5/27/08: Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize

We are delighted to announce the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize Award presentation and lecture will be held on Tuesday, May 27th at 3pm. The event will take place on the ground floor of MBRB in room 202. This years' prize will be awarded to Huda Y. Zogh... More

4/15/08: Deshmukh lab article published and featured in PNAS

Mohanish Deshmukh's laboratory published an article in the Proceedings of National Academy of Science in which they describe a mechanism by which cell death could be selectively induced in brain tumor cells but not neurons. They show that direct act... More

12/20: Anton lab article published in Genes and Development

Eva Anton's laboratory published an article in the December issue of Genes and Development describing how in vivo induction of the tyrosine kinase receptor, ErbB2, in mature astrocytes enables a subset of them to regain radial glial identity in the m... More

11/30/07: Deshmukh lab article published and featured in J. Cell Biology

Dr. Mohanish Deshmukh's laboratory published an article in the Journal of Cell Biology in which they describe a novel mechanism by which the apoptotic pathway becomes restricted during neuronal maturation.
Specifically, they show that the apoptoti... More

10/29/07: Zylka and Philpot each received NIH R01 Grants

Congratulations to Drs. Mark Zylka and Ben Philpot for each receiving NIH R01 grants. ...Mark Zylka’s grant is entitled, “Biochemical modulation of nociceptive circuits” and is funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (N... More

10/07/07: 2007 Helen Lyng White Fellowship

Congratulations to Raluca Dumitru for winning the 2007 Helen Lyng White Postdoctoral Fellowship for Neuroscience Research....Dr. Dumitru is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Deshmukh Lab. ...Thanks to Aldo Rustioni, Eva Anton, and Pat... More

10/04/07: 8th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium

The 8th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium was held on Thursday, October 4th at the Carolina Club. 225 Faculty postdoctoral fellows and students were in attendance from UNC and other schools around the Triangle. The four speakers were Rafael Yuste, MD... More

9/20/2007: Announcing the 8th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium October 4th, 2007

The UNC Neuroscience Center will host their 8th Annual Symposium at the Carolina Club on Thursday, October 4th beginning at 9am. ...
The following are this years speakers and their talks:...9:00-9:55am
Rafael Yuste, MD, PhD
Professor of Biol... More

9/7/2007: Neurobiology Curriculm invites you to the 2007 Pierre Morell Research Day

The students of the Neurobiology Curriculum will be hosting the 2007 Pierre Morell Research Day this Friday, 9/7, at the Medical Biomolecular Research Building. ...Dr. Jon Levine, MD, PhD, a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San ... More

8/15/ 2007: Carelli and Wightman publish in Nature Neuroscience

It has been proposed that the innervation of the nucleus accumbens by midbrain dopamine neurons provides instructive information enabling prediction of whether a given stimuli will result in a rewarding outcome. In the August 2007, Vol 10, No 8 issu... More