December 8, 2011
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.
December 8, 2011
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grants Philpot and Zylka an R01 to study drugs that regulate expression of the protein Ube3a.
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 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.
May 11, 2011
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.
March 21, 2011
Grants from ASF fund grants student/mentor teams conducting research in autism interventions, early diagnosis, biomarkers, and animal models.
February 25, 2011
Nature Neuroscience, volume 14, number 3 March 2011 March 2011 – Researchers in Dr. Ben Philpot’s lab have discovered a new role for a class of receptors that underlie learning and memory in the brain. In a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, they found that one type of these receptors – the …
February 18, 2011
UNC Researchers Philpot, Zylka and Roth are awarded a prestigious grant from the Simons Foundation for research in autism spectrum disorders
March 29, 2010
February 2010 – Congratulations to Ben Philpot on his promotion to Associate Professor, effective February 1, 2010. Dr. Philpot earned his PhD in Psychology/Psychobiology from the University of Virginia, under the guidance of Dr. Peter Brunjes. Philpot went on to postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Bear at Brown University. Before joining UNC, …
September 15, 2009
September 2009 – Assistant professor Ben Philpot has been awarded a two-year grant from the Angelman Syndrome Foundation for his research proposal titled “Novel therapeutics for Angelman syndrome by manipulating Ube3a expression.” Funds have been allocated for support of these studies in collaboration with Dr. Bryan Roth. Additional funding for new equipment in the …