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Jason Cook successfully delivered his PhD defense on November 22, 2013 at 12:00pm in the Bioinformatics Auditorium. His talk was titled “Ethanol Alters the GABAergic Neuroactive Steroid Allopregnanolone at Local Brain Sites: Significance of Local Allopregnanolone Increases in the Ventral Tegmental Area” Advisor: Dr. A. Leslie Morrow

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

Anel Jaramillo was awarded the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, Inc (AAHHE) graduate student fellows program (GRFP), which includes all travel expenses to their annual conference. Congrats Anel!

Smith CT, Swift-Scanlan T, Boettiger CA (2013). Genetic polymorphisms regulating dopamine signaling in the frontal cortex interact to affect target detection under high working memory load. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience