• Sampling information for the guidance of actions

  Gottlieb, J. P. (PI)

  Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education

  1/1/13 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Administrative Structure 100%
  • Evaluation Method 100%
  • Tuition Fee 33%

• 2012 NARSAD Young Investigator Grantees - Basic Research

  Losonczy, A. (PI)

  Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

  1/1/12 → …

  Project: Research project

  • In Vivo 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Pyramidal Cell 100%
  • Hippocampus 100%
  • Interneuron 100%

• In vivo functional imaging and high-resolution manipulations of hippocampal memory circuits

  Bolze, F. (CoPI), Zemelman, B. (CoPI), Vaziri, A. (CoPI) & Losonczy, A. (PI)

  Human Frontier Science Program

  1/1/12 → …

  Project: Research project

  • Dynamics 100%
  • Place Cell 100%
  • Hippocampus 100%
  • In Vivo 100%
  • Functional Imaging 100%