Juan Song Discovers How Baby Neurons Stay Alive
December 4, 2013
UNC neuroscientist Juan Song discovers how baby neurons stay alive, a key finding for understanding neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s.
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Jason Cook Successfully Defended PhD on November 22nd
November 13, 2013
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
Four UNC Neuroscience papers in Nature or Science in 2013
November 1, 2013
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 Receives AAHHE Award
October 30, 2013
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!
Chris Smith, PhD Student, Publishes First Author Paper in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
October 30, 2013
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