Philpot news

Philpot and Snider awarded $2 million to study roots of cognitive disabilities

April 2012 -Philpot and Snider will study the cognitive disabilities in patients with RAS/MARK syndromes.

Potential treatment strategy for Angelman syndrome identified by Philpot, Zylka and Roth

December 2011 - Collaborators Ben Philpot, Mark Zylka and Bryan Roth identify compounds that cause the dormant Ube3a gene to be expressed.

Philpot lab news is top news at Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative

December 2011 - Recent work on Ube3a is most viewed on Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative website.

Philpot and Zylka receive R01 grant funding from the National Institute of Mental Health

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grants Philpot and Zylka an R01 to study drugs that regulate expression of the protein Ube3a.

Philpot lab members receive National Research Service Award funding

December 2011 - Postdoctoral fellow Matt Judson and graduate student Mike Wallace are funded.

Philpot lab members write commentary for Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) explaining connections between autism, Angelman syndrome and the UBE3A gene

July 2011 - Ben Philpot and postdoctoral fellows Angela Mabb and Matthew Judson write commentary for the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) on the role of UBE3A and its connections to autism and Angelman syndrome.

Joint Zylka and Philpot lab paper is cover article in latest Trends in Neurosciences

The labs of Drs. Ben Philpot and Mark Zylka have collaborated on the paper “Angelman syndrome: insights into genomic imprinting and neurodevelopmental phenotypes,” which was selected as the cover article for the June 2011 issue of Trends in Neurosciences.

Larsen and Bortvedt awarded 2011-2012 Fellner Fellowship

The Susan Fellner Fellowship is a one-year, merit-based award available to Physiology curriculum students who have passed the thesis proposal at the time of application.

McCoy awarded postdoctoral fellowship from Autism Science Foundation

Grants from ASF fund grants student/mentor teams conducting research in autism interventions, early diagnosis, biomarkers, and animal models.

Philpot lab publication sheds light on function of NMDA receptors

 

UNC Researchers Awarded Prestigious Grant for Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

UNC Researchers Philpot, Zylka and Roth are awarded a prestigious grant from the Simons Foundation for research in autism spectrum disorders

Philpot promoted to Associate Professor

 

Ben Philpot receives funds from the Angelman Syndrome Foundation, NIH

 

Roberts first-author paper in Neuron featured in Faculty of 1000

Philpot lab postdoctoral fellow Adam Roberts' first author publication featured in faculty of 1000

Philpot lab reverses plasticity defects in a mouse model of the mental retardation Angelman syndrome