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…

Congratulations to PNI graduate students who have received NSF Awards and Honorable Mentions:

Awards:

Iain Declan Campbell (Cohen lab)

Jovian Cheung (Falkner/Peña labs)

Yousuf El-Jayyousi (Witten/Pillow labs)

Sae Yokoyama (Falkner lab)

Iman Wahle (Engel lab)

Exciting new work published in Nature Neuroscience by Minakuchi and colleagues from the Falkner lab shows how separate inputs into a single brain region can independently affect aggression. Specifically, it explores the role of inputs into a part of the mouse hypothalamus …

Our brain is bombarded with information every day. Imagine standing in Times Square in New York City, with its flood of sights, sounds, and smells. According to one estimate, we receive about 11 million bits of information per second, which is about the same amount of information needed to stream a high-definition movie. Acting in this world –…

Princeton scientists are peering into the smallest corners of matter using an exceptional collection of sophisticated microscopes — some so big they fill a room. These remarkable instruments have established the University as a world leader in microscopy and led to countless discoveries.

New research from the Witten and Peña labs at PNI explores the possibility that food and social motivations can interact at a cellular level.Animals are motivated by a combination of external and internal factors, which together promote behaviors that…

Research led by PNI's Andy Leifer has provided thus far the most comprehensive description of how signals flow through the brain. The findings could provide new information that helps advance our understanding of how neurons work together as interacting components to process information.

Five new instruments that will unlock discoveries across the sciences and engineering have been selected to receive funding through the Provost and Dean for Research Transformative Equipment Initiative.

Assistant Professor Fenna Krienen participated in an international consortium, funded by the BRAIN Initiative, to uncover cellular diversity in human and nonhuman primate brains.

The latest exploration of music in the natural world is taking place in Mala Murthy’s lab at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute.

David Tank and Sebastian Seung, are among a group working to develop technologies to map the connections across the brain.

Ilana Witten, a professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, has been selected to receive a Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health.