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2026 Pathways to Neurosciences trainees take a group photo with Wu Tsai Neuro faculty and staff. Photo credit: Julia Diaz.
Joshua Barsoian, a 2026 NeURO Fellow
Leanne Williams is the Vincent V.C. Woo Professor, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford Medicine, and director of the Stanford Center for Precision Mental Health.
Denise Balaguera, 2026 NeURO-CC Fellow
2025 Sammy Kuo Award recipients with Wu Tsai Neuro Director Kang Shen and members of Sammy Kuo’s family. From left to right: Sophia Shi, Xudong Chen, Xue Zhang, Kent Imaizumi, Colette Guey-Chi Chen (Sammy's niece), Ji-Il Kim, Kang Shen, Tim Currier, Peggy Guey-Chi Chen (Sammy's cousin), Daniel Cardozo Pinto, Mengting Han, Kwamina Nyame, and Xuchen Zhang. Photo by Ola Hopper.
Husna Ayoubi, 2026 NeURO Fellow
2025 Sammy Kuo Awardees, from left to right: Sophia Shi, Xue Zhang, Xudong Chen, Kent Imaizumi, Ji-Il Kim, Tim Currier, Daniel Cardozo Pinto, Mengting Han, Kwamina Nyame, and Xuchen Zhang. Photo by Ola Hopper.
Eric Zhao, Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar, Interdisciplinary Track, Department of Chemical Engineering
Shwetha Srinivasan, 2026 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar, Interdisciplinary Track, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
A map of the motor cortex highlighting regions tuned more for speech-related movements (red) and arm movements (blue-green) and a particularly broadly tuned region (purple). Image courtesy of Darrel Deo.
S Shailja, Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar, Interdisciplinary Track, Department of Radiology
Monther Abu-Remaileh is an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Stanford Engineering and of genetics at Stanford Medicine and an affiliate of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.
Chloe Bair-Marshall, Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar, Interdisciplinary Track, Department of Biology
Cory Shain is an assistant professor of linguistics at Stanford Humanities and Sciences and a Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate.
David Au, Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Interdisciplinary Track Department of Neurobiology
Kalanit Grill-Spector is the Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, a professor of psychology, and an affiliate of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.
Miriam Goodman, Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford, presented her lab's latest research in a talk titled, "Touch comes first, taste comes next."
Guosong Hong in his lab. Photo credit: Andrew Broadhead.
Associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute faculty affiliate.
Neir Eshel is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford Medicine and a Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute faculty affiliate.
Tim Doyle, Associate Director of the Neurosciences Community Labs at Wu Tsai Neuro, presents a slide on the Neurosciences Preclinical Imaging Lab (NPIL). Photo by Julia Diaz.
Kathleen Poston is a neurologist and division chief for movement disorders at Stanford Medicine. She's also a member of the steering committee for the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Wu Tsai Neuro.
Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Affiliate Kalanit Grill-Spector participates in a brainstorming session with other Institute affiliates at the 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Scientific Retreat.
Guosong Hong looks through a microscope in the lab.
Bruker's manufacturer representative, Saaussan Madi, shared datasets on marmoset brains, which exemplified how isotropic resolution allows precise determination of fiber tracks. Image courtesy of J. Hata and H. Okano of Keio University, CIEA, Kanagawa, Japan.
Christoph Thaiss is a Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute affiliate, an assistant professor of pathology at Stanford Medicine, and a core investigator at the Arc Institute in Palo Alto.
Dr. Kaestner works with a research subject in the Koret Human Neurosciences Lab at Wu Tsai Neuro.
Wu Tsai Neuro and Sarafan ChEM-H researchers get pizza at the Pi Day celebration.
Ravi Nath and Claire Bedbrook stand in an aisle of shelves filled with fish tanks. Photo by Andrew Brodhead.
Moderated discussion with Justin Gardner (Moderator, Associate Director of Psychology at Stanford), Kohitij Kar (York University), Hidehiko Inagaki (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience), Janice Chen (Johns Hopkins University), and Caroline Runyan (University of Pittsburgh).
Katrin J Svensson, Associate Professor of Pathology
Laura Gwilliams (left), Jill Kries (second from left) and other members of the Gwilliams lab discuss the neuroscience of language. In the lab's latest paper, Kries, Gwilliams, and KU Leuven's Maaike Vandermosten investigated the underlying mechanisms of post-stroke aphasia. Image by Jess Alvarenga.
Vinod Menon, Rachel L. and Walter F. Nichols, MD., Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at Stanford Medicine, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute affiliate.
2026 Big Ideas in Neuroscience Awardees. Top row, from left: Laura Gwilliams, Katrin Svensson, Julia Kaltschmidt, Lauren O’Connell. 2nd row, from left: Longzhi Tan, Nirao Shah, Jaimie Henderson, Frank Willet. 3rd row, from left: Cory Shain, Luis de Lecea, Christoph Thaiss, Tom Clandinin. Bottom row, from left: Will Allen, Xiaojie Qiu, Guosong Hong, Xiaoke Chen.
In normal flies (left), the axons of a specific type of olfactory receptor neurons (green) do not connect with dendrites of another type of projection neurons (magenta). In the rewired flies (right), green axons are retargeted to match part of the magenta dendrites. Image credit: Courtesy Cheng Lyu.
John Huguenard introduces his lab at the Labs Spotlight happy hour.
Stanford researchers smile for the photo as they write cards for senior citizens. From left: Kenji Marshall, Sabrina Liu, Alisa Hathaway, Michelle Hedlund.
Symposium organizers Julia Kaltschmidt and Todd Coleman introduce the day's topics.
From Our Neurons to Yours. Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University.
Erin Kunz is a postdoctoral scholar in the Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford Medicine. She earned her PhD in electrical engineering in 2025 as Ketterer-Vorwald Neurosciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at Wu Tsai Neuro.
Confocal light micrograph of a synaptic conjugation between three dimensional (3D) human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived brain organoids grown on an organ-on-chip (OOC) system. An OOC is a multi-channel 3D microfluidic cell culture. Organoids are miniature, simplified versions of organs grown in the laboratory. These organoids are being grown to study neural tube formation and neuronal development. Image credit: Arthur Chien, Science Photo Library.
Brian Knutson is a professor of psychology in Stanford's School or Humanities and Sciences, a Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute affiliate, and a leader of the NeuroChoice Big Ideas in Neuroscience Initiative.
Tim Doyle, Director of Wu Tsai Neuro's Community Labs, shares MRI images from the Neurosciences Preclinical Imaging Lab (NPIL), one of the community labs at Wu Tsai Neuro.
Signal Awards. 4th Annual Signal Award Winner. From Our Neurons to Yours, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University.
From Our Neurons to Yours, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University
NIH Directors Transformative Research Award
Image of the Stanford Discovery walk.
From Our Neurons to Yours, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University
2025 Seed Grant awardees (10 awardees across 5 projects)
Koret Human Neurosciences Community Laboratory Director Milena Kaestner (left) and study author Corey Keller (right).
From Our Neurons to Yours. Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University.
2025 cohort of NeURO and NeURO-CC fellows.
Muina Zaman, 2025 Neurosciences Undergraduate Research Opportunity, Community College (NeURO-CC) Student
Aljona Reyno, 2025 Neurosciences Undergraduate Research Opportunity, Community College (NeURO-CC) Fellow
Jillian Quach, 2025 Neurosciences Undergraduate Research Opportunity (NeURO) Fellow
Manuel Moya, 2025 Neurosciences Undergraduate Research Opportunity, Community College (NeURO-CC) Fellow
Kelly Mac, 2025 Neurosciences Undergraduate Research Opportunity, Community College (NeURO-CC) Fellow
Bruce McCandliss, the Piggott Family Professor in Stanford's Graduate School of Education, and a Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute affiliate.