5/4/2007: Brenman lab article published in Journal of Cell Biology
May 08, 2007
In the May issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, Dr. Brenman’s laboratory published an article identifying the first known mutations in the Drosophila AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) catalytic subunit. Because there is only a single unique gene for ... More

05/04/2007: Polleux lab article published in Cell
May 07, 2007
Dr. Franck Polleux's laboratory published an article in the May 4th issue of Cell identifying the function of a novel kinase LKB1 in the control of axon formation in developing cortical neurons. The first author of this article is Dr Paul Barnes, a research ... More

05/04/2007: Anton lab article published in Neuron
May 06, 2007
Eva Anton’s laboratory published an article in the May issue of Neuron describing how Nap1, an adaptor protein that modulates cytoskeletal organization, plays an essential role in neuronal differentiation underlying the formation of functional connectivity ... More

5/4/2007: Polleux review published in Nature Neuroscience
May 05, 2007
Franck Polleux and Anirvan Ghosh ((UCSD) have published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience (10:19, 2007) a review synthesizing our understanding of the transcriptional mechanisms controlling axon guidance and synaptogenesis during mammalian brain development.

5/4/2007: Anton review published in Nature Neuroscience
May 04, 2007
Troy Ghashghaei and Eva Anton have published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience (8:141, 2007) a review of neuronal migration in the postnatal brain. This review analyzes the patterns, mechanisms and functional significance of neuronal migration in the postnatal ... More

4/12/2007:2006 Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize
April 12, 2007
The 2006 Perl Prize has been awarded to Dr. Solomon Snyder, Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The date of the presentation has been scheduled for May 16th, 2007. Dr. Etta Pisano will be presenting ... More

3/22/2007: Congrats to Mark Zylka
March 22, 2007
Congratulations to Mark Zylka, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, who has been named as a 2007 Searle Scholar in support of his research on neural circuits and pain. The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected ... More

3/6/2007: Maixner article featured in Science
March 06, 2007
Dr. William Maixner in the Center for Neurosensory Disorders has had an article published in the December 22, 2006 edition of the journal Science. The article, primarily authored by Dr. Andrea Nackley and Dr. Inna Tchivileva is titled "Human catechol-O-methyltransferase ... More

2/15/2007: Philpot article on cover of Neuron
February 15, 2007
Benjamin Philpot, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology has an article featured on this month's cover of Neuron(Feb. 15, 2007). Please click on the link below to view the article text. Congrats, Dr. Philpot!

1/31/2007: Maness review published
January 31, 2007
Patricia Maness in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Melitta Schachner (University of Hamburg) have published in Nature Neuroscience (10:19, 2007) a review of neural cell recognition molecules and their downstream signal transduction events ... More