Importantly, these new faculty will be housed within the Institute’s physical space amid existing experimental labs. Brent Doiron, PhD, Professor of Statistics and Neurobiology, was recruited to serve as inaugural director of the Grossman Center, and was named chair of the Committee on Computational Neuroscience earlier this summer.ĭoiron is in the process of hiring four additional faculty members to join the Center, some to be based in the BSD, but others in the Departments of Statistics, Physics, or Computer Science. The Neuroscience Institute has embraced this unique collaborative approach by launching the Grossman Center for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior, a new group focused on computational and theoretical neuroscience. Theorists and experimentalists working together in tight research groups can develop theories that speak in meaningful and important ways about the mechanisms of cognitive and psychological functioning in the brain. “Focusing on that kind of collaborative approach places UChicago in a position to define this emerging paradigm in neuroscience.” “Deeply integrating talented experimentalists and theorists in such a setting can help overcome barriers to interpreting complex biological data, but it has been attempted in only a few places,” Maunsell said. A comprehensive study of connectomics, or how brain cells form complex networks of circuits, and how those circuits in turn interact to generate higher-order cognitive and psychological behavior, provides a fresh approach to neuroscience because it sits at the nexus between experimental and theoretical approaches. Lasker Professor of Neurobiology, its growing roster of experimental and theoretical faculty have increasingly worked together on unraveling the biological mechanisms of the brain that give rise to perception, thought, memory, and action. The Institute’s initial efforts have been successful in building the neuroscience community across campus, launching a College major, and building collaborative programs.Īs the Institute has evolved under the leadership of John Maunsell, PhD, the Albert D. Over the last several years, the University of Chicago has undertaken a focused effort to build a coordinated and robust approach to neuroscience, spurred by the launch of the Neuroscience Institute in 2014.
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