Professor Tim Holy and colleagues produced Julia 1.9, which eliminates slow startup times and lowers the barriers to even wider adoption of this popular tool.
The two rare genetic diseases, which have striking phenotypic similarities, lead to similar downstream consequences on gene activity in neurons of mouse models.
As part of a collaborative team, Prufrock will produce models of how developing teeth influence facial bone growth in multiple primate species.
The Bagnall Lab is creating a map of connections along the length of neurons in the spinal cord to understand their function in movement.
Taghert’s group aims to determine how circadian pacemaker cells in the brain control behavior and physiology that peak at different times.
Ibrahim Saliu, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neuroscience, has received a $200,000 grant from the Alzheimer’s Association to study the role of astrocytes in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
The project will investigate the contributions of subsets of microglia—the brain’s immune cells—to Alzheimer’s disease.
A study of human brain tissue by Guoyan Zhao and colleagues identifies genetic activity in microglia and astrocytes related neurodegeneration and neuropathology among individuals with Alzheimer or Parkinson disease.
After an injury to dorsal root ganglion neurons adjacent to the spinal cord, resident macrophages work with satellite glial cells to heal damaged axons.
Cellular circuits downstream from circadian pacemaker neurons direct normal daily rhythms of feeding, mating and sleep.