Congratulations to Dr. Richard Huganir who has been named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor! Dr. Huganir is the Professor and Director of the Department of Neuroscience, Director of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, and Co-Director of the Brain Science Institute.

Publications from Primary Faculty Members - May 2018:

Bridi MCD, de Pasquale R, Lantz CL, Gu Y, Borrell A, Choi SY, He K, Tran T, Hong SZ, Dykman A, Lee HK, Quinlan EM, Kirkwood A. Two distinct mechanisms for experience-dependent homeostasis.  Nat Neurosci. 2018 May 14. doi: 10.1038/s41593-018-0150-0. [Epub ahead of print]

Chen X, Knierim J.  It's About Time: Temporal Dynamics of Dentate Gyrus Pattern Separation.  Neuron. 2018 May 16;98(4):681-683. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.05.007.

Fu C, Rojas T, Chin AC, Cheng W, Bernstein IA, Albacarys LK, Wright WW, Snyder SH. Multiple aspects of male germ cell development and interactions with Sertoli cells require inositol hexakisphosphate kinase-1. Sci Rep. 2018 May 4;8(1):7039. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-25468-8.

Li RC, Lin CC, Ren X, Wu JS, Molday LL, Molday RS, Yau KW.  Ca2+-activated Cl current predominates in threshold response of mouse olfactory receptor neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 May 7. pii: 201803443. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1803443115. [Epub ahead of print]

Minamisawa G, Kwon SE, Chevée M, Brown SP, O'Connor DH. A Non-canonical Feedback Circuit for Rapid Interactions between Somatosensory Cortices.  Cell Rep. 2018 May 29;23(9):2718-2731.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.04.115.

Congratulations to Drs. Vogelstein and Huganir who were awarded a Schmidt Sciences Nascent Innovation Grant!