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A neurotransmitter known to quiet activity in the brain can sometimes do the opposite, researchers find, offering implications for psychiatric treatment.

Oakleigh Folkes, PhD, from the laboratory of Yong-Hui Jiang, MD, PhD, in the Department of Genetics, and Dahae "Julia" Jun, PhD, from the laboratory of Emilia Favuzzi, PhD, in the Department of Neuroscience, have been selected to receive the 2026 Kavli Postdoctoral Award for Collaborative Excellence.

The iPSC Neurocore of the Department of Neuroscience, led by Tanina Arab, PhD, and the STEM Cell core of the STEM Cell Center, led by Caihong Qiu, PhD, are among the recipients.

New insight into how our eyes work could yield deeper understanding of visual processing with relevance to conditions such as macular degeneration and glaucoma.

The Gordon M. Shepherd Lecture in Integrative Neuroscience: "Genomic Insights into the Development, Evolution, and Diseases of the Developing Human Neocortex."

Yale research uncovered how vesicles fuse and recycle, revealing core mechanisms of cellular communication.

Liang Liang, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience, has received a Sloan Research Fellowship, a prestigious, two-year fellowship awarded to the most promising early-career researchers in the United States and Canada.

Yale’s John Eric Humphries, Liang Liang, and Diana Y. Qiu have received 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize outstanding early-career scientists and scholars.