Congratulations to Neuroscience Graduate students Althea Cavanaugh, David Ottenheimer, and Cody Call who have each been awarded a National Science Foundtation Graduate Research Fellowship for 2017!

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.

In a recent issue of Neuron, Agarwal et al. (2017) report that calcium efflux from mitochondria during brief openings of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) contribute to calcium microdomains.

SiYing (Sally) Li, a first year graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience, has been selected as the recipient of the 2016-2017 Fred and Ruth Kort Young Scholar Fund.  Fred and Ruth Kort Young established this award to support outstanding first-year graduate students.   

Publications from Primary Faculty Members - March 2017:

Chiu SL, Diering GH, Ye B, Takamiya K, Chen CM, Jiang Y, Niranjan T, Schwartz CE, Wang T, Huganir RL.  GRASP1 Regulates Synaptic Plasticity and Learning through Endosomal Recycling of AMPA Receptors. Neuron. 2017 Mar 8. pii: S0896-6273(17)30139-3. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.02.031. [Epub ahead of print]

Cox E, Hwang W, Uzoma I, Hu J, Guzzo C, Jeong J, Matunis M, Qian J, Zhu H, Blackshaw S.  Global analysis of SUMO-binding proteins identifies SUMOylation as a key regulator of the INO80 chromatin remodeling complex. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2017 Mar 2. pii: mcp.M116.063719. doi: 10.1074/mcp.M116.063719. [Epub ahead of print]

Gao M, Whitt JL, Huang S, Lee A, Mihalas S, Kirkwood A, Lee HK. Experience-dependent homeostasis of 'noise' at inhibitory synapses preserves information coding in adult visual cortex. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2017 Mar 5;372(1715). pii: 20160156. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0156.

Li Z, Tseng PY, Tiwari V, Xu Q, He SQ, Wang Y, Zheng Q, Han L, Wu Z, Blobaum AL, Cui Y, Tiwari V, Sun S, Cheng Y, Huang-Lionnet JH, Geng Y, Xiao B, Peng J, Hopkins C, Raja SN, Guan Y, Dong X.  Targeting human Mas-related G protein-coupled receptor X1 to inhibit persistent pain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Mar 7;114(10):E1996-E2005. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1615255114. Epub 2017 Feb 21.