Chen Graduate Innovator Grant Awards 2022

The 2022 Chen Graduate Innovator Grant Awards are sponsored by the T&C Chen Centers for Systems Neuroscience and Social and Decision Neuroscience 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.

2022 Awards - Systems Neuroscience

Zach Blumenfeld, Lester lab and Sophie Miller, Tirrell lab
Probing the Mechanism of Action of SSRIs Using Time-Resolved Proteomics

Abdullah Farooq and Jerry Wang, Thomson lab
Pavlov's Paramecia: teaching old cells new tricks

Masami Hazu, Voorhees lab
Biogenesis of Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels

Pratyush Kandimalla, Hong lab
Extracting Developmental Principles for Circuit Architectures Across Insect Connectomes

Tongtong Wang, Oka lab
Investigating the function of astrocytes in thirst regulation

2022 Awards - Social and Decision Neuroscience

Sneha Aenugu, Marcos Gallo, Camerer lab, Qianying Wu, Adolphs lab and O'Doherty lab
Neural Underpinnings of Narrative Improvisation: A Hyperscanning study. 

Brenden Eum, Rangel lab
Value signals in the orbitofrontal cortex incorporate reference-dependent surprise utility.

Aniek Fransen, O'Doherty lab
The neural computations underlying context dependent attribute-based valuation of complex stimuli.

Sanghyun Yi, O'Doherty lab
Behavioral and Neural Understanding of Affordance in Value-based Decision-Making.