Tzima lab student Daniel Sweet awarded American Heart Association fellowship
July 14, 2009
July 2009 - AHA predoctoral fellowship will provide two years of support for Dan's project in the Tzima lab.
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Tibetan monks and nuns in India learn neuroscience by using Ann Stuart’s Neurons in Action software and tutorials
July 9, 2009
July 2009 鈥� Tibetan monks and nuns in Dharamsala, India, recently used Neurons in Action 2, co-authored by Professor Ann Stuart and Duke Professor Emeritus John Moore, to learn neurophysiology in a course taught by Emory professors (the Emory Tibet Science Initiative). One of the professors, Dieter Jaeger, wrote 鈥淣IA2...
Zylka lab finds that Mrgprd enhances excitability in nociceptive (pain-sensing) neurons
July 7, 2009
The Journal of Neuroscience publishes findings by the Zylka lab, in collaboration with labs at Caltech and the University of Pittsburgh, that the G protein-coupled receptor called Mrgprd enhances excitability in nociceptive (pain-sensing) neurons.
Kadmiel awarded American Heart Association fellowship
June 30, 2009
June 2009 - Caron lab graduate student, Mahita Kadmiel, has been awarded two years of support from the American Heart Association.
Two department students receive Integrative Vascular Biology Training Program training grants
June 15, 2009
June 2009 - Maggie McCormick and Samantha Strickland are accepted into 大象传媒's Integrative Vascular Biology Training Program.
Philpot lab reverses plasticity defects in a mouse model of the mental retardation Angelman syndrome
May 15, 2009
Philpot lab reverses plasticity defects in a mouse model of the mental retardation Angelman syndrome Philpot 5/10/2009 鈥� Researchers in Ben Philpot鈥檚 lab have discovered in mice how a single disrupted gene can cause a form of severe mental retardation known as Angelman syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. In a...
Kathleen Caron receives American Heart Association’s National Established Investigator Award
January 8, 2009
January 2009 鈥� Assistant Professor Kathleen Caron, PhD, has been awarded the American Heart Association鈥檚 National Established Investigator Award! This five year award 鈥渟upports mid-term investigators with unusual promise who have demonstrated a commitment to the cardiovascular or cerebrovascular science area as indicated by prior publication history and accomplishments.鈥� Only...
Otey lab uncovering connections between breast cancer metastasis and palladin
November 19, 2008
November 2008 - Goicoechea et al publish paper in Oncogene.
New faculty member – Andrea Azcarate-Peril, PhD
November 19, 2008
October 2008 - Please welcome Andrea Azc谩rate-Peril, PhD
Video: Zylka and colleagues discover new treatment for pain
November 10, 2008
Video: Mark Zylka, PhD, and members of his lab, together with colleagues at the University of Helsinki, have discovered a new therapeutic target for pain control, one that appears to be eight times more effective at suppressing pain than morphine.