Research Wire

A team led by Washington University in St. Louis has been awarded $1 million over two years from the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines program to help advance neuroscience technologies.

Martha Bagnall, an assistant professor of neuroscience at the School of Medicine, received a $1.9 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to map neuronal connections.

Rohit Pappu at the McKelvey School of Engineering received a National Science Foundation grant to study the impact of charge regulation on intrinsically disordered proteins.

Paul Taghert, a professor of neuroscience at the School of Medicine, received an Outstanding Investigator Award of nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences to study how the circadian clock orchestrates multiple biological cycles that operate at different phases.

A powerful WashU-built device can squeeze and twist rocks with 100 tons of force. Geologist Philip Skemer in Arts & Sciences explains how his group is using the apparatus to better understand processes that affect the evolution of planets.

Abhinav Jha, an assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine, received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop approaches for list-mode imaging that improve information collection.

Ning Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to address threats to the availability of cyber-physical systems, like the systems behind self-driving cars or energy production pipelines.

Sang-Hoon Bae, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering, won an award from Samsung’s Global Research Outreach Program to explore next-generation semiconductor materials and fabrication.

Ning Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, won a three-year $180,000 award from Intel to support work to assure availability of the Intel Trusted Edge Platform.

Tristan J. McIntosh, an assistant professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study ethical collaborations between academia and industry in the development of brain technologies.