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Decoding Memory In Health and Disease

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Decoding Memory in Health and Disease

Our lab’s long-term goal is to understand how neural activity both produces memories and protects brain health, while using this knowledge to engineer neural activity to treat brain diseases. Our lab studies how coordinated electrical activity across many neurons represents memories of experiences, how this activity fails in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease, and how engineering neurons to produce this activity has neuroprotective effects and engages the brain’s immune system. Integrating innovative experimental and analytical methods, this research will provide unprecedented insight into how neural activity failures lead to memory impairment and will reveal novel ways to engineer neural activity to repair brain function. Using non-invasive approaches, we translate these discoveries from rodents to humans. These insights could lead to radically new ways to treat diseases that affect memory like Alzheimer’s, for which there are no effective therapies.

 

JOIN THE LAB

We are seeking highly motivated and innovative graduate students and post-docs. Individuals with engineering, computational, or neuroscience experience are welcome.  Potential post-doctoral fellows , please contact Dr. Singer to discuss further and be sure to include a cover letter and CV or resume with your correspondence.  Potential graduate students, please apply to the Biomedical Engineering (BME) PhD program at Georgia Tech and Emory or apply to the Neuroscience PhD program at Emory.

NEWS

Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award recipient

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Qiliang He for being granted a Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Fellowship Award  for the continuation of his work on the reversal of age-related memory damage. Read the whole story [HERE!]  

Congratulations, Abby Paulson for receiving J. Norman and Rosalyn Wells Fellowship Award; granted for conducting meritorious research in the areas of neuroengineering or brain tumors.

Dr. Annabelle Singer has been named a recipient of the prestigious Jannett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). The Trubatch Award recognizes early-career researchers who have demonstrated great originality and creativity in their work.  Congratulations to all the 2020 awardees!     More on the 2020 Trubatch Career Development Award […]

On Wednesday Oct 14th at 7PM on Your Fantastic Mind, our research will be included in an episode on Memory showing on PBS. You can also find episodes here after broadcast

Congratulations to Nuri Jeong for receiving the Michael Kuhar Graduate Fellowship in Neuroscience!

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