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Nuri recognized by GRC Neurobiology of Cognition

February 24, 2023 by Annabelle Singer

Congratulations to Nuri Jeong for being invited to present a research talk and for receiving a travel award from the Neurobiology of Cognition Gordon Research Conference. Nuri's talk described her Continue Reading

Nuri accepted to NeuroTech Course

August 13, 2022 by Annabelle Singer

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

August 13, 2022 by Annabelle Singer

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

August 13, 2022 by Annabelle Singer

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

August 13, 2022 by Annabelle Singer

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

August 12, 2022 by Annabelle Singer

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

August 12, 2022 by Annabelle Singer

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

August 12, 2022 by Annabelle Singer

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

August 12, 2022 by Annabelle Singer

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?

August 12, 2022 by Annabelle Singer

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

December 21, 2021 by Annabelle Singer

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

November 18, 2021 by Annabelle Singer

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

November 18, 2021 by Annabelle Singer

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

July 26, 2021 by Annabelle Singer

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

June 9, 2021 by Annabelle Singer

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

June 9, 2021 by Annabelle Singer

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

Qiliang He earns Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award

March 11, 2021 by Matthew Goodson

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 Continue Reading

Abby Paulson receives J. Norman and Rosalyn Wells Fellowship Award

March 9, 2021 by Matthew Goodson

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. Continue Reading

Dr. Singer wins Trubatch Career Development Award from SFN

January 19, 2021 by Annabelle Singer

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

October 13, 2020 by Annabelle Singer

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

Nuri Jeong awarded Research Fellowship in Neuroscience

July 26, 2020 by Matthew Attokaren

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

Online Journal Club of our recent paper

October 1, 2019 by Annabelle Singer

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

September 18, 2019 by Annabelle Singer

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!

September 11, 2019 by Annabelle Singer

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.

August 16, 2019 by Annabelle Singer

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

June 18, 2019 by Annabelle Singer

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

March 15, 2019 by Annabelle Singer

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

March 15, 2019 by Annabelle Singer

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

February 3, 2019 by Annabelle Singer

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

October 22, 2018 by Annabelle Singer

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

Singer lab awarded NIH grant

September 12, 2018 by Annabelle Singer

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

August 31, 2018 by Annabelle Singer

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

August 31, 2018 by Annabelle Singer

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

August 13, 2018 by Annabelle Singer

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

A visit from the Queen Bee, GT First Lady Val Peterson and the spouses of the Georgia Board of Regents

April 17, 2018 by Matthew Attokaren

Today we hosted GT First Lady, Val Peterson and spouses of the Georgia Board of Regents.  Abby gave a presentation about our lab research, and Matty and Abby gave them a tour of the Neurolab. Continue Reading

Neurons Get the Beat and Keep It Going in Drumrolls

March 1, 2018 by Annabelle Singer

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

Multi-neuron intracellular recording in vivo via interacting autopatching robots

January 3, 2018 by Matthew Attokaren

The activities of groups of neurons in a circuit or brain region are important for neuronal computations that contribute to behaviors and disease states. Traditional extracellular recordings have been Continue Reading

New Article: Evidence for long-timescale patterns of synaptic inputs in CA1 of awake behaving mice

December 26, 2017 by Matthew Attokaren

Repeated sequences of neural activity are a pervasive feature of neural networks in vivo and in vitro. In the hippocampus, sequential firing of many neurons over 100-300 ms periods re-occurs during Continue Reading

Singer named Packard Fellow

October 16, 2017 by Annabelle Singer

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

WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY?

September 3, 2017 by Matthew Attokaren

From The Biomedical Scientist "Finding a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia, is one of the key challenges for modern science, and a research team in the US might Continue Reading

New Paper: Mesoscale-duration activated states gate spiking in response to fast rises in membrane voltage in the awake brain

August 30, 2017 by Matthew Attokaren

Published Tue, 01 Aug 2017 in Journal of Neurophysiology "Seconds-scale network states, affecting many neurons within a network, modulate neural activity by complementing fast integration of Continue Reading

Congratulations to Abby Paulson for winning the Elder Health Scholarship

August 30, 2017 by Matthew Attokaren

Abby Paulson won the Elder Health Scholarship from the Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Authority of Fulton County for her outstanding academic record and her commitment to and potential Continue Reading

A New Way to Approach Alzheimer’s: From the Beginning

March 13, 2017 by Annabelle Singer

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

New paper: An innovative and groundbreaking approach to combating Alzheimer’s

December 8, 2016 by Shirin Kale

Newly published in Nature : “Gamma frequency entrainment attenuates amyloid load and modifies microglia.” Disrupted gamma rhythms—oscillations in the brain's neuronal circuits at around 20–50 Continue Reading

Bettina Arkhurst won the Laya Wiesner Award

June 5, 2016 by Annabelle Singer

Congratulation to Bettina Arkhurst who was awarded the Laya Wiesner Community Award. Continue Reading

Recording robots are in the news

June 5, 2016 by Annabelle Singer

In Nature, Helen Shen writes about robots recording brain activity inside neurons highlighting our work.   Continue Reading

New paper on the auto patcher

June 5, 2016 by Annabelle Singer

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

June 5, 2016 by Annabelle Singer

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

January 16, 2016 by Annabelle Singer

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

January 16, 2016 by Annabelle Singer

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

January 16, 2016 by Annabelle Singer

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:

January 16, 2016 by Annabelle Singer

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

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