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- New MD/PhD student Tricia Lenhart joins the Caron lab
- Rawls lab publication, "Ontogeny and nutritional control of adipogenesis in zebrafish (Danio rerio)" is cover article in the Journal of Lipid Research
- Tibetan monks and nuns in India learn neuroscience by using Ann Stuart's Neurons in Action software and tutorials.
- The Zylka lab, in collaboration with labs at Caltech and the University of Pittsburgh, found that Mrgprd enhances excitability in nociceptive (pain-sensing) neurons. Their paper was published in the Journal of Neuroscience and was highlighted with a cover caption.
- Samantha Strickland (Caron lab) and Maggie McCormick (Tzima lab) each receive an Integrative Vascular Biology training grant
- Please welcome the department's newest graduate students: Sarah Bortvedt, Caitlin Collins, Gieira Jones, Lisa McCoig, John Sheridan and Samantha Strickland
- Philpot lab reverses plasticity defects in a mouse model of the mental retardation Angelman syndrome
Manuscript published in Nature Neuroscience - New Funding!
Sarah Street (a postdoc in the Zylka lab) and Hsien-Sung Huang (a postdoc in the Philpot lab) each received an NC TraC$10K Pilot Program award.
Sanford L. Steelman, Sr., bequests $100,000 to the department.
Hsien-Sung Huang, PhD, (Philpot lab) is awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator's Award - Bhat lab publishes in Results & Problems in Cell Differentiation
The Thomas H. Maren Foundation's generous gifts to the Department
- Otey lab's undergrad trainee, Varun Puvanesarajah, awarded a Goldwater Scholarship