top of page

NEWS

LATEST UPDATES

Jan 16, 2026

Congratulations

Announce.png

Tao Hong successfully defends his dissertation.

Dec 25, 2025

Publication

Announce.png

Rhesus macaque choices reveal that ambiguity aversion is driven by pessimistic probability estimates, Willa G. Kerkhoff, bioRxiv.

Nov 17, 2025

Publication

Announce.png

A Multimodal atlas reveals the anatomical distribution of medium spiny neuron subtypes and a novel RGS6+ population in the primate striatum, Ghada Abdelhady, bioRxiv.

Nov 16, 2025

Conference

Announce.png

Society for Neuroscience Conference in San Diego, CA.

Aug 22, 2025

Conference

Announce.png

BRAIN-STORRM Neuroscience Boot Camp at UMES.

May 22, 2025

Article

Announce.png

Pitt and CMU Team Create Breakthrough Tools for NIH-Funded Neuroscience Armamentarium.

May 21, 2025

Publication

Announce.png

Machine learning identification of enhancers in the rhesus macaque genome, Jing He, Neuron.

Dec 14, 2024

Event

Announce.png

Stauffer Lab Christmas Party.

Dec 5, 2024

Conference

Announce.png

NIMH Chemogenetics meeting in Bethesda.

Dec 4, 2024

Conference

Announce.png

Armamentarium meeting at Berkeley University.

Nov 20, 2024

Conference

Announce.png

Computational Complexity of Decision Making Workshop in Australia.

Nov 18, 2024

Publication

Announce.png

Basal Ganglia: Uniting circuit logic between matrix and striosome, Willa G. Kerkhoff, Current Biology.

Oct 6, 2024

Conference

Announce.png

Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Chicago.

Sep 7, 2024

Conference

Announce.png

SimCo 2024, Pittsburgh.

Aug 27, 2024

Congratulations

Announce.png

Tao proposed his thesis and passes - Becoming a PhD Candidate.

Jul 22, 2024

Conference

Announce.png

Gordon Research Conference in New Hampshire.

May 10, 2024

Congratulations

Announce.png

Tao Hong wins Outstanding Research Award from CMU Neuroscience Institute.

Feb 29, 2024

Conference

Announce.png

COSYNE, Computational and Systems Neuroscience.

Nov 10, 2023

Conference

Announce.png

Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Washington DC.

Sep 20, 2023

Conference

Announce.png

SimCo 2023, Chicago.

Jul 24, 2023

Conference

Announce.png

ASAP meeting, San Diego.

May 23, 2023

Conference

Announce.png

Curiosity, Creativity, and Complexity, NYC.

Apr 24, 2023

New Publication

Announce.png

Anterior cingulate learns reward distribution, Tao Hong, Nature Neuroscience.

Dec 14, 2022

Conference

Announce.png

NIMH Genetic Technologies for Systems Neuroscience in Non-Human Primates, Baltimore.

Dec 2, 2022

TEDx

Announce.png

Bill speaks at the TEDxPittsburgh Lineage event.

Nov 28, 2022

Congratulations

Announce.png

Kati successfully defended her dissertation.

Nov 12, 2022

Conference

Announce.png

The lab has four posters at SfN San Diego - Aydin, Jing, Kati, Tao and Willa present.

Mar 17, 2022

Conference

Announce.png

COSYNE, Computational and Systems Neuroscience.

Feb 15, 2022

Conference

Announce.png

Winter Conference on Brain Research (WCBR), Aspen.

Nov 29, 2021

Article

Announce.png

Molecular Fingerprinting of Individual Neurons Paves Way for Cell-Type Specific Therapies

Oct 26, 2021

Article

Announce.png

Placebo-inspired project wins $12 million grant to help parkinson's patients,

Apr 18, 2021

Publication

Announce.png

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences publication on neuronal correlates of rational choices in primate reward signals featuring Bill.

Mar 24, 2021

Publication

Announce.png

Transcriptional and anatomical diversity of medium spiny neurons in the primate striatum, Jing He, Current Biology

Mar 16, 2021

Article

Announce.png

Pitt Neurobiologist Take an Unexpected Detour to Decode Decision-Making

Mar 8, 2021

Publication

Announce.png

Rare rewards amplify dopamine responses, Kathryn M. Rothenhoefer, Nature Neuroscience.

Dec 23, 2020

Publication

Announce.png

Open Resource for non-human primate optogenetics, featuring Bill Stauffer, Neuron.

Apr 8, 2020

Publication

Announce.png

Dopamine Signals Learn New Tricks, Kathryn M. Rothenhoefer, Neuron.

LAB PHOTOS

bottom of page