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Congratulations to Dr. Jun Hee Kim and Postdoctoral Fellow Tara Barron for their publication in Glia!! Click here to learn more.
July 19, 2019
Article titled: Neuronal input triggers Ca2+ influx through AMPA receptors and voltage‐gated Ca2+ channels in oligodendrocytes. Click here to read it.

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Shapiro who was featured news article by News4SA on his studies of TBI treatment! Click here to learn more.
July 17, 2019
To Learn more click here: New therapy treatment could stop brain trauma seizures

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 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).