Author Archives: Nathaniel Bailey

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have pinpointed a crucial function for a key player in the development of the nervous system. They found that this player — a protein called Erk – is necessary for nerve fibers to be wrapped with an insulating substance called...

New research from the Bhat lab describes a key molecular mechanism in nerve fibers that ensures the rapid conductance of nervous system impulses. The findings appear online Jan. 27, 2011 in the journal Neuron.

Adam Kole and Dr. Deshmukh The Deshmukh lab has published new findings explaining how neurons are able avoid cell death as they mature. The findings are published in the January 15th issue of Genes & Development. Soon after the period of development, neurons are known to become very resistant to...

The UNC Neuroscience Center would like to announce our two new imaging systems in the Confocal and Multiphoton Imaging Facility. The new systems are the Zeiss LSM 710 Confocal and Zeiss LSM 710 Multiphoton. The Zeiss LSM 710 Confocal is equipped with the 405 laser, which enables DAPI or other...

Introduction to the Symposium On October 14th, there were 225 scientists from the triangle area attended the Symposium held at the Carolina Club. Drs. Lesilie Vosshall, Matthew Wilson, Dan Geschwind, and Steven Paul delivered lecutres on “The Neurobiology of Innate Behavior: Sex, Smell, and Food”, “Hippocampal Memory Reactivation”, “Genetics, Genomics...

  Dr. Garret Stuber, Ph.D has joined the Neuroscience Center and the Department of Psychiatry. He had done his Postdoctoral training, Ernest Gallo Clinic & Research Center at the University of California San Francisco from 2005 – 2010.

Benjamin D. Philpot, PhD, NARSAD 2006 Young Investigator of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, discovered that the molecular composition of receptors shapes memory formation and the wiring between brain cells. These studies will help guide therapeutic treatments of schizophrenia and other affective disorders. For full...

The Zylka Lab has several new findings that have implications for the treatment of chronic pain. The full paper was published in the Journal of Neuroscience in the August 4th edition. Some of the highlights from the paper will include: PIP2 levels in pain-sensing neurons are regulated by PAP, an...

  We were delighted to announce the 10th Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize was awarded to Thomas Jessell, PhD from Columbia University Medical Center was on Tuesday May 4th. Dr. Jessell is the Claire Tow Professor in the departments of neuroscience, biochemistry and molecular biophysics, and the Kavli Institute for Brain Science...