The project aims to answer a fundamental question in neuroscience: how do olfactory cues direct behavior?
Timothy Holy awarded R01 grant to investigate mouse pheromones
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ICTS pilot funding drives research on neurodegenerative diseases (Links to an external site)
The Zhao Lab is grateful for ICTS, GTAC@MGI, Knight ADRC, and the Movement Disorders Center for their generous support.
Circadian pacemaker neurons exhibit two linked calcium cycles
The slow and fast rhythms reflect distinct cellular processes yet nevertheless have a co-phasic relationship.
Geoffrey Goodhill receives grant to monitor every neuron in the brain during sleep and wake
In collaboration with labs from Caltech and the University of Southern California, his team will track each cell in the zebrafish brain to document the biological basis of sleep.
Study finds key similarities between rodent and human satellite glial cells
SGCs have been the subject of intense scrutiny for their involvement in inflammation, pain and nerve injury. The results confirm that rodents are a reliable model for translational research on these cells.
Protein linked to intellectual disability has complex role (Links to an external site)
Finding therapies for fragile X may depend on understanding the many ways the protein’s loss affects the brain.
Guoyan Zhao receives grant for single-cell proteomics in the human brain
Zhao, an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience, will apply imaging mass cytometry technology to analyze tissue samples from Alzheimer’s patients.
Serendipity unites physicians, researchers, families to fight rare genetic disease in kids (Links to an external site)
Groundbreaking cancer research helps shed light on recently identified disorder, Tatton Brown Rahman Syndrome.
New primer on logistic models for research in decision neuroscience
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD, has developed a manual of tools for analysis of economic choices.
Yi lab develops assay to solve mystery genetic variants
Assistant Professor Jason Yi’s group applied the technique to variants of unknown significance in UBE3A, the gene that underlies Angelman syndrome.