Author Archives: Kaylie Orlan

For the first time, Garret Stuber, PhD, imaged activity patterns of individual brain cells in freely moving mice to link specific basic behaviors to particular neurons.

The UNC School of Medicine has awarded the 15th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize to David W. Tank, PhD, for the “discovery of fundamental mechanisms of neural computation.”

Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, and his DREADDs technology was named one of the top 10 mental health stories of note by Tom Insel, MD, director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

In a Developmental Cell paper, Anton lab shows that APC-regulated microtubule severing is necessary for appropriate patterns of neuronal migration and placement in the developing brain.

Ben Philpot, PhD, and Mark Zylka, PhD, discovered a biochemical mechanism that could cause "chemo brain", the neurological side effects of chemotherapy.

The 15th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium was held on October 23, 2014 at the Carolina Club. It featured talks from Drs. Gina Turrigiano, Anatol Kreitzer, and David Van Essen.

Edvard and May-Britt Moser, 2012 Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize recipients were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.

Ben Philpot, PhD, and Mark Zylka, PhD, were featured on UNC-TV with a segment on their autism research.

Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, and Thomas Kash, PhD were awarded a grant to develop the next generation of DREADDs for brain research.

Spencer Smith received National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation grants to develop and use a new kind of two-photon microscope, working toward the goal of President Obama's BRAIN Initiative of mapping every neuron in the human brain.