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The purpose, function, and immense utility of the various scientific cores at Carolina are highlighted.

The Director of the Neuroscience Microscopy Core, Michelle Itano, was profiled by 1MWIS as a notable woman in STEM.

STAR (Scientific Training and Research) students, ranging in age from 4 to 14, visited a variety of labs on campus, including the Neuroscience Microscopy Core.

This edition of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities newsletter discussed the $780,000 grant Michelle Itano, the Director of the Neuroscience Microscopy Core, won from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support imaging scientists.

The Director of the Neuroscience Microscopy Core, Michelle Itano, won a $780,000 grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support imaging scientists.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced the recipients of their grants today, which included our very own Michelle Itano!

Michelle Itano, the Director of the Neuroscience Microscopy Core, was featured in a profile for the Carolina fundraising campaign this year.

In a study published in Translational Psychiatry, research led by Hyejung Won, PhD, and Jason Stein, PhD, assistant professors in the UNC Department of Genetics and members of the UNC Neuroscience Center, found that lowered expression of a gene called DDHD2 may increase a person’s likelihood of autism. Spectrum News, a...

Hallucinogens like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin, and substituted N-benzyl phenylalkylamines are widely used recreationally with psilocybin being considered...Find the full paper here.

Congratulations to the Juan Song lab on their work on "Neuropeptides Modulate Local Astrocytes to Regulate Adult Hippocampal Neural Stem Cells", now online @NeuroCellPress! Read the full paper in Neuron.