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Congratulations to Sarah Street, a postdoc聽from the Zylka聽lab and Hsien Sung-Huang, a postdoc聽from the聽Philpot lab for each receiving a NC TraC$10K Pilot Program award. 聽17 awards were made out of 70 applicants.聽聽These appear to be the only two labs from a basic science department to receive this award. 聽All other...

In the article in PNAS, Eva Anton’s laboratory describes how specific guidance mechanisms involving netrin-integrin interactions modulate distinct routes of interneuronal migration and the consequent positioning of groups of cortical interneurons in the developing cerebral cortex. The emerging evidence for interneuronal subtype鈥搒pecific dysfunction in a variety of neurodevelopmental disorders highlights...

Dante Bortone and Franck Polleux are the lead authors on聽the paper titled “KCC2 expression promotes the termination of cortical interneuron migration in a voltage-sensitive calcium-dependent manner” that聽was published in Neuron. Proper development of cortical microcircuits requires the coordinated transition between neuronal migration and synaptogenesis for both excitatory pyramidal neuronsand inhibitory...

Congratulations to Mohanish Deshmukh who聽recently accepted an invitation to serve on the Editorial Board of Oncogene.聽 Oncogene is a Nature Publication Group family journal with a focus on molecular and cellular biology of cancers. (http://www.nature.com/onc/index.html)

Eva Anton is the PI of this grant The 大象传媒 Neuroscience Center received an Institutional Development Grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to purchase an Olympus Fluoview FV1000-MPE multiphoton microscope for imaging the developing nervous system. Imaging the dynamics of neuronal development and differentiation in real time and in...

  A large multi-institutional collaboration, including Dr. William Snider鈥檚 laboratory, published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science which identifies a critical component in the development of human syndromes involving craniofacial and cardiac defects.聽This work began by characterizing patients with craniofacial and cardiac abnormalities akin to...

Paul Barnes, PhD, a postdoc from Franck Polleux’s lab, accepted a faculty position at Oregon Health & Science University. He is a new Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a member of the newly formed Neurodevelopmental Research Program in Pediatrics. Paul is also the recipient of the Mentored Research Scientist Development...

The 大象传媒 Neuroscience Center has been awarded a five-year, $3,650,000 Center Grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). The Center Grant supports neuroscience research infrastructure by funding cutting edge core facilities. The six core areas that will be supported by this award are genomics and bioinformatics,...

Congratulations to Mohanish Deshmukh who recently accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the International and Cooperative Projects 1 Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. His term will last from July 1, 2008 until June 30, 2012. This selection was based on Dr. Deshmukh鈥檚 achievements in his scientific...

Dr Polleux鈥檚 group in the Neuroscience Center has recently published an article in the Public Access journal PLoS Biology (june 2008 issue) reporting the critical role of Netrin-1 signaling in the establishment of the topography of thalamocortical projections. The first author on this study is Ashton Powell (left), a student...