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Darshan Sapkota, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Dougherty Lab, got funding for his K99 application. With this grant, Darshan will study the role of a new variant of Aquaporin 4 protein in brain function and Alzheimer’s disease. Aquaporin 4 is a water...
Samantha Morris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the university including Ben Humphreys, M.D., Ph.D., Bo Zhang, P.hD., and...
The Dougherty Lab published a paper recently in Genes, Brain and Behavior. The paper, “Celf6 RNA binding protein impairs cocaine conditioned place preference and contextual fear conditioning,” shows that the resistance to change by the Celf6 mutant in the...
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The Dougherty Lab published a paper recently in Autism Research, “Erroneous inference based on a lack of preference within one group: Autism, mice, and the social approach task.” The paper looks at Erroneous Within‐group Only Comparisons, or EWOCs, a term...
Gary Stormo, Ph.D., the Joseph Erlanger Professor in the Department of Genetics and the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology at the School of Medicine, will receive the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award in 2019. Dr. Stormo will receive his award...
The Dougherty Lab was recently awarded a pilot grant from the Center for Clinical Pharmacology for its project, “A new model to understand the developmental deficits associated with fetal exposure to opioids.” Principal Investigators are Ream Al-Hasani,...
The Dutcher Lab is working with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to develop a new method that uses ultrasound waves to trap cells propelled by cilia, and then releases them to measure their movement as they swim away. Susan Dutcher, professor of genetics and...
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