The BRI provides multiple mechanisms to invigorate research programs and support collaborations bringing together investigators from complementary fields. These mechanisms include:
- Organizational and fiscal support for meetings, program project and center grants, affinity groups, departmental and BRI symposia, and the weekly neuroscience seminar series. For more information, visit Events Overview.
- Facilitation of research cores including microscopic techniques, confocal microscopy, and electron microscopy. For more information, visit Core Facilities.
- Faculty recruitment and retention: The BRI participates in and supports faculty recruitment through BRI endowment funds and endowed Chairs, working collaboratively with UCLA departments and schools. The BRI also helps organize and staff various committees and participates in space planning.
- Oversight of three highly-productive research facilities within the Gonda building (approximately 20,000 square feet of premium laboratory space).
- Organization of an annual Neuroscience Poster Session on the heels of the SFN meeting to enhance intra-UCLA collaborations. The session usually has approximately 200 posters and includes a lecture from a prominent neuroscientist. Recent speakers include Yuh-Nung Jan, Ph.D. and Carol Mason, Ph.D. For more information, visit Special Events.
- Research support via several term chairs/scholarships and donations to enhance targeted areas of research that are cutting edge and generative for the community, including the Leslie Term Chair in Innovative Brain Research, the Leslie Term Chair in Pioneering Brain Research, the Joanne and George Miller and Family Term Chair, Frances M. O’Malley Administrative Chair in Neuroscience History, and the Carol Moss Spivak Scholarship. For more information, visit Endowed Term Chairs and Scholarships.
- Publication of the BRI newsletter, Neuroscience News, which features member faculty and researchers’ achievements and activities. For more information, visit Neuroscience News.
- Communication of neuroscience-relevant information to the academic and lay communities.
- Funding of basic and clinical brain related research through BRI-CTSI Team awards, and more recently the BRI Core Voucher awards.
A computational bioinformatics approach to identifying possible LINE1 reverse transcriptase-like domains in Aplysia californica
Matthew Caliz
Home Institution: San Fracisco State University
UCLA Mentor:...
Addressing the Bidirectional Relationship Between Substance Use Disorders and Sleep Disturbances: A Literature Review
Tania. S. Lugo
Home Institution: CSU Dominguez Hills
UCLA Mentor:...
Analyzing Song Similarity Between Freely-Singing and Silenced Zebra Finches During Sensorimotor Learning Phase
Stacy De Florencio
Home Institution: UCLA
UCLA Mentor: Dr. Stephanie...
Analyzing the contractility of Trabecular Meshwork Cells in the presence of Dexamethasone
Emmanuel Williams
Home Institution: Oakwood University
Affiliated Program: Vision Science Summer Research...
Animal Models of Alcohol Use Disorder: Dose, Sex, and Developmental Differences in Forced and Voluntary Alcohol Consumption
Tamia L. Carter
Home Institution: Norfolk State University
UCLA Mentor:...
Anti-apoptotic Proteins BCLXL and MCL-1 Promote Apoptotic Resistance in Glioblastoma
Shango Rich
Home Institution: Norfolk State University
Affiliated Program: HBCU Neuroscience Pathways
Assessment of neuronal number affected by reduction of an autism-risk gene in primary motor cortex dedicated to vocal learning
Rubi A. Guadarrama
Home Institution: Delaware State University
UCLA Mentor:...
Attenuation of Contactin associated protein-like 2 in a primary motor nucleus impairs vocal imitation: Validation of Methodology
Jahel Guadardo
Home Institution: UCLA
UCLA Mentor: Dr. Stephanie A....
Cell Size Analysis Software to characterize Limbal Stem Cells
Chelsea Thomas
Home Institution: Oakwood University
Affiliated Program: Vision Science Summer Research...
Cortical gene expression is affected by inheritance pattern of chromosome 15q duplication
Hyyat Sabree-Marshall
Home Institution: Spelman College
Affiliated Program: HBCU Neuroscience Pathways
Discrete Non-REM delta band EEG waveforms in a model of Huntington’s Disease
Sonia C. Okekenwa
Home Institution: Fisk University
UCLA Mentor: Dr....
Effect of Timed Propranolol Treatment on Extinction Memory and Heart Rate Variability in a PTSD Rat Model
Marissa O. Coppin
Home Institution: The University of Texas San Antonio
Affiliated...
Identifying genetic links between Recovery and Baseline phenotypes
Faduma Hassan
Home Institution: Prarie View A&M University
Affiliated Program: HBCU Neuroscience Pathways
Identifying the Genetic Link between Sleep Phenotypes and Non-Sleep Phenotypes
Abdullah Hasan
Home Institution: Columbia College
Affiliated Program: BRI-SURE
Investigating Synaptic Correlates of Agility: A Cross-Species Study of Vestibular Synaptic Ribbon Morphology
Isabell Sagar
Home Institution: Harvard University
Affiliated Program: BRI-SURE
Language Acquisition: The Role of Circadian Rhythms and Virtual Reality in Impactful Learning Outcomes
Malcolm Lee
Home Institution: Virgina Union University
Affiliated Program: HBCU Neuroscience Pathways
Peak Alpha Frequency and Developmental Abilities in Infants with Familial Risk for Autism
Krystal Alvarez-Hernandez
Home Institution: California State University San Marcos
Affiliated Program: BRI-SURE
Sex differences in recovery sleep amount are driven by Y chromosome
Giselle Melendez
Home Institution: UCLA
UCLA Mentor: Dr. Ketema Paul
The effect of ASD risk group on infant joint attention
Christina Kingsberry
Home Institution: Spelman College
Affiliated Program: HBCU Neuroscience Pathways
The Effect of BMAL1 Overexpression on Memory Performance in Sleep Deprived Mice
Charles P. Smith
Home Institution: Morehouse College
UCLA Mentor: Dr....
The Effect of Increased Extracellular Serotonin on Sleep Architecture in Drosophila Mutants
Matthew Anderson
Home Institution: Hamilton College
UCLA Mentors: Dr. David...
The Effect of Increased Extracellular Serotonin on Sleep Architecture in Drosophila Mutants
Matthew Anderson
Home Institution: Hamilton...
The Effects of PAX6 on the Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway in cultivated human limbal stem cells
Matthew Dye
Home Institution: Oakwood University
Affiliated Program: Vision Science Summer Research...
The effects of REM sleep deprivation in the extinction of traumatic memories
Gabriel Rojas-Bowe
Home Institution: University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras
The Response of EEG Delta Band Subtypes to Acute Sleep Loss in Wildtype Mice
Melika Madani
Home Institution: UCLA
UCLA Mentor: Dr. Ketema Paul
The Therapeutic Effects of Hydrogen Rich Water (HRW) Treatment on Sleep-Related Disorders in Mice
Cameron Jackson
Home Institution: UCLA
UCLA Mentor: Dr. Ketema Paul
Understanding the effects of darkness on retinal pigment epithelium phagosome degradation
Harjas S. Sabharwal
Home Institution: UCLA
UCLA Mentor: Dr. David...