Chen Graduate Innovator Grant Awards 2024

The T&C Chen Centers for Systems Neuroscience and Social and Decision Neuroscience are proud to announce this year's recipients of the Chen Graduate Innovator Grant. The grants are awarded to projects which are conceived and driven by graduate students and are not an obvious extension of other research in their lab. The program is meant to fund out-of-box ideas that would not otherwise be pursued.

Congratulations to these intrepid graduate innovators!  The students will present their discoveries in January 2025.

2024 Awards - Systems Neuroscience

Geeling Chau, Yue lab
Learning to Disentangle Electroencephalography Artifacts

Shichen Liu, Thomson lab
Tuning neuronal morphology and connectivity with microtubule cytoskeletal proteins

Hristos Courellis, Adolphs lab and Rutishauser lab, and Jieyu Zheng, Meister lab
Abstract State Representations in the Frontal Cortex: A Comparison between Mice and Humans

Yameng Zhang, Oka lab
Testing a novel relationship between body fluid balance and pro-inflammation state

2024 Awards - Social and Decision Neuroscience

Sneha Aenugu, O'Doherty lab
Investigating correlates of continual learning in humans 

Surya Narayanan Hari, Thomson lab
Studying emergent phenomena when incepting free will in large language models systems

Seokyoung Min, Mobbs lab
Investigating the role of hippocampal cognitive maps in human threat avoidance