Recent Highlights from NGP Students and Faculty

 

Catherine Christian-Journal of Neuroscience 

Max Vakulenko- Journal of Neuroscience

 Ellena van der Schalie- http://mcb.asm.org/cgi/reprint/MCB.01638-06v1?view=long&pmid=17210647

Nicholas Hargus- JPET article 

 Michael Nelson-Molecular Neurobiology

 Stacey Trotter-Stacey A. Trotter, Jaideep Kapur, Matthew J. Anzivino, and Kevin S. Lee,   GABAergic Synaptic Inhibition Is Reduced before Seizure Onset in a Genetic Model of Cortical Malformation  J. Neurosci. 2006 26: 10756-10767; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2323-06.2006

Jessica Risner-   Risner JR, Holt JR.A Heterogeneous Population of Potassium Conductances Contributes to the Diverse Firing Properties of Postnatal Mouse Vestibular Ganglion Neurons.  J Neurophysiol. 2006 Jul 19; [Epub ahead of print]

Tsutomu Sasaki-  Sasaki T, Maier B, Bartke A, Scrable H. Progressive loss of SIRT1 with cell cycle withdrawal.  Aging Cell. 2006 Aug 25; [Epub ahead of print] 

Joel Baumgart and Nick Friedman- Double Hoo award:
The role of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in T-Type Calcium Channel function and proposed role in Childhood Absence Epilepsy

Michael Nelson-New publications
Nelson 1-Current Pharmaceutical Design
Nelson 2-Journal of Physiology

Graduation May 2006 -Amy Ryan and Erin Doudera Clabough
Not Pictured- Shannon Hardie and Shah Khan

Grad 06                  Grad 06


Cathy Christian-Peach Award Winner and Outstanding Neuroscience Graduate Student

Cristian Bodo-Outstanding Graduate Student in the Sciences and Engineering

Eric Stauffer-Outstanding Graduate Student in the Sciences and Engineering

Stefanie McCormack-
McCormack SG, Stornetta RL and Zhu JJ. (2006) Synaptic AMPA Receptor Exchange Maintains Bidirectional Plasticity. Neuron 50:75-88. The web linker of this paper is:
http://www.neuron.org/content/article/abstractuid=PIIS0896627306002042

Zhu Y, Pak D, Qin Y, McCormack SG, Kim MJ, Baumgart JP, Velamoor V, Auberson YP, Osten P, van Aelst L, Sheng M and Zhu JJ. (2005) Rap2-JNK Removes Synaptic AMPA Receptors during Depotentiation. Neuron 46:905-916. The web linker of this paper is: http://www.neuron.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0896627305004071 

NGP faculty-Jim Coan
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/health/psychology/31marr.html

NESC undergraduate student publications-
Worden, M.K. Clark, C, Conaway M. and Qadri, S. The temperature dependence of cardiac performance in the lobster Homarus americanus. Journal of Experimental Biology

Worden, M.K. and Camacho JA. Dual inhibitor of the dactyl opener muscle in lobster. Journal of Experimental Biology,


Erin B. D.Clabough-
Clabough, E.B.D., and Zeitlin, S.O. (2006) "Deletion of the triplet repeat encoding polyglutamine within the mouse Huntington's disease gene results in subtle behavioral/motor phenotypes in vivo and elevated levels of ATP with cellular senescence in vitro." Hum. Mol. Genet., in press.

Joel Baumgart-
Qin Y*, Zhu Y*, Baumgart JP*, Stornetta RL, Seidenman K, Mack V, van Aelst L, Zhu JJ.State-dependent Ras signaling and AMPA receptor trafficking.  Genes Dev. 2005 Sep 1;19(17):2000-15.  * these authors contributed equally to this publication

Zhu Y, Pak D, Qin Y, McCormack SG, Kim MJ, Baumgart JP, Velamoor V, Auberson YP, Osten P, van Aelst L, Sheng M, Zhu JJ.  Rap2-JNK Removes Synaptic AMPA Receptors during Depotentiation.    Neuron, Vol 46, 905-916, 16 June 2005

Mandell JW, Manabe R, Horwitz AF, and Baumgart JP (2002) Fluorescence Imaging of Mobility Shifts: An Expression Cloning Method for Identification of Cell Signaling Targets. Laboratory Investigation 82(12): 1631-6.

Cathy Christian-PNAS article

Mike Nelson-http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/reprint/25/38/8766
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=30975

Eric Stauffer-Cover of Neuron
http://www.neuron.org/content/issue?volume=47&issue=4