Neurosciences

Congratulations to Dr. Ashley Nemes-Baran for receiving the J. Bruce Jackson MD Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring.

Interim President Scott Cowen made the announcement in a Zoom bombing event in Ashley’s NEUR202 lecture. Interim President Cowen cited many letters of support from the students and congratulated Dr. Nemes. He said it is rare for a year-one professor to win this prestigious award.

We are so proud of you, Dr. Nemes!

Read the full article featured in The Daily

Philippidou Lab

Congratulations to Ritesh KC in Pola Philippidou’s lab for his F31 predoctoral fellowship award. 

Philippidou Lab 

Congratulations to Alicia Vagnozzi in Pola Philippidou’s lab for her F30 predoctoral fellowship award. 

Ashley Nemes-Baran has been appointed Assistant Professor of Neurosciences and will teach in the Neurosciences undergraduate major curriculum.

The undergraduate major in Neuroscience has launched!

Neddylation is critical to cortical development by regulating Wnt/b-catenin signaling.  

L. Zhang, H. Jing, H. Li, W. Chen, B. Luo, H-S. Zhang, Z-Q. Dong, L. Li, H-B. Su, W-C. Xiong and L. Mei. 

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 117:26448-26459, 2020 Oct

Topographic heterogeneity of intrinsic excitability in mouse hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons.

Sun Q, Jiang YQ, Lu MC.

J Neurophysiol. 2020 Oct 1;124(4):1270-1284. doi: 10.1152/jn.00147.2020. Epub 2020 Sep 16.

A role of lamin A/C in preventing neuromuscular junction decline in mice.

N. Gao, K. Zhao, Y. Cao, X. Ren, H. Jing, G. Xing, W.-C. Xiong, and Lin Mei.  

J. Neurosci. 40:7203-7215, 2020 Sept (Cover) 

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A role of low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 4 (LRP4) in astrocytic Aβ clearance.

H. Zhang, W. Chen, Z. Tan, L. Zhang, Z. Dong, W. Cui, K. Zhao, H. Wang, H. Jing, R. Cao, C. Kim, J.G. Safar, W.-C. Xiong and L. Mei.  

J. Neurosci., 40:5347:5361, 2020 Jul
 

Niemi JP, Lindborg JA, Zigmond RE.

Methods Mol Biol. 2020 Jun;2143:207-222. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0585-1_16.