November 26, 2024
CBP students and faculty participate in the first of several planned events that span from 2024 to 2025 with Wake Tech Community College to foster scientific collaboration and community. Students and faculty from the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology (CBP) kicked off an exciting new partnership with Wake Tech Community College on November 15, …
November 25, 2024
A tour of Carl W. Gottschalk’s collection of historical books reveals the breadth of renal physiology’s history and Gottschalk’s place as a pioneer in the field. As a child, Carl W. Gottschalk loved collecting. He collected stamps, coins, and most notably butterflies. At just 15 years old, he discovered a rare butterfly species that now …
November 12, 2024
An image from Berfin Azizoglu’s team showing the vascular organization underlying blood drainage from the liver wins the School of Medicine’s 2024 Art in Science Competition! A snapshot of this image’s research significance What does this image show? This image shows the three-dimensional vascular organization of the adult mouse liver. The liver has two lobes, each …
October 31, 2024
Neurons are among the few cells that can halt cell death and recover from apoptosis. Now scientists know why. “Neurons can reverse their decision to die from a point that’s considered impossible in most other cells,” said Mohanish Deshmukh, a neuroscientist in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology. In a recent study published in …
October 24, 2024
Sleep disturbances during early development alter key synaptic proteins involved in autism spectrum disorder. Anyone who has ever put a toddler to bed knows it’s a struggle. While sleep might be the bane of a toddler’s existence it is also an essential component for their brain development. Toddlers need an average of 11-14 hours of …
October 22, 2024
A stunning image from Lori O’Brien‘s team showing a rare congenital defect that causes a kidney to have two ureters wins the School of Medicine’s 2024 Art in Science Competition! A snapshot of this image’s research significance What does this image show? This image shows a postnatal mouse kidney immunostained for the renal arterial tree …
July 24, 2024
Led by Greg Scherrer, PharmD, PhD, and Chong Chen, MD, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, research published in Nature reveals a new pain control pathway from the cortex to the cerebellum crucial to placebo analgesia – when the expectation of pain relief leads to pain alleviation without a therapeutic intervention, such as with …
April 1, 2024
Dr. Shahzad Khan, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, has been selected for the 2024 Mentoring Institute for Neuroscience Diversity Scholars (MINDS) program, an NINDS-supported program that focuses attention on diversity individuals who are early in their careers as faculty members in the neurosciences. Over the next year, Shahzad will have the opportunities …
March 18, 2024
Jessica Cote received a 3-year F32 postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. She will use the award to study the impact of specific alternative splicing events on skeletal muscle development.
March 18, 2024
The Triangle Brain Bee serves high school students of North Carolina and aims to promote awareness about collegiate and career pathways in neuroscience as well as incite excitement surrounding neuroscience and STEM fields. Post-docs and graduate students offer three community engagement opportunities for high school students: (i) virtual, weekly neuroscience tutoring sessions, (ii) an interactive neuroanatomy …
