Congratulations to Nuri Jeong on her acceptance to the 2022 NeuroTech Course Workshop! This NIH-funded program trains students in the fundamentals of bringing Continue Reading
Steph Prince awarded Emory Women’s Club Fellowship
Congratulations to Steph Prince for being selected for the Emory Women's Club Memorial Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship supports outstanding researchers completing their PhD. Find out Continue Reading
Ashley Prichard accepted into ADRC Program
Ashley Prichard Congratulations to Ashley Prichard for being accepted into the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center REC Trainee Program. This is a great opportunity for Ashley to expand Continue Reading
New Paper: Learning from Inhibition
Inhibitory Roles in Memory Nuri Jeong's latest paper on "Learning from inhibition: Functional roles of hippocampal CA1 inhibition in spatial learning and memory" is now out. While excitatory cells Continue Reading
Abby Paulson presents her work to Chancellor & Board of Regents
After winning an award for her 3 minute thesis presentation, Abby was invited to present to the Chancellor and Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia and to the President of Georgia Continue Reading
Congrats to Tina Franklin
Tina Franklin Tina Franklin recently won an award for here presentation at the GRC Neurobiology of Brain Disorders conference. Her work received a lot of interest and great feedback at this Continue Reading
Lu Zhang headed to NeuroDataReHack
Lu Zhang was invited to the Allen Institute to join NeuroDataReHack, a neuro data hackathon in October. We're looking forward to hearing about what he does! Continue Reading
Singer Lab at GRC Neurobiology of Cognition
ionNeurobiology of Cognition 2022 attendees Steph Prince, Nuri Jeong, and Lu Zhang had a great time presenting their work and hearing about the latest research at GRC Neurobiology of Cognition. Continue Reading
Paper Alert: Nonplace cells — what are they good for?
Tree and moon reflected Non-place cells discriminate real goals from the fakes. Check out our latest paper led by Lu Zhang with Stephanie Prince and Abby Paulson. Goals are a key part of Continue Reading
NAE Invites Singer to Deliver Gilbreth Lecture at 2022 National Meeting
Singer has received a Gilbreth Lectureship from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and will present her work on neural stimulation for Alzheimer’s patients at the Academy’s 2022 national Continue Reading
Congratulations to Tina Franklin for Alzheimer’s Association Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr. Tina Franklin for being awarded an Alzheimer’s Association Research Fellowship! Thank you Alzheimer's Association for supporting this groundbreaking research at the Continue Reading
Congratulations to Stephanie Prince for TWO scientific awards
Big congratulations to Stephanie Prince for being awarded the Emory Neuroscience Program Scholar of the year AND Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award! Steph has some very cool science in the Continue Reading
Singer wins Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholars Award from the American Neurological Association
The American Neurological Association has recognized Annabelle Singer for achieving significant stature in neurological research and demonstrating the promise of major contributions to come. Singer Continue Reading
New Paper: A feasibility trial of gamma sensory flicker for patients with prodromal Alzheimer’s disease
Our human trial of gamma sensory stimulation or “flicker” in human Alzheimer’s patients based on our animal studies is now published: Continue Reading
New Paper: Alzheimer’s pathology causes impaired inhibitory connections and reactivation of spatial codes during spatial navigation
Our new paper lead by Stephanie Prince is published and featured on the cover of Cell Reports. We found weaker inhibitory synaptic connections onto pyramidal neurons in CA1 during navigation in a Continue Reading
Dr. Singer wins Trubatch Career Development Award from SFN
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 Continue Reading
Your Fantastic Mind Episode on Memory
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 Continue Reading
Online Journal Club of our recent paper
Check out Lu Zhang presenting his paper "Sub-second dynamics of theta-gamma coupling in hippocampal CA1" in JRNLclub, an online journal club: Continue Reading
German Documentary Highlighting our Flicker study
Dr. Singer and colleagues were interviewed for a German documentary "Puzzling forgetting - new hope in Alzheimer's." The documentary will air Thursday 9/19 on 3sat at 8:15PM. Full video and more Continue Reading
Congratulations Abby on receiving the F31 predoctoral fellowship!
Congratulations to Abby Paulson for receiving an F31 pre-doctoral training fellowship from the NIA. The project, entitled "Effects of non-invasive gamma stimulation on hippocampal neural codes in Continue Reading
New paper: Sub-second Dynamics of Theta-Gamma Coupling in Hippocampal CA1.
Lu's paper is published in eLife. Click to check it out or go here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/44320 This paper reports new methods to examine oscillatory brain activity (or brain Continue Reading
Singer Lab study featured in Atlanta Journal Constitution
Our study with the Emory Brain Health Center was featured in a recent edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution: Continue Reading
Anthony and Abby’s paper is covered in the New York Times
Anthony and Abby's Cell paper is covered in the New York Times: An especially insightful write up and commentary from AlzForum: Flash! Beep! Gamma Waves Stimulate Microglia, Continue Reading
New Paper in Cell arising from our collaboration with Li-Huei Tsai’s group
Congratulations to Anthony Martorell (Li-Huei Tsai’s lab) and Abby Paulson (my lab), co-first authors of this cool new paper in Cell. In short: auditory + visual sensory flicker stimulate rhythmic Continue Reading
Dr. Singer Speaks with the Dean of Engineering about Memory
Annabelle Singer and Dean McLaughlin discuss memory, Alzheimer's, and our research in the Dean's podcast, The Uncommon Engineer: Listen to more Continue Reading
Singer selected as National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow
As a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow, Dr. Singer attended the 18th Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium in Nanjing, China. The Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium series Continue Reading
Steph awarded SFN Trainee Professional Development Award
Congratulations to Steph Prince for being selected for the SFN Trainee Professional Development Award. More details here. Continue Reading
Singer lab awarded NIH grant
The Singer lab was awarded a 5-year grant from the NIH National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). We are grateful to the NIH for it's continued support of basic research. Continue Reading
Singer talk broadcast on Facebook Live
Tune in to the Packard Foundation’s Facebook page for live coverage of Dr. Singer and other Fellows' presentations on Thursday, September 6 from 10:40-11:20 AM PST. Share with your lab and colleagues! Continue Reading
Singer Highlighted in GT President’s Annual Address
Dr. Singer was highlighted in Georgia Tech President Bud Petersen's Annual Address to the Institute. See the slides here. Continue Reading
New Paper: Noninvasive 40-Hz light flicker to recruit microglia and reduce amyloid beta load
Our new paper in Nature Protocols describes a non-invasive approach to evoke microglia engulfment and reduce amyloid levels in the mouse brain. We describe how to assemble and operate a custom-made 40 Continue Reading
Neurons Get the Beat and Keep It Going in Drumrolls
This article describes our recent paper: "Some of what researchers believed to be chaotic electric potentials in neurons are turning out the be surprisingly orderly. A neuron firing Continue Reading
Singer named Packard Fellow
Georgia Tech researcher one of 18 innovative young scientists in the nation to receive prestigious honor October 16, 2017 (Los Altos, CA) – Annabelle Singer, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Continue Reading
A New Way to Approach Alzheimer’s: From the Beginning
A new article about our research: Story by Lyndsey Lewis Photos by Gary Meek "Annabelle Singer's research could revolutionize the way we look at the disease's progression. If you keep up with Continue Reading
Bettina Arkhurst won the Laya Wiesner Award
Congratulation to Bettina Arkhurst who was awarded the Laya Wiesner Community Award. Continue Reading
Recording robots are in the news
In Nature, Helen Shen writes about robots recording brain activity inside neurons highlighting our work. Continue Reading
New paper on the auto patcher
Assembly and operation of the autopatcher for automated intracellular neural recording in vivo was published in Nature Protocols. Continue Reading
Annabelle Singer speaks at Boston University
Annabelle Singer presented our research to the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative on March 16th at Boston Universit Continue Reading
DENIZ AKSEL’S SELECTED TO GIVE A TALK AT BMES
Building on the original in vivo auto patcher, Deniz Aksel, an undergrad at MIT, has been developing a system to perform robotic patching in culture for high throughput screening. His abstract was Continue Reading
IN PRESS: BUILD YOUR OWN ROBOTIC PATCHER
Need a robot to do your in vivo patching? Check out our new paper in Nature Protocols to find out how to do just that: “Autopatching: assembling and using a robot for automated intracellular neural Continue Reading
NEW FACULTY
For the 2015-2016 academic year, nine new faculty have joined Georgia Tech and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, including several with a focus in Continue Reading
ANNABELLE SINGER & ADAM MARBLESTONE’S COSYNE WORKSHOP ON NEUROENGINEERING:
We had an impressive group of speakers and lively discussion at our workshop on “Tools and Approaches for Ground-Truth Neuroscience.” Thank you Viviana Gradinaru, Fei Chen, Paul Tillberg, Albert Lee, Continue Reading