What we are up to

Society for Neuroscience and Elsevier webinar with Dani Bassett, Adrienne Fairhall, Brad Postle and Kate Wassum, on how citation bias develops through literature searches, whom we follow and paper recommendations, and how to build a more balanced evidence base. Watch the recording on SfN Neuronline.

• Fairhall & Marder (2020), Acknowledging female voices, Nature Neuroscience
• Llorens et al. (2021), Gender bias in academia: a lifetime problem that needs solutions, Neuron

Adrienne is one of six invited senior investigators in this six-week program at the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology in Chicago (October 5 – November 15, 2026), and an organizer of its conference on Probabilistic Inference in Neuroscience (November 2–4).

Patrick will present a poster, “Unifying Partner and Environment Diversity to Improve Human-AI Coordination”, with co-authors Yancheng Liang and Natasha Jaques, in Sydney at NeurIPS 2026.

It was a joy to welcome lab alum Barry and program alumna Abby back to Seattle as proud parents of incoming UW freshman Jack. Jack and his twin sister Bella were born while Barry and Abby were grad students. Delighted that Jack decided on UW!

Patrick, Ilse and Adrienne taught at this year's Summer Workshop for the Dynamic Brain at Friday Harbor Labs.

Our AccelNet partners, the Group for Neural Theory at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, turned 20 this year. Congratulations for two decades of excellent science!

Seminar at the School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong.

Faeze Aminmansoor presented her work in collaboration with the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, “Latent behavioral states in a dynamic foraging task.”

The annual CoNECTome meeting of the UW Computational Neuroscience Center, co-organized with the Allen Institute.

New paper in Science Advances with the Engert lab, with lab member Scott Sterrett.

Neurobiology & Biophysics retreat 2025.

New paper in Nature with the Gadagkar lab, with lab member Alison Duffy.

NeuroAI in Seattle, 2022, was sponsored by the NSF AccelNet International Network for Brain-Inspired Computation and the French consulate in San Francisco.

The lab and friends at the UW Department of Physiology and Biophysics retreat.