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Contratulations to Teru Nakagawa
Apr. 7, 2017—Teru just received notification that he is being honored by being awarded a NARSAD Independent Investigator grant from the Brains and Behavior Foundation. I hope you will join with me in congratulating him next time you see him! You can read more about the award in the REPORTER, and about this program here.
Brian Palmisano publishes a paper in Frontiers in Endocrinology!
Apr. 4, 2017—Palmisano BT, Stafford JM, Pendergast JS. High-Fat Feeding Does Not Disrupt Daily Rhythms in Female Mice because of Protection by Ovarian Hormones. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2017 Mar 14;8:44. PMID: 28352249
PLoS One publishes paper by Caleigh Azumaya!
Apr. 4, 2017—Azumaya CM, Days EL, Vinson PN, Stauffer S, Sulikowski G, Weaver CD, Nakagawa T. Screening for AMPA receptor auxiliary subunit specific modulators. PLoS One. 2017 Mar 30;12(3):e0174742. PMID: 28358902
New Nature Communications article from Patel lab…..
Apr. 4, 2017—Bluett RJ, Báldi R, Haymer A, Gaulden AD, Hartley ND, Parrish WP, Baechle J, Marcus DJ, Mardam-Bey R, Shonesy BC, Uddin MJ, Marnett LJ, Mackie K, Colbran RJ, Winder DG, Patel S. Endocannabinoid signalling modulates susceptibility to traumatic stress exposure. Nat Commun. 2017 Mar 28;8:14782. PMID:28348378.
Notable publications in March 2017
Apr. 4, 2017—Papers published in journals with an IF≥5.0 Wang S, Stanika RI, Wang X, Hagen J, Kennedy MB, Obermair GJ, Colbran RJ, Lee A. Densin-180 controls the trafficking and signaling of L-type voltage-gated Cav1.2 Ca2+ channels at excitatory synapses. J Neurosci. 2017 Mar 31. pii: 2583-16. PMID: 28363979. Bluett RJ, Báldi R, Haymer A, Gaulden AD,...
Kudos to our great POD3 staff!
Mar. 21, 2017—The internal audit of the MPB departments is currently wrapping up. This has been going on in the background for about the last four months! Thanks to the tremendous work of Gary Bock, Bess Cahill, Connie Huebschmann and especially Becky Bowden, we came through it in pretty good shape. The auditors identified some minor issues...
Congrats to the Mchaourab lab for their paper in Nature!
Mar. 17, 2017—Nature. 2017 Mar 13. doi: 10.1038/nature21414. Energy transduction and alternating access of the mammalian ABC transporter P-glycoprotein. Verhalen B, Dastvan R, Thangapandian S, Peskova Y, Koteiche HA, Nakamoto RK, Tajkhorshid E, Mchaourab HS.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry published a paper by Amanda Meyer/Johnson
Mar. 10, 2017—Identification of a Transcriptional Activation Domain in Yeast Repressor Activator Protein 1 (Rap1) Using an Altered DNA-Binding Specificity Variant. Johnson AN, Weil PA. J Biol Chem. 2017 Feb 14. pii: jbc.M117.779181. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M117.779181. PMID: 28196871
JOVE publishes paper by Andrea Perreault – watch the video!
Mar. 8, 2017—The ChIP-exo Method: Identifying Protein-DNA Interactions with Near Base Pair Precision. Perreault AA, Venters BJ. J Vis Exp. 2016 Dec 23;(118). doi: 10.3791/55016. PMID: 28060339
Bethany Carboneau publishes a review!
Mar. 8, 2017—Regulation of pancreatic β-cell function and mass dynamics by prostaglandin signaling. Carboneau BA, Breyer RM, Gannon M. J Cell Commun Signal. 2017 Jan 28. doi: 10.1007/s12079-017-0377-7. Review. PMID: 28132118