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Doris Ling won the Outstanding poster presentation award, at BPRI Symposium 2023.
Rishabh Chandak won the ‘Outstanding Dissertation Award’ from the Department of Biomedical Engineering! Way to go Rishabh!
Mike Traner received a Cognitive Computational Systems Neuroscience Pathway fellowship (2018)
Alex Chen received the Ralph Quatrano Award for Outstanding Bachelors Thesis in Biology (2018). Well Done Alex!
Doris Ling received the Imaging Sciences Pathway Fellowship (2017).
Srinath Nizampatnam – Finalist in the competition for the James L. O’Leary Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience Research 2017!
Debajit Saha receives a 2-year fellowship from the McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Well done Deb! (August 2015).
Haoyang Rong receives a 2-year Imaging Science Pathway fellowship (August 2015). Congrats Hao!
Nalin Katta receives a Center for Biological and Systems Engineering Scholarship (August 2015). Congrats Nalin!
Nathan King received a 2 year Imaging Science Pathway fellowship (August 2014). Congrats Nate!
Chao Li received a Center for Biological and Systems Engineering Scholarship (August 2014). Congrats Chao!
Paper published in the Dec. 2013 issue of Nature Neuroscience as a Cover article
Barani Raman received the Wolfgang Gopel Award from the International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing, in May 2011.
Media coverage
“Good smells, bad smells; it’s all in the insect brain, ” Beth Miller, WUSTL, August 2023
“A ‘surprisingly simple’ arithmetic of smell, ” Brandie Jefferson, WUSTL, Jan 2020. [Highlighted by NSF ]
“Nanoparticles create heat from light to manipulate electrical activity in neurons ,” Beth Miller, WUSTL, July 2021.
“Locusts help uncover the mysteries of smell, ” Brandie Jefferson, WUSTL, Aug 2018. [Picked up by NSF news and Science Daily]
“Wash U engineers to look at how the brain processes signals in different organism s,” Beth Miller, WUSTL Engineering News, Oct 2107.
“Engineers developing self-powered brain activity recorder,” Erika Ebsworth-Goold, WUSTL Engineering news, Oct 2017.
“$2.6 million to build a genetic toolkit for studying animal behavior,” Diane Lutz, WUSTLSource Magazine, Aug 2017. [Picked up by St. Louis Business Journal]
“A simple sniff ,” Erika Ebsworth-Goold, WUSTL Source Magazine, April 2017
“What a locust nose taught Wash U Engineers about monkeys’ ears ,” Beth Miller WUSTL Engineering News, May 2017 [Highlighted in NSF 360]
“Engineers to use cyborg insects as biorobotic sensing machines,” Beth Miller, WUSTL Engineering News, July 2016 [picked up by BBC , Washington Post , Popular Science, KMOV, NPR , St. Louis Post , Telegraph , Forbes , and other prominent news outlets)
“Raman seeks to replicate the sense of smell with NSF CAREER Award”, Tony Fitzpatrick, WUSTL Engineering News, September 2015. “Locusts provide insight into brain response to stimuli, senses” , Beth Miller, WUSTL Engineering News, April 2015.“Swarming insect provides clues to how the brain processes smell” , Beth Miller, WUSTL Engineering News, November 2013.“Security Innovators”, Beth Miller, WUSTL Engineering Momentum, Spring 2013. “What’s that smell,” “Sniffing out a better Chemical Sensor,” “Pavlov’s moth: olfactory learning and spike-timing-dependent plasticity,” “Moths with a Nose for Learning,” “Neural nets find a niche,” “The Science of Scent,”