December 2, 2011
Postdoctoral fellow Jordan Cocchiaro receives Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
The NRSA will provide 2 years of support for Jordan's project in the Rawls lab.
December 2, 2011
The NRSA will provide 2 years of support for Jordan's project in the Rawls lab.
November 28, 2011
Nov. 28, 2011 - Tzima lab publication in the journal "Blood" identifies the protein Shc as central player in the formation of new blood vessels
November 16, 2011
November 2011 - A study published in the EMBO Journal indicates that scarring after injury prevents further damage and weakening of the heart muscle.
October 31, 2011
October 2011 - Congratulations to physiology graduate students Sarah Bortvedt and Maggie McCormick, 2012 recipients of UNC's Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) Impact Award
October 31, 2011
October 2011 - Bhat Lab Receives Grant Support from the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society for their research project entitled “Disorganization and Re-organization of Axonal Domains in Myelinated Axons.”
September 25, 2011
September 2011 - Maggie McCormick funded by a pilot grant from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute
September 16, 2011
December 2011 - Postdoctoral fellow Matt Judson and graduate student Mike Wallace are funded.
July 20, 2011
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.
July 11, 2011
Rawls lab postdoctoral fellow James Minchin is awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association Mid-Atlantic Affiliate entitled "In vivo cell lineage analysis and morphogenesis of white adipose tissue in zebrafish." John Rawls is awarded a 1-year R56 grant from NIH entitled "Mechanisms of adipose depot morphogenesis in zebrafish."
July 5, 2011
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.