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Flavio Frohlich joins UNC Neuroscience Center Faculty

March 25, 2011

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 with Dr. David McCormick studying … Read more

Spencer Smith will join the UNC Neuroscience Center Faculty

March 16, 2011

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 the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical … Read more

UNC Researchers Awarded Prestigious Grant for Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

February 18, 2011

Drs. Zylka, Roth, and Philpot UNC Researchers Awarded Prestigious Grant for Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders Drs. Ben Philpot, Mark Zylka, and Bryan Roth were awarded a prestigious grant from the Simons Foundation to identify drug-like compounds for the treatment of autism spectrum disorders. This includes work with an animal model of Angelman syndrome, a … Read more

1/28/11: Snider Lab publishes in Neuron

January 28, 2011

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 myelin, which allows messages to be sent from the brain to the peripheral limbs and back again.

1/27/11: Bhat Lab publishes article in Neuron

January 27, 2011

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.

1/20/11: Deshmukh Lab publishes article in Genes & Development

January 20, 2011

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 cell death, or apoptosis, which … Read more

Two New Imaging Systems in the Confocal and Multiphoton Imaging Facility

January 4, 2011

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 popular nuclei label dyes, the … Read more

225 Scientists Attend 11th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium

October 18, 2010

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 and the Neurology of Autism”, … Read more

8/2/10: Ben Philpot PhD is the 2010 Freedman Award Honorable Mention

August 4, 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 details about this honor, you … Read more