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  • Big Biology: A Podcast feature Michael Dickinson

    Big Biology: A Podcast feature Michael Dickinson

    Michael Dickinson is TCCI®-affiliated faculty member and a biologist at Caltech who uses robots to study how insects fly. More recently, he has focused on insect neurobiology and behavior.   On this episode of Big Biology, hosts Art and Marty talk with Michael about the mysteries of tiny insect flight, and how the presumably simple brains of […]

  • Scientists Use a Haunted House to Study Fear

    Scientists Use a Haunted House to Study Fear

    Researchers at Caltech are getting into the Halloween Spirit! Colin Camerer, the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics and director of the T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience and his colleague Dean Mobbs, an assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience and Chen Scholar at Caltech are teaming up with a seasonal haunted house near Los Angeles […]

  • Tianqiao Chen Moves to Silicon Valley

    Tianqiao Chen Moves to Silicon Valley

    This article is a translation of an article written and produced by Thecorestory x Guyu Lab.   Text: Wei Ling, Photo: Feng Xinhui; Editor: Lin Shanshan; Production: Guyu x Thecorestory   You can find the original Chinese article here:  https://www.huxiu.com/article/322707.html     More than money, love, medicine or time, it is truth that gives one […]

  • Chen Scholar, Yuki Oka, Receives Grant to Study Innate Brain Circuits

    Chen Scholar, Yuki Oka, Receives Grant to Study Innate Brain Circuits

    Yuki Oka, assistant professor of biology and Chen Scholar at Caltech, has received $1.5 million in funding from the New York Stem Cell Foundation. The award, distributed over five years, is one of three given internationally to early career neuroscience researchers. Oka is the first researcher at Caltech to receive the neuroscience investigator award.   […]

  • Mending Broken Hearts with Neural Crest Cells

    Mending Broken Hearts with Neural Crest Cells

    Zebrafish—striped fish a few centimeters long—have the ability to regrow up to 20 percent of their hearts after sustaining major damage. Research published in the journal eLife, done in the lab of Marianne Bronner, Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology, director of the Beckman Institute and affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen […]

  • Caltech Researcher Discovers that Male and Female Mouse Brains have Different Neurons

    Caltech Researcher Discovers that Male and Female Mouse Brains have Different Neurons

    New research done in collaboration between David Anderson, PhD, Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience and a team at the Allen Institute for Brain Science recently discovered rare brain cell types that are unique to male mice and other types that […]

  • TCCI® for Translational Research Yields New Discovery —Movie Watching as A Tool for Mental Disorder Assessment

    TCCI® for Translational Research Yields New Discovery —Movie Watching as A Tool for Mental Disorder Assessment

    A research project supported by the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research recently identified an innovative approach to help identify mental disorders – analyzing one’s brain activity while watching movies. The paper introducing this discovery was published in the October issue of the international scientific journal Neuroimage.   This study collected and analyzed the […]

  • TCCI® Supports China’s Largest Neuroscience Conference and Announces its China Strategy

    TCCI® Supports China’s Largest Neuroscience Conference and Announces its China Strategy

    The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Translational Research recently supported the 13th Biennial Conference of Chinese Neuroscience Society (CNS 2019), the most prestigious event in the Chinese neuroscience field, which took place in October in Suzhou China. The conference hosted about 50 symposia, and over 3,700 scientists from dozens of countries and regions attended. […]

  • Researchers Make it Possible for Ultrasound to Reveal Gene Expression

    Researchers Make it Possible for Ultrasound to Reveal Gene Expression

    Caltech Professor Mikhail Shapiro has overcome one of the main limitations to using “reporter genes,” markers that help researchers get a sense for what cells are doing. Because light does not penetrate well through most living tissue, the commonly used green fluorescent protein cannot be used for monitoring the activity of cells deep inside an […]

  • 2019 TCCI Fall Newsletter2019

    2019 TCCI Fall Newsletter2019

    Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the largest festivals in Mainland China and East Asia, so we take this opportunity to wish you a fruitful and prosperous season. Created thousands of