August 16, 2019
Two graduate students, Aslihan Terzi from Suter Lab and Logan Ganzen from Leung Lab, have received PIIN travel grants. This supports their attendance and presentation at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience from October 19 to 23 in Chicago, IL.
August 13, 2019
The Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience will award up to a total of $1,000,000 to six to 10 project teams for a one-year project period. Additional funding may be available upon completion of agreed upon milestones. Purdue faculty members are eligible to apply. The RFA is the result of the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience (PIIN) hosted a Life Sciences-Engineering Workshop Series to identify major problems in neuroscience that would best be addressed by an interdisciplinary approach spanning the life sciences and engineering. Research areas that have been discussed include addiction, neurodegenerative disorders, hearing science, traumatic brain injury, neurocircuitry, autism, and the gut brain microbiome, although proposals relevant to other areas of neuroscience are also of interest.
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July 22, 2019
On June 24, the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience hosted its second its Life Sciences-Engineering Workshop Series. The three-part program aims to create working groups that could identify major problems in neuroscience with interdisciplinary teams that incorporate both life sciences and engineering. Selected teams will receive funding from PIIN (with the potential for significant multi-year investments) as part of the institute’s key initiatives. The second event drew more than 45 faculty members and research scientists as well as several staff members from Purdue Life Sciences. The program-included presentation from the forming teams followed by breakout sessions to begin identifying potential topics for collaboration.
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July 15, 2019
Four Purdue University researchers have received a total of $150,086 from the Trask Innovation Fund to help their labs commercialize their innovations. The fund is a development program established to support projects that advance the commercial value of Purdue University intellectual property. The fund makes awards twice a year to aid faculty and staff with their patented innovations that are being commercialized through the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization.
$150,000 in funding to advance, commercialize Purdue innovations
July 15, 2019
Hearing loss is so common in today's society, especially in older individuals, that many people question the use of doing anything to protect their hearing from noise and loud sounds. But it turns out the source of hearing loss may have a large impact on a person’s ability to understand speech and enjoy music. That’s the result of a new study from researchers at Purdue University and the University of Rochester that was published recently in The Journal of Neuroscience.
Now hear this: Study highlights the importance of avoiding noise-induced hearing loss
June 17, 2019
The laboratory of Dr. Seema Mattoo recently developed a new tomography-compatible electron microscopy technique called CryoAPEX. This technique, published in the Journal of Cell Science, has been highlighted in the Editor’s Choice column of Science magazine. Congratulations to the Mattoo lab!
Mattoo Lab’s Cryoapex Technology Highlighted by Science Magazine
June 17, 2019
On June 10, the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience kicked off its Life Sciences-Engineering Workshop Series. The three-part program aims to create working groups that could identify major problems in neuroscience with interdisciplinary teams that incorporate both life sciences and engineering. Selected teams will receive funding from PIIN (with the potential for significant multi-year investments) as part of the institute’s key initiatives. The first event drew more than 30 faculty members and research scientists as well as several staff members from Purdue Life Sciences.
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June 13, 2019
The true cause of Parkinson’s disease is still a mystery to researchers, although they do know that in many patients, a protein called alpha-synuclein (aSyn) tends to aggregate in brain cells. But a different protein could help stop that aggregation, according to a new study in the Journal of Molecular Biology. Research was led by Purdue Life Sciences faculty member Seema Mattoo, an assistant professor of biological sciences.
June 11, 2019
As part of its outreach and engagement mission, the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience has been teaming up with other groups on the West Lafayette campus on events targeted at K-12 students. Two of those events took place in April: NanoDays and Spring Fest.
June 7, 2019
Bridgette Tonnsen- Big Idea Challenge 2.0 winner, "From Cell Cultures to Community Cultures: Bringing Precision Health to Autism"
Bridgette Tonnsen- Big Idea Challenge 2.0 winner, "From Cell Cultures to Community Cultures: Bringing Precision Health to Autism"
