My goal is to discover the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which protein aggregates contribute to neurodegeneration and to harness these mechanisms to devise novel therapeutic strategies. We use the bakers yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, as a simple, yet powerful, model system to study the cell biology underpinning protein-misfolding diseases, which include Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

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Professor Jacobs will consider the intersection between gender equity in STEM and the status of women’s health—not as concurrent phenomena, but connected ones. She will examine critical ways in which progress in women’s health has stalled from the lack of female representation in biomedicine, including neuroscience.
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It is estimated that ~20% of all the visual information falling on the human retina//consists of upright faces. Although the behavioral and neural signatures of face processing have been well studied, not much is known about how long-term visual experience shapes them. The incoming visual experience of faces is thought to have a changeable component (such as expression and gaze direction) and an invariant component (such as the configuration of features).

Rachael Jack is a Professor of Computational Social Cognition in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience and Head of the Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (cSCAN) at the University of Glasgow. Jack's research has produced significant advances in understanding facial expression of emotion within and across cultures using a novel interdisciplinary approach that combines psychophysics, social psychology, dynamic 3D computer graphics, and communication/information theory.

Why Did Einstein Write a Love Poem to Spinoza?

Moving to music: effects of varying auditory cues on motor network activations

A hallmark of the human condition is the experience of continuously shifting emotional spaces. The Lapate laboratory investigates fundamental mechanisms that give rise to subjective (conscious) emotional experiences, determine the influence of emotional signals, and promote adaptive responding to emotional events.