{"id":3120,"date":"2018-06-20T18:50:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T17:29:14","slug":"mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zylka, PhD, Receives Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Pilot Project Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><!-- description --><\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">Mark J. Zylka, PhD, Professor\/Director, W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, and American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, was one of the awardees of the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) Pilot Projects Program. His project, \u201cDoes prenatal pesticide exposure exacerbate phenotypes in a mouse model of autism?\u201d, submitted for the 2018-2019 CEHS Standard Pilot Projects Program, was approved for funding on April 1, 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-section\">\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-600x400.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Mark Zylka, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>His research for this pilot award explores the role of both genetic and environmental components of a single autism-related pathway in an effort to show more pronounced morphological and behavioral phenotypes than testing either genetic or environmental risk factors alone. This pilot grant will support development of assays to quantify pyrethroids in tissues and urine of mice and pilot exposure studies with a high confidence autism model mouse line.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Zylka Lab,<a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/zylkalab.org\" target=\"_self\"> click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --> <\/p>\n<p class='lead'>Mark J. Zylka, PhD, Professor\/Director, W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, and American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, was one of the awardees of the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) Pilot Projects Program. His project, \u201cDoes prenatal pesticide exposure exacerbate phenotypes in a mouse model of autism?\u201d, submitted for the 2018-2019 CEHS Standard Pilot Projects Program, was approved for funding on April 1, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70069,"featured_media":3121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mark Zylka, PhD, Receives Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Pilot Project Award | UNC Neuroscience Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mark Zylka, PhD, Receives Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Pilot Project Award | UNC Neuroscience Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mark J. Zylka, PhD, Professor\/Director, W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, and American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, was one of the awardees of the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) Pilot Projects Program. His project, \u201cDoes prenatal pesticide exposure exacerbate phenotypes in a mouse model of autism?\u201d, submitted for the 2018-2019 CEHS Standard Pilot Projects Program, was approved for funding on April 1, 2018.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UNC Neuroscience Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-20T22:50:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-07-05T17:29:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-scaled.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@uncneuro\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@uncneuro\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Mark Zylka, PhD, Receives Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Pilot Project Award\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-06-20T22:50:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-07-05T17:29:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/\"},\"wordCount\":165,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-scaled.jpeg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/\",\"name\":\"Mark Zylka, PhD, Receives Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Pilot Project Award | UNC Neuroscience Center\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-scaled.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-06-20T22:50:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-07-05T17:29:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-scaled.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-scaled.jpeg\",\"width\":1707,\"height\":2560,\"caption\":\"Mark Zylka, PhD\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mark Zylka, PhD, Receives Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Pilot Project Award\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/\",\"name\":\"UNC Neuroscience Center\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/author\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mark Zylka, PhD, Receives Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Pilot Project Award | UNC Neuroscience Center","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mark Zylka, PhD, Receives Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Pilot Project Award | UNC Neuroscience Center","og_description":"Mark J. Zylka, PhD, Professor\/Director, W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, and American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, was one of the awardees of the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS) Pilot Projects Program. His project, \u201cDoes prenatal pesticide exposure exacerbate phenotypes in a mouse model of autism?\u201d, submitted for the 2018-2019 CEHS Standard Pilot Projects Program, was approved for funding on April 1, 2018.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/","og_site_name":"UNC Neuroscience Center","article_published_time":"2018-06-20T22:50:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-07-05T17:29:14+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1707,"height":2560,"url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-scaled.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@uncneuro","twitter_site":"@uncneuro","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Mark Zylka, PhD, Receives Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Pilot Project Award","datePublished":"2018-06-20T22:50:29+00:00","dateModified":"2018-07-05T17:29:14+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/"},"wordCount":165,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-scaled.jpeg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/","name":"Mark Zylka, PhD, Receives Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Pilot Project Award | UNC Neuroscience Center","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-scaled.jpeg","datePublished":"2018-06-20T22:50:29+00:00","dateModified":"2018-07-05T17:29:14+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-scaled.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-scaled.jpeg","width":1707,"height":2560,"caption":"Mark Zylka, PhD"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mark Zylka, PhD, Receives Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Pilot Project Award"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/","name":"UNC Neuroscience Center","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/author\/"}]}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-scaled.jpeg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-200x300.jpeg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-768x1152.jpeg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-683x1024.jpeg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/782\/2018\/07\/mark-zylka-phd-receives-center-for-environmental-health-and-susceptibility-pilot-project-award-image2-150x150.jpeg","featured_image_alt":"Mark Zylka, PhD","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}