Four interdisciplinary research teams at Duke will receive seed money for collaborative research projects on understanding brain function. The teams match researchers across schools to encourage innovative approaches to problems of brain function that transcend the boundaries of traditional disciplines.
The Research Incubator Awards for 2008-2009 are provided by the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, one of the newest institutes at Duke and focuses on building an interactive community of brain science research and scholarship.
The 2008-2009 award winners, by category, are:
Decisions Under Risk: From Phenotype to Mechanism
_ R. Alison Adcock (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) _ Elizabeth Brannon (Psychology & Neuroscience and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience) _ James Bettman (Marketing, Fuqua School of Business) _ David Goldstein (Molecular Genetics & Microbiology and the Institute for Genome Science and Policy) _ Scott Huettel (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience) _ Kevin LaBar (Psychology & Neuroscience and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience) _ Mary Frances Luce (Marketing, Fuqua School of Business) _ John Payne (Management, Fuqua School of Business) _ Michael Platt (Neurobiology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience) _ Pate Skene (Neurobiology) _ Nancy Zucker (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Dissecting Synaptic and Circuitry Mechanisms of Bipolar Disorder
_ Allison Ashley-Koch (Medicine and the Center for Human Genetics) _ Nicole Calakos (Neurology and Neurobiology) _ Guoping Feng (Neurobiology) _ William Wetsel (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes and MEMS Microrobots for Intracellular Neuronal Recordings
_ Bruce Donald (Computer Science and Biochemistry) _ Gleb Finkelstein (Physics) _ Richard Mooney (Neurobiology)
Non-invasive optical measurements of spatially resolved electrical activity in the retina
_ Vadim Arshavsky (Ophthalmology and Pharmacology) _ Joseph Izatt (Biomedical Engineering).