Neuroscience News SpotlightsWe invite you to view the latest edition of the Central Sulcus, the Emory Neuroscience program newsletter, to catch up on important happenings in our program. We would like to congratulate our recent 2011 & 2012 graduates:ALEXANDER POPLAWSKY - Xiaoping Hu, Advisor: "Direct Detection of Neural Magnetic Fields with Fast-Temporal Resolution Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy" (02/11) MICHAEL JUTRAS - Elizabeth Buffalo, Advisor: "Recognition Memory Signals in the Macaque Hippocampus" (03/11) MEAGAN WARD JENKINS - Stephen Traynelis, Advisor: "Mechanisms of CaMKII Regulation of AMPA Receptor Gating" (04/11) TERRENCE WRIGHT - Ronald Calabrese, Advisor: "Contribution of Motor Neurons to Motor Pattern Generation" (05/11) ANLYS OLIVERA - Andrew Miller, Advisor: "Inhibition of the NF-kB signaling pathway by the curcumin analogs, 3,5-Bis(2-pyridinylmethylidene)-4-piperidone (EF31) and 3,5-Bis(2-pyridinylmethylidene)-1-methyl-4-piperidone (UBS109): in-vitro and in-vivo studies" (07/11) SARAH CORK - Erwin Van Meir, Advisor: "MMP-14 proteolysis of tumor suppressor BAI1 yields Vasculostatin-40, a novel secreted angiogenesis inhibitor" (07/11) DAN MANVICH - Leonard Howell, Advisor: "Serotonin 5-HT2C Receptor-Mediated Modulation of the Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Cocaine in the Squirrel Monkey" (07/11) AMY MAHAN - Kerry Ressler, Advisor: "Transcriptional Regulation of Homer1a during Pavlovian Fear Conditioning" (08/11) KATE O'TOOLE - Andrew Jenkins, Advisor: "Function of the Intracellular Loop Domain of the GABAAR alpha1 Subunit" (09/11) ANDREA LIATIS - Andrew Miller, Advisor: "Norepinephrine Regulation of Inflammatory Responses during Monocyte Activation and Differentiation and During Acute Stress in Patients with Major Depression" (09/11) EILEEN K. SAWYER - Leonard Howell, Advisor: "Neuroadaptive changes in the serotonin system associated with chronic SSRI treatment in the context of cocaine use" (11/11) MICHAEL C. KELLY - Ping Chen, Advisor: "The Cellular Role of ATOH1 in Development and Regeneration in the Mammalian Cochlea" (11/11) SEYED A. SAFAVYNIA - Lena Ting, Advisor: "Spatiotemporal Determinants of Muscle Activity Throughout Human Postural Responses" (12/11) KRISTEN SAGER CINCOTTA - James Lah, Advisor: "Characterization of LR11/SORLA in Mild Cognitive Impairment" (12/11) MERIEM GAVAL CRUZ - David Weinshenker, Advisor: "Modulators of Behavioral Sensitivity to Cocaine Following Dopamine Beta-Hydroxylase Inhibition" (12/11) STACEY B. B. DUTTON - Andrew Escayg, Advisor: "The Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel SCN1A and Epilepsy" (12/11) JACOB SHRECKENGOST - Shawn Hochman, Advisor: "On the Mechanisms of Presynaptic Inhibition of Primary Afferents" (01/12) SHAREEN IQBAL - Leland Chung, Advisor: "PDGF Upregulates MCL-1 through Activation of Beta-Catenin and HIF-1alpha-dependent Signaling in Cancer" (02/12) LISA L. MATRAGRANO - Donna Maney, Advisor: "Hormone-Dependent Modulation of Auditory Processing and Selectivity in White-Throated Sparrows" (02/12) MEERA MODI - Larry Young, Advisor: "Identifying Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Enhancing Social Cognition using Functional Animal Models" (03/12) VASILIKI MICHOPOULOS - Mark Wilson, Advisor: "Psychosocial Stress Induces Distinct Physiological and Behavioral Phenotypes in Female Rhesus Monkeys" (03/12) SHARON A. SWANGER - Gary Bassell, Advisor: "Bidirectional Control of Dendritic mRNA Translation, Glutamate Receptor Expression, and Synapse Structure by the CPEB-Associated Polyadenylation Machinery" (05/12) TERRELL BROTHERTON - Jonathan Glass, Advisor: "Toxicity and Solubility of Mutant Superoxide Dismutase 1 in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" (08/12) ELAINE PRANSKI - Ranjita Betarbet, Advisor: "Ring Finger Protein 11 (RNF11) Mediates NF-KB Signaling and Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration" (08/12) SAMMY LEE - Lian Li and Lih-Shen Chen, Co-Advisors: "Pathogenesis of Demyelinating Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Caused by Mutations in SIMPLE" (08/12) OSAMA MOHAMAD - Ling Wei, Advisor: "Stem Cells and Optogenetics: Novel Approaches for the Treatment of Focal Ischemic Stroke in Adult Mice" (09/12) CHARITY DURAN - Criss Hartzell, Advisor: "Functional Characterization of Anoctamins, a Novel Family of Transmembrane Proteins" (11/12) ANDREW BROOKS - Gregory Berns, Advisor: "The Neural Coding of Loss" (11/12) S. ALISHA EPPS - David Weinshenker, Advisor: "Seizure Susceptibility and Epileptogenesis in Depression-sensitive Rats" (12/12) JAMES BOGENPOHL - Yoland Smith, Advisor: "Metabotropic Glutamate and Adenosine Receptors in the Monkey Striatopallidal Complex and their Involvement in Parkinsonism: Anatomy, Physiology and Behavior" (12/12) The NIH Awards a Blueprint Training Grant in Computational Neuroscience to Emory Neuroscience Training FacultyUnder this grant, $1.6 million will be received from the National Institutes of Health over 5 years for Emory and Georgia Tech investigators to support a high profile training program in the area of Computational Neuroscience. Emory/Georgia Tech will become one of only 5 recognized national training centers receiving such NIH support. The core training faculty currently consists of 16 faculty members from Departments spanning the Emory Medical School (Physiology, Neurology, Anesthesiology) and Emory College of Arts and Sciences (Biology, Psychology) as well as Georgia Tech (Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering). This range testifies to the highly collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of this field of study at Emory/Georgia Tech. |
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S. Potter Lab's homemade 2-photon laser-scanning microscope
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L. Young Lab - Graduate student Sara Freeman hard at work in the lab
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Y. Smith Lab - Binding of 18F-FECNT (Dopamine Transporter Ligand) in a cross-sectional section at the level of the striatum (PET)
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