Dr. Jill Leutgeb , Assistant Professor in the Neurobiology Section of Division of Biological Sciences at University of California-San Diego, will receive research funding from the foundation for the three year period 2010-2012.
Dr. Leutgeb's proposed research, Neural Network Mechanisms for the Encoding of New Memories, will focus on how information about the temporal order of events is combined with spatial or contextual information within the hippocampus to form a unique memory trace about what, where and when an event occurred.
Dr. Tatyana Sharpee, Assistant Professor in the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, will receive research funding from the foundation for the three year period 2009-2011.
Dr. Sharpee's proposed research, Searching for a Universal Code in Neural Transmission, aims to develop a computational algorithm to analyze the structure of neural code across many different species, sensory modalities, and types of stimuli, as well as across multiple stages of neural signal processing.
Dr. Lei Wang, Assistant Professor in the Chemical Biology and Proteomics Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, will receive research funding from the foundation for the three year period 2008-2010.
Dr. Wang's proposed research, In vivo Visualization of Wnt Trafficking and Secretion in Caenorhabditis elegans, will genetically encode novel amino acids in C. elegans to enable live, in vivo visualization of Wnt proteins, allowing the secretion and movement of the protein to be determined in real time.