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 Center News:

• 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
  
• 9/7/09: 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.
• 8/28/09: Roberts first-author paper in Neuron featured in Faculty of 1000
  Philpot lab postdoctoral fellow Adam Roberts' first author publication was featured in Faculty of 1000.
• 5/26/09: Philpot lab reverses plasticity defects in a mouse model of the mental retardation Angelman syndrome
  In a paper published in this week's issue of Nature Neuroscience researchers in Ben Philpot’s lab have discovered in mice how a single disrupted gene can cause a form of severe mental retardation known as Angelman syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder.