Catherine Peña, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, has received the Society for Neuroscience’s…

For the first time, two senior postdoctoral researchers earned the annual Innovator Awards this year at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI), along with the traditional two awards reserved for pairs of collaborating interdisciplinary faculty members.

“There’s a dearth of funding opportunities for senior postdoctoral researchers,”…

Work led by psychology graduate student Zaid Zada in the lab of PNI professor Uri Hasson, Ph.D. finds that when people are talking with each other, spoken words, rather than body language or tone of voice,…

Congratulations to PNI professor Ilana Witten, Ph.D., who was just named an Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator! Witten will receive nearly $11 million over seven years as part of the award, which will support her research on how the brain learns and decides in complex environments, such as when there are multiple paths to a…

PNI graduate student Priscilla Louis, and her advisors, PNI associate director and associate professor Tim Buschman, Ph.D. and PNI assistant professor…

Lindsey Brown, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of PNI professor…

Dr. Meenakshi Asokan named Jane Coffin Childs Fellow 

PNI's Annegret Falkner is among the ten neuroscientists to receive the 2024 McKnight Scholar Award.

The McKnight Scholar Awards are granted to young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and research careers and who have demonstrated a commitment to neuroscience. Since the award was…

John Ngai, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative, and U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman visited in May with Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) researchers to discuss recent advances toward understanding the fundamental workings of the brain.

For fruit flies, love is not blind. During courtship, a male fruit fly relies on his sense of vision to pursue a female fruit fly—if she is far away, he will speed up; if she is to the left, he will turn left; if she is close, he will serenade her with a complex acoustic signal generated by vibrating his wings. But how does the visual…

Mala Murthy and Andrew Leifer awarded funding through Princeton’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund to map the function of the brain’s neuronal network in unprecedented detail.

Adelaide Minerva has been selected to receive the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year. This prestigious honorific fellowship reflects the Graduate School’s exceptionally high opinion of Addie's scholarship. Addie is a 5th year graduate student in the Peña and Witten Labs, using both single-nucleus RNA…