Publications from Primary Faculty Members - May 2017:

Cox E, Hwang W, Uzoma I, Hu J, Guzzo CM, Jeong J, Matunis MJ, 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 May;16(5):812-823. doi: 10.1074/mcp.M116.063719. Epub 2017 Mar 2.

Kajstura TJ, Dougherty SE, Linden DJ. Serotonin axons in the neocortex of the adult female mouse regrow after traumatic brain injury. J Neurosci Res. 2017 May 9. doi: 10.1002/jnr.24059. [Epub ahead of print]

Severson KS, Xu D, Van de Loo M, Bai L, Ginty DD, O'Connor DH. Active Touch and Self-Motion Encoding by Merkel Cell-Associated Afferents. Neuron. 2017 May 3;94(3):666-676.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.03.045. Epub 2017 Apr 20.

Congratulations to the following Graduate Student and Postdoc winners of the 2017 Young Inverstigator's Awards!

 Scroll down past the list for more information on our award winning Neuroscience members.

Graduate Students

Jonathan Grima – Jeff Rothstein’s lab

The Paul Ehrlich Research Award

Mutant Huntingtin Disrupts the Nuclear Pore Complex

Kai Liu – Seth Blackshaw’s lab

The Mette Strand Research Award

Lhx6-Expressing GABAergic Neurons of the Zona Incerta Promote Sleep

Shuohao Sun – Xinzhong Dong’s lab

The Alicia Showalter-Reynolds Research Award

Leaky Gate Model:  Intensity-Dependent Coding of Pain and Itch

Postdocs

Graham Diering, PhD -  lab of Richard Huganir

The Daniel Nathans Research Award

Homeostatic Scaling of Excitatory Synapses During Sleep

Sung-Eun (Sam) Kwon, PhD – lab of Daniel H. O’Connor

The Albert Lehninger Research Award

Cortical Circuits for Touch Perception