Cortney Winkle publishes first auther paper in JCB. Her work is featured on the inside cover.

Jane Hartung from Nackley lab publishes first-author in Pain.

Congratulations to Josh Jennings from Stuber lab. He received an NRSA from NIMH, titled “Lateral Hypothalamic Circuit Dynamics Underlying Binge Eating.”

Amanda Lyall publishes first author in Cerebral Cortex

Sinnett SE, Sexton JZ, Brenman JE. “A high throughput assay for discovery of small molecules that bind AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK).” Current Chemical Genomics and Translational Medicine, 2013; 7: 30-38.

Enrollment for Causal Neuroscience: From Synaptic Plasticity to Adaptive Behavior, June 7 – 14, 2014. Click here for more information.

Alice Stamatakis from Stuber lab publishes paper in Neuron demonstrating that lateral habenula projecting VTA neurons promote reward by their release of GABA, not dopamine. This paper was featured on the cover of the November 20th issue of Neuron.

UNC researchers, including Neurobiology Curriculum students, have published FOUR papers in Nature or Science in 2013. That’s more than Duke, Princeton, Yale, UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, UCSD,UCSF, U Michigan, or Northwestern. And SEVEN papers in Nature or Science since 2010! http://go.unc.edu/n5ECa