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Angelman Syndrome is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is caused by loss of the maternal copy of the Ube3a gene. Using the gene editing technology CRISPR/Cas9, a team of scientists in the Zylka lab was able to correct the underlying molecular deficiency in the Angelman mouse model. The Zylka Lab...

Song lab’s article was selected as one of the 10 best articles of 2017 in Cell Stem Cell!

María Luisa, a graduate student in the the McElligott lab at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, received an NRSA from the NIAAA entitled “Examining Alcohol Induced Plasticity in Amygdala Hind Brain Circuits.” She will work to determine whether a history of alcohol consumption in mice can alter the behavioral...

Mark J. Zylka, PhD, Professor/Director, W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, and American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, was one of the awardees of the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) Pilot Projects Program. His project, “Does prenatal pesticide exposure exacerbate phenotypes in a...

Hiroyuki Kato, PhD, has been selected as a Pew Scholar in Biological Sciences, which provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The Kato Lab will use this award to study the circuit mechanisms underlying the extraction of complex sounds in...

Graham Diering, PhD, was interviewed on Radio in Vivo, a local Triangle weekly science interview radio program, about the science of sleep.

The Dokholyan and Deshmukh labs published a report in PNAS where they examined the neurotoxicity of various SOD1 protein aggregates in a model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The large SOD1 aggregates, which are a hallmark of ALS, are generally considered to contribute to motor neuron death in ALS. However,...

Matsushima Lab Research Scientist, Nagendran Muthusamy, is the 2018 Robert and Margaret Grossfeld Award Recipient. This award recognizes his outstanding 2017 publication in Nature Neuroscience.

UNC investigator, Bryan Roth, will give a Presidential Special Lecture entitled "From Salvia Divinorum to LSD—Toward a Molecular Understanding of Psychoactive Drug Actions" at the 2018 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Memories can last a lifetime, but the neuronal synapses that store memories are made of macrolmolecules such as proteins that undergo synthesis and degradation on the scale of hour to days. The Huganir Lab, in which Dieiring was recently a postdoctoral scholar, hypothesized that a population of extremely long-lived proteins...