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

July 2009 – The Rawls lab publication, “Ontogeny and nutritional control of adipogenesis in zebrafish (Danio rerio),” has been selected as the cover article in the August issue of the Journal of Lipid Research. [at left: The optical transparency of the zebrafish provides new opportunities to study adipocyte biology. We...

July 2009 - AHA predoctoral fellowship will provide two years of support for Dan's project in the Tzima lab.

July 2009 – Tibetan monks and nuns in Dharamsala, India, recently used Neurons in Action 2, co-authored by Professor Ann Stuart and Duke Professor Emeritus John Moore, to learn neurophysiology in a course taught by Emory professors (the Emory Tibet Science Initiative). One of the professors, Dieter Jaeger, wrote “NIA2...

The Journal of Neuroscience publishes findings by the Zylka lab, in collaboration with labs at Caltech and the University of Pittsburgh, that the G protein-coupled receptor called Mrgprd enhances excitability in nociceptive (pain-sensing) neurons.

June 2009 - Caron lab graduate student, Mahita Kadmiel, has been awarded two years of support from the American Heart Association.

June 2009 - Maggie McCormick and Samantha Strickland are accepted into UNC's Integrative Vascular Biology Training Program.

Philpot lab reverses plasticity defects in a mouse model of the mental retardation Angelman syndrome Philpot 5/10/2009 – 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. In a...

January 2009 – Assistant Professor Kathleen Caron, PhD, has been awarded the American Heart Association’s National Established Investigator Award! This five year award “supports mid-term investigators with unusual promise who have demonstrated a commitment to the cardiovascular or cerebrovascular science area as indicated by prior publication history and accomplishments.” Only...

November 2008 - Goicoechea et al publish paper in Oncogene.