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What different insights might a playwright and a neuroscientist have about memory? Our own Daphna Shohamy, Alan Kanzer Writer-in-Residence @SarahRuhl and @carolbecker2373 shared stories from their lives about how memory affects their work.

Follow the link in our bio to read more!

Thank you to everyone who came out to our last Music on the Brain of the semester! Through jazz music, we unpacked grief while also shedding some light on what neuroscience has learned about how we process loss in our lives. We hope to see you at our next event in the fall!

#jazz #neuroscience

What can science teach us about brain health? @columbia ’s Daphna Shohamy and other leading neuroscientists discuss the latest research on memory, the mind and brain health with @pbs @wpbt2
Follow the link in our bio to tune in and learn more!

https://youtu.be/RtIN0Qhq0Zo?si=0-pC41WM8kKRfVGQ

#memory #aging #pbs

Congratulations to our own Michael Shadlen, MD, PhD, who was elected to the @americanacad ! This recognition celebrates excellence and leadership in the sciences and across disciplines. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about Shadlen’s research on decision making 🧠

🧠 ✨ Join us for Saturday Science at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute!

On April 25, come spend the afternoon exploring science with us. You’re invited to a behind-the-scenes look at the exciting brain research happening here. Through hands-on activities and interactive demos, explore how the brain gathers information, builds connections and supports learning at every stage of life.

Our programs are open to learners of all ages, children and families!

📍605 W 129th St
🗓️ Saturday, April 25
🕕 Drop in anytime from 1–4 PM

Free and open to the public. Registration is recommended.
We’d love to see you there!

Discoveries and innovations across engineering, climate, and the biological sciences make our list for the latest research at Columbia you should know about. Let’s take a look!

🦟 Columbia biologists found that cells in the mosquito’s gut drive its appetites. The findings reflect a growing understanding of how peptides like GLP-1 can affect animal behavior. 📷 Alex Wild

🔬 Researchers at @ZuckermanBrain are designing ultra-powerful microscopes to help neuroscientists study near-atomic-level details in brain cells.
📷 Fitzpatrick Lab

🦵 Biomedical engineers at @ColumbiaMed and @ColumbiaEngineering are building non-traditional knee implants using stem cells and biodegradable materials—with longer lifespans and fewer complications after surgery. 📷 Steve Myaskovsky

🧠 At Columbia Engineering, a newly developed implantable imaging tool is expanding possibilities for studying deep neural circuits in the brain.
📷 Bioelectronics Systems Lab at Columbia University

🪨 New findings from a @ColumbiaLamontEarth / @columbiaclimate geologist can help explain “the Great Unconformity,” a massive gap in the Earth’s geological record that spans over a billion years.
📷 Nicholas Christie-Blick

🤖 Columbia roboticists are teaming up with @Toyota to make a new generation of nimble robots that can adapt to changes in their operating environments. 📷 Li Lab

For more research discoveries, visit the link in @Columbia’s bio. #ColumbiaUniversity #ColumbiaMed

Discoveries and innovations across engineering, climate, and the biological sciences make our list for the latest research at Columbia you should know about. Let’s take a look!

🦟 Columbia biologists found that cells in the mosquito’s gut drive its appetites. The findings reflect a growing understanding of how peptides like GLP-1 can affect animal behavior. 📷 Alex Wild

🔬 Researchers at @ZuckermanBrain are designing ultra-powerful microscopes to help neuroscientists study near-atomic-level details in brain cells.
📷 Fitzpatrick Lab

🦵 Biomedical engineers at @ColumbiaMed and @ColumbiaEngineering are building non-traditional knee implants using stem cells and biodegradable materials—with longer lifespans and fewer complications after surgery. 📷 Steve Myaskovsky

🧠 At Columbia Engineering, a newly developed implantable imaging tool is expanding possibilities for studying deep neural circuits in the brain.
📷 Bioelectronics Systems Lab at Columbia University

🪨 New findings from a @ColumbiaLamontEarth / @columbiaclimate geologist can help explain “the Great Unconformity,” a massive gap in the Earth’s geological record that spans over a billion years.
📷 Nicholas Christie-Blick

🤖 Columbia roboticists are teaming up with @Toyota to make a new generation of nimble robots that can adapt to changes in their operating environments. 📷 Li Lab

For more research discoveries, visit the link in @Columbia’s bio. #ColumbiaUniversity #ColumbiaMed

Discoveries and innovations across engineering, climate, and the biological sciences make our list for the latest research at Columbia you should know about. Let’s take a look!

🦟 Columbia biologists found that cells in the mosquito’s gut drive its appetites. The findings reflect a growing understanding of how peptides like GLP-1 can affect animal behavior. 📷 Alex Wild

🔬 Researchers at @ZuckermanBrain are designing ultra-powerful microscopes to help neuroscientists study near-atomic-level details in brain cells.
📷 Fitzpatrick Lab

🦵 Biomedical engineers at @ColumbiaMed and @ColumbiaEngineering are building non-traditional knee implants using stem cells and biodegradable materials—with longer lifespans and fewer complications after surgery. 📷 Steve Myaskovsky

🧠 At Columbia Engineering, a newly developed implantable imaging tool is expanding possibilities for studying deep neural circuits in the brain.
📷 Bioelectronics Systems Lab at Columbia University

🪨 New findings from a @ColumbiaLamontEarth / @columbiaclimate geologist can help explain “the Great Unconformity,” a massive gap in the Earth’s geological record that spans over a billion years.
📷 Nicholas Christie-Blick

🤖 Columbia roboticists are teaming up with @Toyota to make a new generation of nimble robots that can adapt to changes in their operating environments. 📷 Li Lab

For more research discoveries, visit the link in @Columbia’s bio. #ColumbiaUniversity #ColumbiaMed

Discoveries and innovations across engineering, climate, and the biological sciences make our list for the latest research at Columbia you should know about. Let’s take a look!

🦟 Columbia biologists found that cells in the mosquito’s gut drive its appetites. The findings reflect a growing understanding of how peptides like GLP-1 can affect animal behavior. 📷 Alex Wild

🔬 Researchers at @ZuckermanBrain are designing ultra-powerful microscopes to help neuroscientists study near-atomic-level details in brain cells.
📷 Fitzpatrick Lab

🦵 Biomedical engineers at @ColumbiaMed and @ColumbiaEngineering are building non-traditional knee implants using stem cells and biodegradable materials—with longer lifespans and fewer complications after surgery. 📷 Steve Myaskovsky

🧠 At Columbia Engineering, a newly developed implantable imaging tool is expanding possibilities for studying deep neural circuits in the brain.
📷 Bioelectronics Systems Lab at Columbia University

🪨 New findings from a @ColumbiaLamontEarth / @columbiaclimate geologist can help explain “the Great Unconformity,” a massive gap in the Earth’s geological record that spans over a billion years.
📷 Nicholas Christie-Blick

🤖 Columbia roboticists are teaming up with @Toyota to make a new generation of nimble robots that can adapt to changes in their operating environments. 📷 Li Lab

For more research discoveries, visit the link in @Columbia’s bio. #ColumbiaUniversity #ColumbiaMed

Discoveries and innovations across engineering, climate, and the biological sciences make our list for the latest research at Columbia you should know about. Let’s take a look!

🦟 Columbia biologists found that cells in the mosquito’s gut drive its appetites. The findings reflect a growing understanding of how peptides like GLP-1 can affect animal behavior. 📷 Alex Wild

🔬 Researchers at @ZuckermanBrain are designing ultra-powerful microscopes to help neuroscientists study near-atomic-level details in brain cells.
📷 Fitzpatrick Lab

🦵 Biomedical engineers at @ColumbiaMed and @ColumbiaEngineering are building non-traditional knee implants using stem cells and biodegradable materials—with longer lifespans and fewer complications after surgery. 📷 Steve Myaskovsky

🧠 At Columbia Engineering, a newly developed implantable imaging tool is expanding possibilities for studying deep neural circuits in the brain.
📷 Bioelectronics Systems Lab at Columbia University

🪨 New findings from a @ColumbiaLamontEarth / @columbiaclimate geologist can help explain “the Great Unconformity,” a massive gap in the Earth’s geological record that spans over a billion years.
📷 Nicholas Christie-Blick

🤖 Columbia roboticists are teaming up with @Toyota to make a new generation of nimble robots that can adapt to changes in their operating environments. 📷 Li Lab

For more research discoveries, visit the link in @Columbia’s bio. #ColumbiaUniversity #ColumbiaMed

Discoveries and innovations across engineering, climate, and the biological sciences make our list for the latest research at Columbia you should know about. Let’s take a look!

🦟 Columbia biologists found that cells in the mosquito’s gut drive its appetites. The findings reflect a growing understanding of how peptides like GLP-1 can affect animal behavior. 📷 Alex Wild

🔬 Researchers at @ZuckermanBrain are designing ultra-powerful microscopes to help neuroscientists study near-atomic-level details in brain cells.
📷 Fitzpatrick Lab

🦵 Biomedical engineers at @ColumbiaMed and @ColumbiaEngineering are building non-traditional knee implants using stem cells and biodegradable materials—with longer lifespans and fewer complications after surgery. 📷 Steve Myaskovsky

🧠 At Columbia Engineering, a newly developed implantable imaging tool is expanding possibilities for studying deep neural circuits in the brain.
📷 Bioelectronics Systems Lab at Columbia University

🪨 New findings from a @ColumbiaLamontEarth / @columbiaclimate geologist can help explain “the Great Unconformity,” a massive gap in the Earth’s geological record that spans over a billion years.
📷 Nicholas Christie-Blick

🤖 Columbia roboticists are teaming up with @Toyota to make a new generation of nimble robots that can adapt to changes in their operating environments. 📷 Li Lab

For more research discoveries, visit the link in @Columbia’s bio. #ColumbiaUniversity #ColumbiaMed

Discoveries and innovations across engineering, climate, and the biological sciences make our list for the latest research at Columbia you should know about. Let’s take a look!

🦟 Columbia biologists found that cells in the mosquito’s gut drive its appetites. The findings reflect a growing understanding of how peptides like GLP-1 can affect animal behavior. 📷 Alex Wild

🔬 Researchers at @ZuckermanBrain are designing ultra-powerful microscopes to help neuroscientists study near-atomic-level details in brain cells.
📷 Fitzpatrick Lab

🦵 Biomedical engineers at @ColumbiaMed and @ColumbiaEngineering are building non-traditional knee implants using stem cells and biodegradable materials—with longer lifespans and fewer complications after surgery. 📷 Steve Myaskovsky

🧠 At Columbia Engineering, a newly developed implantable imaging tool is expanding possibilities for studying deep neural circuits in the brain.
📷 Bioelectronics Systems Lab at Columbia University

🪨 New findings from a @ColumbiaLamontEarth / @columbiaclimate geologist can help explain “the Great Unconformity,” a massive gap in the Earth’s geological record that spans over a billion years.
📷 Nicholas Christie-Blick

🤖 Columbia roboticists are teaming up with @Toyota to make a new generation of nimble robots that can adapt to changes in their operating environments. 📷 Li Lab

For more research discoveries, visit the link in @Columbia’s bio. #ColumbiaUniversity #ColumbiaMed

Join us for our next Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture: The Brain-Body Connection. Wednesday, April 22, 6:30 PM (EST)

Experts will bring together perspectives from neuroscience, genetics, and physiology to uncover what the fruit fly can tell us about our own brain-body connection.

Follow the link in our bio to learn more and register 👆

This lecture series is generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Congratulations @snforg
#humanityatthecore.

A rare opportunity to meet our director, Daphna Shohamy, live in Rome! Don’t miss her talk on ‘The Neuroscience of Memory and Meaning’ on April 14, during Galileo Week at the @amacademyrome.

https://aarome.org/events/daphna-shohamy-neuroscience-memory-meaning-how-brain-gives-value-world

🔭🧠🇮🇹

Una rara opportunità di incontrare la nostra direttrice, Daphna Shohamy, dal vivo a Roma! Non perdete il suo intervento su ‘The Neuroscience of Memory and Meaning’ il 14 aprile, durante la Galileo Week dell'American Academy in Rome.

How does one study memory? What questions do you ask? What methodologies do you use? How does memory construct the present? How do we use it to reconstruct the past in stories, memoir, and dramatic work?

Join us for Where Ideas Come From: Art, Neuroscience, and Memory.

Thursday, April 9, from 6:30-8:00 pm, at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

Playwright and Alan Kanzer Writer-in-Residence Sarah Ruhl, author of Eurydice, Demeter in the City, Passion Play, etc., and Columbia neuroscientist Daphna Shohamy discuss the art and science of memory. Moderated by Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita Carol Becker.

Introduced by Brian Kulick, Chair of Theatre and author of Staging the End of the World: Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis.

Co-presented by the MFA Theatre Program at @columbiaschoolofthearts and @zuckermanbrain

Follow the link in our bio to register!

How do brains change with age? By analyzing brain activity throughout the lives of mice, Itamar Kahn, Gagan Wig, Ezra Winter-Nelson & team found that the rodent’s brain ages similarly to that of a human. Studying mice could therefore be a powerful way to learn more about how our brains decline as we grow old.

Research published in PNAS.
Follow the link in our bio to learn more! 🧠

#neuroscience
#aging

Can you think of someone without knowing it? 🧠✨

How does the brain handle a loss that feels "uncontainable"? On April 16th, join us at the @natljazzmuseum for Music on the Brain: Rewriting the Loss.

Neuroscientist Dr. Noam Schneck (Columbia University Department of Psychiatry) joins jazz pianist and vocalist Kelly Green to explore the "unseen" map of grief. Dr. Schneck’s MRI research reveals how our unconscious minds "distill" our grief into a story we can actually live with.

Kelly Green and her quartet will perform original works inspired by her own journey of resilience—demonstrating that healing often happens in the "autopilot" moments of our lives, like washing dishes or hearing a certain melody.

📍 Where: National Jazz Museum in Harlem
🗓️ When: April 16, 2026 | 7:00 PM
🎟️ FREE and open to the public!

https://zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/music-brain-national-jazz-museum-rewriting-loss

#zuckermanbrain #MusicOnTheBrain #JazzInHarlem #Neuroscience #GriefAndResilience #KellyGreen #MentalHealthAwareness #communityevents

Thanks to all who came to our Music on the Brain event last week! Exploring the intersection between jazz and the science behind our circadian rhythm made for an incredible time 🎷

Be sure to join our next Music on the Brain on April 16th! 🧠 🎼

#jazz #neuroscience