Cortney Winkle and Dan Albaugh

Alice Stamatakis and Joshua Jennings

“The Axon Investigator”

Elyse Dankoski, PhD from Wightman lab publishes first author in Neuropsychopharmacology, “Facilitation of Serotonin Signaling by SSRIs is Attenuated by Social Isolation” Elyse is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chakin lab, University of Washington.

“SOX2 is Essential for the Maturation and Maintenance of Retinal Müller Glia”

His publication is titled, “Activity-dependent Signaling Mechanisms Regulating Adult Hippocampal Neural Stem Cells and their Progeny” Click here for more.

Meghan Morgan-Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. William Snider’s lab has found that the protein glycogen synthase kinase-3, or GSK-3, is crucial for proper brain development early in life. The discovery in the journal eLife, also has implications for the study of neurodevelopmental disorders, which can result from abnormal brain formation during embryonic stages and infancy.

Jason Cook, PhD from Morrow lab publishes first author “Overexpression of the Steroidogenic Enzyme Cytochrome P450 Side Chain Cleavage in the Ventral Tegmental Area Increases 3α,5α-THP and Reduces Long-Term Operant Ethanol Self-Administration” in the Journal of Neuroscience. He is also first author in Neuropsychopharmacology, “Ethanol Alters Local Cellular Levels of (3α,5α)-3-Hydroxypregnan-20-one (3α,5α-THP) Independent of the … Read more

Graduate student Alice Stamatakis uses optogenetics to study the complicated circuitry behind reward, addiction, and aversion. Click here for the feature.

Nick Boyer publishes in Neuroscience, “Three Structurally Similar Odorants Trigger Distinct Signaling Pathways in a Mouse Olfactory Neuron”