Department News

Congratulations Sarah Milian – winner of a Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies

Jul. 9, 2018—Sarah, entering her fourth year of training in the Jacobson lab, was selected as one of the inaugural winners of the Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies. her work focuses on the physiological role of the two-pore domain K+ channel TALK-1 in human cells.

Claxton and Mchaourab publish “Sodium and proton coupling in the conformational cycle of a MATE antiporter from Vibrio cholerae” in PNAS

Jul. 3, 2018—

Neuropsychopharmacology publishes a paper by Oliver Vranjkovic (Winder lab): “Ketamine administration during a critical period after forced ethanol abstinence inhibits the development of time-dependent affective disturbances”

Jul. 3, 2018—

PNAS paper published by the Neuert lab: “Distribution shapes govern the discovery of predictive models for gene regulation”

Jul. 3, 2018—

MPB Faculty win four School of Medicine Awards!

Jun. 15, 2018—

Hasty lab publishes Trends in Pharmacological Sciences review: “Macrophage-Targeted Therapeutics for Metabolic Disease”

Apr. 27, 2018—

Erkan Karakas co-authors a paper in Neuron: “Structural Mechanism of Functional Modulation by Gene Splicing in NMDA Receptors”

Apr. 27, 2018—

Moore/Cherrington publish in Diabetes (again): “Morning Hyperinsulinemia Primes the Liver for Glucose Uptake and Glycogen Storage Later in the Day”

Apr. 27, 2018—

Mchaourab co-authors a Nature paper: “Mechanism of NMDA receptor channel block by MK-801 and memantine”

Apr. 27, 2018—

Wasserman published review in Circulation Research: “The Vasculature in Prediabetes”

Apr. 27, 2018—

Islet cell consortium (Gu, Jacobson, Stein, Gannon and Magnuson labs) publishes in Developmental Cell: “Synaptotagmin 4 Regulates Pancreatic β Cell Maturation by Modulating the Ca2+ Sensitivity of Insulin Secretion Vesicles””

Apr. 27, 2018—

Congratulations to David Jacobson! Another R01…..

Mar. 23, 2018—The new grant (1R01DK115620-01), titled DESIGNING SELECTIVE TALK-1 INHIBITORS TO REDUCE BETA-CELL DYSFUNCTION IN DIABETES, will test the central hypothesis that the inhibition of TALK-1 potassium channels in pancreatic beta cells normalizes Ca2+ homeostasis under diabetic conditions, preventing beta-cell dysfunction and maintaining euglycemia.

Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

Department News

Congratulations Sarah Milian – winner of a Dean’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in Graduate Studies

Claxton and Mchaourab publish “Sodium and proton coupling in the conformational cycle of a MATE antiporter from Vibrio cholerae” in PNAS

Neuropsychopharmacology publishes a paper by Oliver Vranjkovic (Winder lab): “Ketamine administration during a critical period after forced ethanol abstinence inhibits the development of time-dependent affective disturbances”

PNAS paper published by the Neuert lab: “Distribution shapes govern the discovery of predictive models for gene regulation”

MPB Faculty win four School of Medicine Awards!

Hasty lab publishes Trends in Pharmacological Sciences review: “Macrophage-Targeted Therapeutics for Metabolic Disease”

Erkan Karakas co-authors a paper in Neuron: “Structural Mechanism of Functional Modulation by Gene Splicing in NMDA Receptors”

Moore/Cherrington publish in Diabetes (again): “Morning Hyperinsulinemia Primes the Liver for Glucose Uptake and Glycogen Storage Later in the Day”

Mchaourab co-authors a Nature paper: “Mechanism of NMDA receptor channel block by MK-801 and memantine”

Wasserman published review in Circulation Research: “The Vasculature in Prediabetes”

Islet cell consortium (Gu, Jacobson, Stein, Gannon and Magnuson labs) publishes in Developmental Cell: “Synaptotagmin 4 Regulates Pancreatic β Cell Maturation by Modulating the Ca2+ Sensitivity of Insulin Secretion Vesicles””

Congratulations to David Jacobson! Another R01…..

Work from the Cherrington/Moore labs published in Diabetes……

Daniel Lark publishes in Diabetes….

Paper in Biological Psychiatry by Brian Shonesy…..