Duke is home to one of the most collaborative and collegial Neurobiology communities in the world. Our interdepartmental Graduate Program in Neurobiology includes 50 faculty in 17 departments across Duke’s integrated campus in Durham, North Carolina. We offer excellence in research and training in a broad academic environment at a premier private university.
On Friday, September 23, Duke Neurobiology awarded the Bill Hall Prize for Excellence in Graduate Research to Justin O'Hare and Alexandra Bey. This annual award was established by Terry Wu, a former postdoctoral student of Bill Hall. Along with the award, O'Hare and Bey also received $750.
In 1959, a scientist named Edward Gray showed that the miniscule gaps between neurons where chemical messages are sent, called synapses, come in two main varieties, which researchers later dubbed “excitatory” and “inhibitory.”
Eight people who have spent years paralyzed from spinal cord injuries have regained partial sensation and muscle control in their lower limbs after training with brain-controlled robotics, according to a study published Aug. 11 in Scientific Reports.
Associate professor Yiyang Gong has been selected as a 2016 Vallee Foundation Young Investigator Awardee. The award recognizes outstanding young scientists at a critical juncture in their careers.
Two Duke University brain researchers who want to solve the long-standing puzzle of human consciousness have been awarded a $1 million grant by the W. M. Keck Foundation.
Wolfgang Liedtke, MD, PhD, traveled to Dublin on Friday, for a joint meeting of the American Physiological Society and the Physiological Society, where he delivered the lecture, “Roles of TRPV4 in brain epithelial and neuronal cells.” Liedkte’s lecture will also be published in a future issue of
Our Neurobiology Graduate Training Program is oriented toward questions of the structure and function of brain cells and the brain. Companion programs with somewhat different emphases include: the Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program and the Systems and Integrative Neuroscience Program. Students should apply to the program that best fits their long-term research interests and professional goals. The research interests of the training faculty may provide the most useful information about the best fit for each individual student.
Our Neurobiology training faculty dedicate much of their time to studying their respective research interests in their laboratories. Each faculty lab has a unique way of approaching their research in Neurobiology.