Author Archives: Nathaniel Bailey

 

Larysa Pevny and her lab demonstrate that a specific subpopulation of mouse dermal papilla fibroblasts (found in the hair follicle), marked by Sox2 expression, displays properties of adult stem cells, including serial hair follicle initiation, dermal cell differentiation, and skin-derived precursor production. Full paper

Bryan Roth and members of his lab have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs. Bryan Roth, M.D., Ph.D. is a professor of pharmacology and director of the National Institute of Mental Health Psychoactive Drug Screening Program at UNC, and also a member...

Three labs from the UNC Neuroscience Center received ARRA Stimulus Awards. Eva Anton’s lab received a Challenge Grant titled: Defining of Neurodevelopmental Pathways Regulated by Neureguliln-DISC1 Interactions. Mohanish Deshmukh’s lab received an ARRA Competitive Revision to R01 titled: Mechanisms of Increasing Apoptosis Regulation in Developing and Mature Neurons. William Snider’s...

In populating the growing brain, neural stem cells must strike a delicate balance between two key processes – proliferation, in which the cells multiply to provide plenty of starting materials – and differentiation, in which those materials evolve into functioning neurons. If the stem cells proliferate too much, they could...

225 Neuroscientists attended the 10th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium held at the Carolina Club on Thursday, Ocotber 29th. Drs. Ginty, Rakic, Parada and Kanwisher were this year’s invited speakers. Neuroscientists from all over the Triangle area attended the event.

Mark Zylka, assistant professor of cell and molecular physiology in the School of Medicine and a member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, has received a prestigious Transformative R01 from the NIH. The T-RO1, or “Transformative” RO1 program, new this year, is named for the institutes’ standard RO1 grants, but without...

n the cover article published in the September 4th issue of Cell, Franck Polleux’s lab discovered that establishing the neural wiring necessary to function normally depends on the ability of neurons to make finger-like projections of their membrane called filopodia. In laying down the neural circuitry of the developing brain,...

Philpot lab postdoctoral fellow Adam Roberts’ first author publication featured in faculty of 1000. In an article published in the prestigious journal Neuron, Adam Roberts, other members of the Philpot lab, and their colleagues demonstrated that NR3A is an inhibitory regulator of synapse maturation and plasticity during early periods of...

  The Neurobiology Curriculum at UNC Chapel Hill is delighted to host Ben Barres, MD, PhD at this year’s Pierre Morrell Research Day on August 28th. Dr. Barres is Professor and Chair of the Neurobiology department at Stanford University. His talk will be “ How Do Astrocytes Control CNS Synapse...