Welcome to the UNC Neuroscience Center

 Center News:

• 1/04/10: Pevny lab publishes paper in Cell StemCell
  Larysa Pevny and her lab demonstrate that a specific subpopulation of mouse dermal papilla fibroblasts displyas properties of adult stem cells.
• 11/24/09: Roth lab develops technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs
  In a paper published in the journal Nature, Bryan Roth and his lab developed a computational method that predicts new molecular targets for known drugs including Prozac.
• 11/13/09: Anton, Deshmukh, and Snider labs receive ARRA Stimulus Awards
• 11/10/09: Snider lab pinpoints kinase important in the regulation of neurogenesis
  Dr. William Snider and his lab have found that the critical balance between proliferation and differentiation rests in large part on activity of a single kinase, called GSK-3, which controls the signals that determine how many neurons actually end up composing in the brain.
• 11/03/09: 225 Neuroscientists attended the 10th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium
  Drs. Ginty, Rakic, Parada and Kanwisher spoke in front of a crowd of 225 Neuroscientists from all around the Triangle area at the 10th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium on Thursday, October 29th.
• 9/25/09: Zylka lab receives Transformative R01
• 9/07/09: Polleux lab identifies critical gene for brain development and mental retardation
  

  In the cover article published in the September 4th issue of Cell, Franck Polleux's lab discovered that establishing the neural wiring necessary to function normally depends on the ability of neurons to make finger-like projections of their membrane called filopodia.