The Song lab used optogenetic techniques to stimulate specific brain cells to increase production of neural stem cells and neurons relevant to memory and emotion processing in animal models, as published in Nature Neuroscience May 6.
Dr. Saran successfully defended her PhD, “Bile Acid Transporters and Hepatotoxicity: Novel Mechanisms and in Vitro Models,” on April 19.
Dr. León successfully defended his PhD, “Enhancing the function and delivery of chimeric antigen receptor T-cells: Implications for treatment of solid tumors,” on April 4.
“Story of an Experiment – Cell Metabolic Analysis” – a video presentation with Eden Yitbarek Zewdie of the Earp Lab, filmed by Rika Khadria.
Dr. Hewitt successfully defended her PhD, “Modulation of Active State Dynamics by Catalytic Glutamine Mutations in Large G proteins,” on March 31.
Dr. Taylor Enrico successfully defended her PhD, “Control of Proliferation by the Ubiquitin Proteasome System,” on March 4.
Congratulations to Taylor Enrico on publishing a first author paper in eLIfe describing non-canonical control mechanism for the Retinoblastoma tumor suppressor family!
Congratulations to Dr. Lovett who defended her PhD “Analysis Of The Cervicovaginal Microbiome In Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Infections And Its Contribution To Disease Presentation.”
Can Cao, PhD, postdoc in the Roth lab, is first author on a Nature paper “Structure, function and pharmacology of human itch GPCRs” published Nov. 17. Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, is senior author.
Dr. Knight defended his PhD, “Structural mechanisms of G protein activation and suppression.”
