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Introduction to the Symposium On October 14th, there were 225 scientists from the triangle area attended the Symposium held at the Carolina Club. Drs. Lesilie Vosshall, Matthew Wilson, Dan Geschwind, and Steven Paul delivered lecutres on “The Neurobiology of Innate Behavior: Sex, Smell, and Food”, “Hippocampal Memory Reactivation”, “Genetics, Genomics...

  Dr. Garret Stuber, Ph.D has joined the Neuroscience Center and the Department of Psychiatry. He had done his Postdoctoral training, Ernest Gallo Clinic & Research Center at the University of California San Francisco from 2005 – 2010.

Benjamin D. Philpot, PhD, NARSAD 2006 Young Investigator of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, discovered that the molecular composition of receptors shapes memory formation and the wiring between brain cells. These studies will help guide therapeutic treatments of schizophrenia and other affective disorders. For full...

The Zylka Lab has several new findings that have implications for the treatment of chronic pain. The full paper was published in the Journal of Neuroscience in the August 4th edition. Some of the highlights from the paper will include: PIP2 levels in pain-sensing neurons are regulated by PAP, an...

  We were delighted to announce the 10th Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize was awarded to Thomas Jessell, PhD from Columbia University Medical Center was on Tuesday May 4th. Dr. Jessell is the Claire Tow Professor in the departments of neuroscience, biochemistry and molecular biophysics, and the Kavli Institute for Brain Science...

 

Larysa Pevny and her lab demonstrate that a specific subpopulation of mouse dermal papilla fibroblasts (found in the hair follicle), marked by Sox2 expression, displays properties of adult stem cells, including serial hair follicle initiation, dermal cell differentiation, and skin-derived precursor production. Full paper

Bryan Roth and members of his lab have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs. Bryan Roth, M.D., Ph.D. is a professor of pharmacology and director of the National Institute of Mental Health Psychoactive Drug Screening Program at UNC, and also a member...

Three labs from the UNC Neuroscience Center received ARRA Stimulus Awards. Eva Anton’s lab received a Challenge Grant titled: Defining of Neurodevelopmental Pathways Regulated by Neureguliln-DISC1 Interactions. Mohanish Deshmukh’s lab received an ARRA Competitive Revision to R01 titled: Mechanisms of Increasing Apoptosis Regulation in Developing and Mature Neurons. William Snider’s...

In populating the growing brain, neural stem cells must strike a delicate balance between two key processes – proliferation, in which the cells multiply to provide plenty of starting materials – and differentiation, in which those materials evolve into functioning neurons. If the stem cells proliferate too much, they could...