The Dougherty Lab has a new preprint, “Shared developmental gait disruptions across two mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders.” Rachel Rahn, a graduate student in the lab, is lead author on the preprint. David Gutmann, MD, PhD, Director, Washington...
The Dougherty Lab published a paper in Nature Communications, “Loss of Quaking RNA binding protein disrupts the expression of genes associated with astrocyte maturation in mouse brain.” Lead author is Kristina Sakers, PhD, a former graduate student in the...
The Dougherty Lab has a new paper in Behavioral Neuroscience, “Ontogenetic Oxycodone Exposure Affects Early-Life Communicative Behaviors, Sensorimotor Reflexes, and Weight Trajectory in Mice.” Elena Minakova, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at...
Jason Yi, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine, and Susan Maloney, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine and a member of the Dougherty Lab in the Department of Genetics, are...
The Dougherty Lab has a new preprint, “A MYT1L Syndrome mouse model recapitulates patient phenotypes and reveals altered brain development due to disrupted neuronal maturation.” The preprint shares the lab’s work on the MYT1L gene and its...
The Dougherty Lab has a new preprint, “Shared developmental gait disruptions across two mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders.” Rachel Rahn, a graduate student in the lab, is first author on the preprint. Joe Dougherty, PhD, Associate Professor of...
The Dougherty Lab has a new preprint, “Ontogenetic Oxycodone Exposure Affects Early-Life Communicative Behaviors, Sensorimotor Reflexes, and Weight Trajectory in Mice.” Elena Minakova, MD, a collaborating researcher in the lab and a a neonatologist at...
Susan Maloney, PhD, a member of the Dougherty Lab, was recently promoted to Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine. Congratulations, Dr. Maloney!
The Dougherty Lab published a new paper in Brain and Behavior, “The trajectory of gait development in mice.” Shyam Akula, a former undergraduate researcher in the lab, is first author on the paper. Joe Dougherty, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics at...
The Dougherty Lab recently had a paper published in Human Molecular Genetics, “Functions of Gtf2i and Gtf2ird1 in the developing brain: transcription, DNA-binding, and long term behavioral consequences.” Nathan Kopp, PhD, a former graduate student in the...
The Dougherty Lab had a paper published recently in Human Molecular Genetics. The paper, “Gtf2i and Gtf2ird1 mutation do not account for the full phenotypic effect of the Williams syndrome critical region in mouse models,” thoroughly defines a set of...
The Dougherty Lab recently presented at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago. Dr. Susan Maloney, Instructor in Psychiatry and a member of the Dougherty Lab, presented on modeling social motivation in the mouse and the role of Shank3B and the oxytocin...
The Dougherty Lab has new preprint on the trajectory of gait development in mice. The preprint includes first author Shyam Akula, a graduate student at Harvard Medical School, and senior authors Joseph Dougherty, Ph,D., Associate Professor of Genetics at Washington...
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...
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...
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,...
Susan Maloney, Ph.D., Instructor in Psychiatry and a member of the Dougherty Lab, recently had a first-author paper published in Scientific Reports. The paper, “Repeated neonatal isoflurane exposures in the mouse induce apoptotic degenerative changes in the...
The Dougherty lab recently shared its new preprint, “Erroneous inference based on a lack of preference within one group: autism, mice, and the Social Approach Task.” In the paper, the lab argues using statistical principles and data simulations that...
The Dougherty lab published a paper recently in eNeuro. The paper, “Examining the Reversibility of Long-Term Behavioral Disruptions in Progeny of Maternal SSRI Exposure,” looks at how maternal fluoxetine treatment can induce behavioral disruptions in...
