News

Updates on our research, team, awards, and trainee accomplishments.

6/2026 - Anusha Shukla passes her qualifying exam and advances to PhD candidacy
5/2026 - Anusha Shukla wins the NTP Symposium “Systems and Circuits” poster competition
5/2026 - Alek Zafirovski graduates and joins the Joshua Berke Lab at UCSF
4/2026 - Jared receives the C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy
4/2026 - Utkarsha Marasini receives a Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship
1/2026 - Danny Bader (Neuroscience Training Program) joins the lab as a PhD student
7/2025 - Jared receives the Parkinson’s Foundation Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award
6/2025 - Cregg Lab receives a Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant
5/2025 - Amelia Lehmann graduates and subsequently joins the Dmitri Simberg Lab at CU Anschutz

In the Media

Press releases, interviews, and coverage of our research and accomplishments.

The American Association for Anatomy Announces their 2026 Recognition Award Winners

American Association for Anatomy · 05 Feb 2026
Jared Cregg was selected for the 2026 C.J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy from the American Association for Anatomy... read more

Branching out toward new Parkinson's therapies by studying the brainstem

Parkinson's Foundation · 06 Oct 2025
In Parkinson’s disease (PD), specific dopamine-producing neurons in the brain degenerate over time... read more

'Left-Right Turn' Neuron Discovery May One Day Help Treat Parkinson's

Futurity · 12 Feb 2024
Researchers have discovered a network of neurons in the brains of mice that help them make right and left turns... read more

DeepLabCut meets the brainstem: how deep learning for behavior yields insights into the neural basis of motion

DeepLabCut Blog · 01 Aug 2022
How researchers are using DeepLabCut to study the neural basis of movement... read more

The Lundbeck Foundation supports young researchers with 69 million DKK

Lundbeck Foundation · 15 Apr 2021
The grant ensures 33 health science researchers two to three years of funding for their work... read more

Announcing the Speakers of the 2020 Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre · 08 Oct 2020
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour is proud to announce the speakers for the third annual Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS)... read more

'Steering Wheel' Neurons Control Left and Right Turns In Mice

Futurity · 12 May 2020
Researchers have mapped how certain neurons act as the brain’s “steering wheel” to control whether mice turn right or left while walking... read more

Hidden Assets

The Spin · 01 Mar 2018
Recent research from Case Western Reserve University reveals the spinal cord may have the ability to control breathing all by itself, without a connection to the brain... read more

Wonder Women: Young Scientists Help Confirm Presence of Breathing 'Ghost Network'

University of Kentucky · 26 Jan 2018
According to a paper recently published in Cell Reports, labs from Case Western Reserve and the University of Kentucky's Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC) were able to demonstrate the existence of a parallel neural network that could potentially restore diaphragm function after spinal cord injury... read more

'Unprecedented': Drug May Help Heal Damaged Spine

NBC News · 04 Dec 2014
Researchers say they’ve developed a drug that may help heal a damaged spine — the first time anything like a drug has been shown to help... read more