Category: News

  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...

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...

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.