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The Lee Lab publishes in The Journal of Neuroscience and is featured on the cover

March 15, 2024


Josue Lopez and colleagues from the Lee Lab published a reserach article in The Journal of Neuroscience entitled "Caldendrin Is a Repressor of PIEZO2 Channels and Touch Sensation in Mice". This study investigated the role of the calmodulin-like Ca2+ sensor, caldendrin, in the regulation of mechanically activated ion channels and their roles in touch sensation. 

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INS Grad Student Kanako Matsumura receives NRSA Award from NIDA

March 6, 2024
Congratulations to INS graduate student Kanako Matsumura (Dobbs Lab) on being awarded an NRSA from NIDA for her research proposal entiteld "Recruitment of striatal enkephalin by cocaine as a substrate for striatopallidal circuit adaptations and cocaine seeking"!

Dr. Jon Pierce receives CNS Spark Grant

February 7, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Jon Pierce on being award a CNS Spark Grant to support his research proposal entitled "Predicting Genes that Cause Phenotypes as Extra Copies".

The CNS Spark Grants program supports new ideas that have the potential to elevate or transform a research program but that are too early-stage in development to be appropriate for external funding opportunities. The program encourages high-risk/high-reward projects. Applicants may propose to develop new methods or to gather preliminary data for new directions in research. Proposals for exploratory,

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Colgin lab publishes in Nature Translational Psychiatry

January 10, 2024

The Colgin Lab published a research article entiteld, "Ank3 mouse model of epilepsy-bipolar disorder comorbidity" in Nature Translational Psychiatry. The research reveals the potential comorbid role the gene ankyrn 3 (ANK3) may play in bipolar disorder and epilepsy. ANK3 is a leading bipolar disorder (BD) candidate gene and has also been shown to be invovled in

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Dr. Michael Drew elected member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology

December 14, 2023

Dr. Michael Drew was elected to full member stats in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ANCP).

The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology is an international organization of leading brain scientists. Sceintists are selected for membershipon the basis of their original research contributions, and are drawn from diverse subfields of neuroscience, including behavioral pharmacology, clinical psychopharmacology, epidemiology, genetics, molecular biology, neurochemistry, neuroendocrinology, neuroimaging, neuroimmunology, neurophysiology, neurology,

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Dr. Thibaud Taillefumier chosen as a 2024-25 Provost's Mentored Faculty Scholar

November 16, 2023

Dr. Thibaud Taileefumier was among the 17 junior facluty selected from across the University to participate in the Provost’s Mentored Faculty Scholars interdisciplinary mentorship program.

The Provost’s Mentored Faculty Scholars program augments traditional, within-department faculty mentoring at UT by facilitating 1:1 mentor-mentee pairing across departments, or even across colleges.  This program offers a 1 year scholarship for junior faculty to engage with mentors to work on a range of activities, including proposals for external funding, scholarly

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INS Grad Student Jamie Palmer receives Trainee Professional Development Award from SfN

September 11, 2023

Jamie Palmer, graduate student in the Donegan Lab, was awarded a 2023 Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) award from the Society of Neuroscience.  This award recognizes undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research by providing a stipend to offset the registration and travel costs to attend the 2023 SfN Meeting.  Jamie will present their research at a TPDA poster session on Saturday, November 11 and attend two professional development workshops during the meeting.

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