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Carie R. Boychuk, Ph.D

Congratulations to Dr. Carie Boychuk for receiving the UT System Rising STARs award!! Click here to learn more.

June 6, 2019

Click here to read the recent article about Dr. Boychuk receiving the UT System Rising STARs award.



Congratulations to Dr. Jim Nelson’s lab for their publication in Aging Cell! Click here to read the article.

May 14, 2019

Cheng, CJ, Gelfond, JAL, Strong, R, Nelson, JF. Genetically heterogeneous mice exhibit a female survival advantage that is age‐ and site‐specific: Results from a large multi‐site study. Aging Cell. 2019; 18:e12905. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12905


Congratulations to Dr. Veronica Galvan for being featured in a Medscape article. Click here to read the article.

April 30, 2019

Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown – Early Dementia Biomarker – Medscape



Congratulations to the Kim lab for their publication in eLife! Click here to read the article.

April 19, 2019

Click here to read the article.    Jang M, Xu J, Kim EJ, Gould EA, and Kim JH. Oligodendrocytes regulate presynaptic properties and neurotransmission through BDNF signaling. eLife, 2019



Congratulations to Tara Barron for successfully defending her dissertation!

April 18, 2019

On April 17, 2019, Neuroscience graduate student Tara Barron (pictured above) presented her dissertation defense titled: ‘Physiological Implications of Neuron-Oligodendrocyte Interaction’ to a lecture hall audience, whose members included her defense committee. She then went through a review of her dissertation and a question and answer process with the defense committee, before she was notified that she […]



Congratulations to Dr. Swati Banerjee’s group for their recent publication in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience!!

April 16, 2019

Shi, Q., Lin, Y. Q., Saliba, A., Xie, J., Neely, G. G. and Banerjee, S. (2019). Tubulin Polymerization Promoting Protein, Ringmaker, and MAP1B Homolog Futsch Coordinate Microtubule Organization and Synaptic Growth. Frontiers in Cell Neurosci. (in press).