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USC Team Shows How Memories Are Stored in The Brain, With Potential Impact on Conditions Like PTSD
Fish that glow; a tailor-made microscope; a new way to catalog science. After six years, researchers produce the first snapshots of memory in a living animal.

A Researcher’s Best Friend: USC Helps Provide A Wealth of Data, Insights in the Fight Against Urinary, Reproductive Diseases
Under the coordination of USC ISI, GUDMAP supports research organizations from around the world working together to investigate and understand the genitourinary tract

USC-led Research Team Shares 10 Years’ Progress in Collecting Data to Push Craniofacial Science Forward
The Facebase research team, which includes ISI’s Carl Kesselman, shares some of its decade’s worth of datasets and invites new contributors to participate.

USC-Designed Smartphone App Aims to Get Older Adults “Moving Up”
Less than 10% of people aged 65 and up meet the national guidelines for physical activity. USC researchers are seeking to increase this figure through Moving Up, a mobile phone app geared toward older adults.

Carl Kesselman Honored with IEEE Medal for Career Achievements in Computing
Dean’s Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Information Sciences Institute Fellow has been awarded the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award.

USC researchers receive $12.5M grant for craniofacial research data-sharing endeavor
The project, FaceBase III Data Management and Integration Hub, would put USC on the map as the data epicenter for the craniofacial research community.

New Insights Into Human Kidney Formation Made Possible with Innovative Platform Developed at ISI
USC stem cell scientists used a new “ecosystem of tools” designed by ISI researchers to analyze massive amounts of data to document the similarities and differences between kidney development in humans and mice

Carl Kesselman of ISI and USC Viterbi to help develop a powerful national NIH Data Commons Platform
The virtual, cloud-based platform will help researchers share and manage vast amounts of data online.

Sure, You Liked Mad Men, But Did it Change Your Life?
USC Viterbi and Annenberg schools measure media impact