Author Archives: Nathaniel Bailey

Faculty members Ben Philpot and Mark Zylka received a dual-PI R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to study drugs that regulate expression of Ube3a, a ubiquitin protein ligase that is mutated in Angelman syndrome

Dr. Stuber’s RO1, “Midbrain neural circuit elements that underlie cue-reward associations” was just funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In experiments funded by this grant, we will be combining optogenetics and voltammetric techniques to determine which excitatory and inhibitory projection to the midbrain are responsible for modulating the...

UNC STUDY COULD LEAD TO TREATMENT FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME Contact: Les Lang, 919-9232563; (mobile) 919-923-2563; llang@med.unc.edu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers used a type of drug to awaken a dormant gene in mouse neurons and in living mice, thereby identifying a potential treatment strategy for doing the...

Newbern, a postdoc in William Snider’s lab at the UNC Neuroscience Center, has been awarded a Pathway to Independence-Career Development Award (K99/R00) by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the NIH. The award is part of an NIH-wide effort to support promising young scientists in transitioning to...

Dr. Kash is one of the 94 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Click here to go to the White...

The findings suggest that therapeutics targeting the path between two critical brain regions, the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens, represent potential treatments for addiction and other neuropsychiatric diseases.

Anton, a member of the Neuroscience Center at UNC and the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, was awarded the grant for his research in the mapping of neuronal placement in the developing cerebral cortex.

  Dean Roper presenting the award to Dr. Dulac Dr. Catherine Dulac from Harvard University accepted her portion of the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize Thursday, April 21st from Dean Roper in G202 MBRB. The Perl Prize is being awarded to Drs. Catherine Dulac from Harvard, and Cori Bargmann from Rockefeller for...

Dr. Flavio Frohlich Dr. Flavio Frohlich will join the UNC Neuroscience Center’s Faculty. Flavio received a degree in electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and his PhD in computational neuroscience with Terrence Sejnowski at UC San Diego. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University...

Dr. Spencer Smith Dr. Spencer Smith will join the UNC Neuroscience Center’s Faculty. Spencer received his B.S. from the University of Iowa in Physics and Mathematics and his PhD at UCLA in Neuroscience and Neuroengineering. He did a postdoctoral fellowship with Josh Trachtenberg at UCLA and a second postdoc at...