A new study led by Drs. Tuncdemir and Grosmark recently published in Neuron is titled ‘Adult-born granule cells facilitate remapping of spatial and non-spatial representations in the dentate gyrus’. The hippocampus is brain structure central for several forms of memory including the episodic memories that let us keep track of what’s previously happened to us, and […]
Trakhtenberg lab discovers novel mechanism of axon regeneration
A new discovery from Trakhtenberg lab, recently published in Experimental Neurology, revealed a novel class of molecular regulators of axon regeneration. The discovery was covered in the news article, UConn Health Researchers Find that Youthful Proteins Help Nerves Regrow (by Kim Krieger, published in UConn Today). The study was funded by the NIH National Eye […]
Breakthrough Neuroimmunology Study to be Featured at SfN Meeting
A recent study lead by Pearl Sutter, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Stephen Crocker, which appeared in the prestigious Journal of Experimental Medicine (IF 17.579) on Sept 4, 2023 has received notice that it will also appear in a select issue of that journal to be released at the upcoming Society for […]