Hosted by the Kavli Neural Systems Institute, Rockefeller University

The Department of Neuroscience is pleased to announce that the 40th Spencer lecture and award presentation will be held on Tuesday October 9, at 5pm.

The recipient of the 2017 Kavli Award for Distinguished Research in Neuroscience at Columbia University is Jessica Jimenez, a grad student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD) program.

In an attempt to monitor the Ca2+ dynamics of wide brain areas, we made a transgenic mouse (G7NG817) that expresses the genetic Ca2+ indicator G-CaMP7 in astrocytes and a subpopulation of neurons.