Oct 2024 – A Kalinski co-organized an EMBO- Company of Biologists Workshop Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration hosted at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Okinawa, Japan.
Aug 2024 – A Kalinski joined the Center as new faculty, moving her already active lab and grants from Ball State University.
Aug 2024 – Courtney Buchanan (Twiss lab) successfully defended her doctoral thesis – YAY DR BUCHANAN!
Aug 2024 – Matthew Zdradzinski (Twiss lab) accepted a Scientist position at Eicon Therapeutics in New York.
June 2024 – K Welshhans presented Local protein synthesis during neural development: implications for health and disease at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
May 2024 – Cotes Royson (Twiss Lab) was selected for Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaulkee.
May 2024 – Molly Conway was selected for a DAAD RISE award for summer research in Erlangen, Germany at the Uniklinikum Erlangen.
April 2024 – F Poulain presented Destroy to build: trans-axonal degenerative signaling shapes neural circuits during development at University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
Mar 2024 – K Welshhans presented Axonal protein synthesis in neurodevelopment and Down syndrome at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.
Feb 2024 – J Twiss presented Localized RNA Regulons for supporting axon growth and regeneration at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
Feb 2024 – J Twiss presented Localized RNA Regulons for supporting axon growth and regeneration at University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Jan 2024 – F Poulain presented Destroy to build: trans-axonal degenerative signaling shapes neural circuits during development at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
Jan 2024 – J Twiss presented Adventures with Axonal RNAs – How Art moved our needle at Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Jan 2024 – DS Smith was promoted from Associate Professor to Professor of Biological Sciences.
Dec 2023 – K Welshhans co-organized the subgroup Emerging Cell Biology Concepts in Neural Function and Disease at the ASCB-EMBO Annual Meeting (Cell Bio 2023) in Boston, MA.
Sept 2023 – S Davis co-chaired the organizing committee for the Southeast regional meeting for the Society of Developmental Biology in Mobile, AL.
Aug 2023 – K Welshhans was awarded an NIH Administrative Supplement to her R01 award to support the work of Jordan Headon in her lab.
June 2023 – S Davis received word that a collaborative NIH R01 with Univ Michigan, entitled Discovery Pipeline for Genetic Defects in Hypothalamic-Pituitary Development Using International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium Mice, will be funded for 5 years, at $783,770 for the USC component.
June 2023 – Matthew Zdradzinski (Twiss lab) successfully defended his doctoral thesis. YAY DR. ZDRADZINSKI!
May 2023 – S Davis was awarded the Richard R. Ferrante Friend of the Genetic Counseling Program
April 2023 – Manasi Agrawal (Welshhans lab) successfully defended her doctoral theis YAY DR. AGRAWAL! (though she is a Kent Univ student, we still claim credit from her last 2 years at USC)
April 2023 – Liz Iglesius (Twiss Lab) was selected for the UCSF Undergraduate Summer Research Program and Emma Mason (Twiss Lab) was selected for the Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
Mar 2023 – K Welshhans was awarded an NIH R01, Regulating axon guidance through local translation at adhesions, for $1,872,670 over 5 years.
Mar 2023 – Anne Ventrone received honorable mention for her NSF GRFP application Does LIS1 move with dynein in axons?
Mar 2023 – Emma Mason (Twiss lab) was selected as a Barry Goldwater Fellow, one of just over 400 awarded in the US.
Mar 2023 – K Welshhans presented Local translation of b-actin mRNA at adhesions and its role in axon guidance at the IUBMB EMBO Workshop: Emerging Concepts of the Neuronal Cytoskeleton in Santa Cruz, Chile.
Oct 2022 – JL Twiss was awarded a 3 year grant from the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation, Targeting Axon Intrinsic Pathways to Accelerate Regeneration and Promote Neuroprotection, for $1,190,401.
Oct 2022 – JL Twiss presented mRNAs survival tunes axon regeneration rates at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Workshop on ‘Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration’, Okinawa, Japan.
Oct 2022 – JL Twiss presented the keynote lecture, Venturing into axons, from heretical ideas to growth acceleration, at the Delaware State University/University of Delaware COBRE program annual retreat, Newark, Delaware.
Sept 2022 – JL Twiss presented the keynote lecture, Targeting Axon Intrinsic Mechanisms to Accelerate Neural Repair, at the Burke Neurological Institute Annual Retreat in Crystal Springs, New Jersey.
Sept 2022 – K Welshhans was awarded a grant from the Whitehall Foundation entitled, Coordinated control of local translation mediates brain development, for $300,000.
Sept 2022 – K Welshhans was awarded a grant entitled, SC INBRE DRP - Molecular and cellular basis of altered neural development in Down syndrome, from the SC INBRE Program (NIH/NIGMS) for $73,659.
Sept 2022 – F Poulain and K Welshhans gave oral presentations at the Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
Sept 2022 – F Poulain gave the keynote lecture for the 29th anniversary of the Institute of Neurobiology of Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Querétaro, México.
Aug 2022 – F Poulain was promoted to Tenured Associate Professor of Biological Sciences.
July 2022 – JL Twiss presented Localized RNA Regulons for supporting axon growth and regeneration at EMBO Workshop on ‘RNA Localization and Local Translation’ in Sant Feliu De Guixols, Spain.
July 2022 – F Poulain presented Destroy to build: Teneurin trans-axonal prunes topographically missorted axons at the 17th International Zebrafish Conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
July 2022 – JL Twiss published KHSRP Increases Neuronal Growth and Synaptic Transmission and Alters Memory Consolidation Through RNA Stabilization in the journal Communications Biology.
June 2022 – F Poulain presented Destroy to build: trans-axonal degenerative signaling shapes neural circuits during development at the Society for Developmental Biology Southeast Conference in Chapel Hill, NC.
March 2022 – F Poulain presented It gets better with time: dynamic refinement of neural circuits in vivo at the IZFS Webinar Series.
Feb 2022 – JL Twiss presented Targeting axon-intrinsic mechanisms to improve neural repair in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Seminar Series, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA.
Jan 2022 – DS Smith was awarded NIH grant R21-NS125481, Using LIS1 missense mutations to probe dynein regulatory mechanisms, as PI for $401,128 over 2022-2024.
Jan 2022 – S Lizarraga’s research program was featured in SFARI Autism Spectrum News, Loss of a top autism gene may neuron structure.
Jan 2022 – JL Twiss presented Targeting axon-intrinsic mechanisms to improve neural repair in the Neuroscience Seminar Series, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
April 2022 – Emma Mason (Twiss Lab) was selected for the Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
April 2022 – Zhenhua Shang (Davis lab) successfully defended his doctoral thesis. YAY DR. SHANG!
Mar 2022 – DS Smith was awarded NIH grant R21-NS123539, Deciphering the cellular roles of LIS1 in the mature nervous system, as PI for $398,798 over 2022-2024.
Mar 2022 – JL Twiss was an invited speaker at the Central Nervous System Injury and Repair Gordon Research Conference in Oxnard, CA where he presented Local RNA Destabilization Hinders Axon Regeneration.
Oct 2021 – S Davis presented Of Dwarf Mice and Men: Tissue Specific Contributions to Pituitary Gland Organogenesis at the University of Iowa Department of Cell Biology, Iowa City, IA.
Sept 2021 – F Poulain was awarded NIH grant R21-NS124542, Beyond ephrins: unbiased discovery of novel signaling pathways regulating topographic map formation and maturation in vivo, as PI for $407,545 over 2021-2023.
Sept 2021 – JL Twiss presented New approaches to accelerate nerve regeneration for the 7th Annual Peripheral Nerve Surgery Lectureship (‘The Dellen Lecture’) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Aug 2021 – JL Twiss received the Craig H. Nielsen Foundation Senior Research Award, Axonal Stress Granules in Spinal Cord Injury, as PI for ~$600,000 over 2021-2024.
Aug 2021 – Research publication from PK Sahoo and JL Twiss was featured with an online cover image in the August 2021 issue of the Society for Neuroscience’s eNeuro journal.
July 2021 – JL Twiss awarded competing renewal NIH R01 grant R01-NS089633-06, Destabilization of axonal mRNAs by KHSRP controls axon regeneration, as PI for approximately $2,003,174 over 2021-2026.
June 2021 – Agrawal, M. & Welshhans, K. presented Altered developmental morphology of human iPSC-derived Down syndrome neurons and primary hippocampal neurons overexpressing DSCAM at the T21RS Virtual Conference.
May 2021 – JL Twiss presented Localized translation supports axon growth, at the 2nd Annual CSNK2A1 Scientific Meeting, Simons Foundation and CKSN2A1 Foundation.
May 2021 – PK Sahoo presented Localized translation of Csnk2a1 mRNA supports axon growth, at the 2nd Annual CSNK2A1 Scientific Meeting, Simons Foundation and CKSN2A1 Foundation.
April 2021 – Agrawal, M. & Welshhans, K. presented DSCAM overexpression replicates neuronal morphology alterations observed in human Down syndrome iPSC-derived neurons during development at the Graduate Research Symposium, Kent State University, Kent, OH.
April 2021 – JL Twiss presented Regulating the axonal proteome through mRNA transport and translation at the Biological Sciences Department Seminar Series, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
Mar 2021 – JL Twiss presented Mechanisms of axonal mRNA transport and translation supporting nerve regeneration in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH.
Mar 2021 – S Lizarraga was awarded NIH grant R01-MH127081, ASH1L mediated transcription networks in autism spectrum disorders, as PI for $3,542,251 over 2021-2026.
Mar 2021 – Olivia Spead (Poulain lab) successfully defended her doctoral thesis. YAY DR. SPEAD!
Mar 2021 – F Poulain presented Destroy to build: selective axon degeneration for the wiring of neuronal circuits in vivo at the University of Vermont Burlington, VT (virtual visit)
Mar 2021 – Journal of Cell Science featured Matthew Zdradzinski, a graduate student in the Twiss lab, in their First Person interview series for recently published manuscripts.
Mar 2021 – JL Twiss presented Mechanisms of axonal mRNA translation to accelerate nerve regeneration at the Biomedical Seminar Series, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV.
Feb 2021 – K Welshhans presented Local protein synthesis during Neural Development: Implications for Health and Disease at University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio (virtual visit).
Jan 2021 – New discovery from Janay Vacharasin and Sofia Lizarraga was featured in Spectrum News from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative.
Jan 2021 – Agrawal M. & Welshhans, K. presented Dscam overexpression impairs neuronal morphology during development at the Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome meeting.
Jan 2021 – JL Twiss presented Mechanisms of axonal mRNA transport and translation supporting nerve regeneration at the Bascom-Palmer Eye Institute Meeting on ‘Protein synthesis and membrane expansion in neuronal regeneration’, University of Miami, Miami, FL.
Jan 2021 – JL Twiss presented Regulating the axonal proteome through mRNA transport and translation, at the RNA Institute Seminar Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Dec 2020 – T Smith presented Post-transcriptional Control of Pain at the US Association for Study of Pain Meeting [platform presentation].
Oct 2020 – T Smith presented Injury-induced changes in the central sensory axonal transcriptome at The International Online Spinal Cord Injury Research Seminars (i-OSCIRS)
Sept 2020 – Agrawal M. & Welshhans K. presented Dscam overexpression impairs neuronal morphology during development at the ‘Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity’ meeting in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY.
Sept 2020 – F Poulain presnted Destroy to build: selective axon degeneration for the wiring of neuronal circuits in vivo at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN (virtual visit)
Aug 2020 – K Welshhans joined the USC SmartState Center for Childhood Neurotherapeutics as tenure-line Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences.
Aug 2020 – F Poulain received the Breakthrough Star Award from the USC Vice President for Research Office.
June 2020 – JL Twiss, PL Sahoo, and AN Kar were award a US Patent (#10,668,128) entitled Targeting G3BP proteins to accelerate nerve regeneration.
May 2020 – J Clytus was chosen as a Neuroscience Scholars Program Associate by the Society for Neuroscience.
May 2020 – S Lizarraga presented Epigenetic mechanisms and neurotrophin signaling in autism spectrum disorders at the NGF webinar series
March 2020 – F Poulain presented Destroy to build: selective axon degeneration for the wiring of neuronal circuits in vivo at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in Kansas City, MO
Oct 2019 – JL Twiss presented RNA-protein interactions as drivers of axon regeneration, Texas A&M University Institute For Neuroscience, College Station, TX.
Oct 2019 – Jeff Twiss presented Axonal signaling and growth cone remodeling, Neuronal Maturation Workshop, Wellcome Trust, London, UK.
Oct 2019 – Jeff Twiss presented Targeting axonal stress granules to accelerate axon regeneration, Seminar Series, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK.
Sept 2019 – F Poulain presented Destroy to build: selective axon degeneration for the wiring of neuronal circuits in vivo at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX
Aug 2019 – JL Twiss presented Signaling Mechanisms for Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Axons in ‘RNA Control of Axonal Functions” Symposium, International Society for Neurochemistry/American Society for Neurochemistry joint meeting, Montreal, Canada.
Aug 2019 – JL Twiss presented Modulating nerve growth through RNA-protein interactions. Invited Speaker, 13th International Symposium on Mass Spectrometry in the Health & Life Sciences: Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, San Francisco, CA.
July 2019 – JL Twiss presented Regulation of Axonal Protein Synthesis by G3BP1 Aggregation, Gordon Research Conference on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Stowe, VT.
June 2019 – S Lizarraga presented Epigenetic regulation of neurotrophin signaling in autism spectrum disorders at the Gordon Research Conference on Neurotrophic Mechanisms in Health and Disease in Newport, Rhode Island.
June 2019 – J Twiss chaired Injury and Growth Control session at the Gordon Research Conference on Neurotrophic Mechanisms in Health and Disease in Newport, Rhode Island.
June 2019 – J Twiss presented Axonal mRNA Translational Control at the Gordon Research Conference on Central Nervous System Injury and Repair, Waterville Valley, NH.
June 2019 – D Smith was awarded a pilot grant from South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund.
June 2019 – J Twiss and J Roberts (USC Psychology) were awarded a University of South Carolina Excellence Initiative entitled Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Center of Excellence for new faculty recruitment and advancing existing programs.
May 2019 - F Poulain presented “A novel role for Glypican-3 in pre-target topographic axon sorting in the visual system” at the Midwest Zebrafish Meeting in Lexington, KY.
April 2019 – S Lizarraga presented Epigenetic mechanisms in autism spectrum disorders and JL Twiss presented Intersection of epigenetics and mitochondrial function in Autism Spectrum Disorders in the “Autism - Genome to Phenome” session at the South Carolina EPSCoR Annual Meeting in Greenville, SC.
April 2019 – JL Twiss presented Regulation of axonal mRNA translation and growth by stress granule in the Neuroscience Seminar Series at the Mayo-Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Mar 2019 – F Poulain presented Internalization and propagation of amyloid-b oligomers in vivo at the Charleston Conference on Alzheimer’s disease in Charleston, SC.
Jan 2019 – F Poulain presented Proteoglycan-mediated trans-axonal signaling establishes pre-target axon sorting in the visual system at the Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators in Asilomar, CA.
Dec 2018 - Fabienne Poulain was awarded an five year NIH R01 grant from Role of proteoglycan-mediated trans-axonal signaling in pre-target topographic sorting (Jeff Twiss is a co-investigator).
Nov 2018 – JL Twiss chaired the ‘RNA control of Axonal Functions’ Symposium at the Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting where he presented Signaling mechanisms for regulation of protein synthesis in axons in San Diego, CA.
Nov 2018 – D Smith gave invited seminar, What, when, where, and how fast? Regulation of axonal transport, at the South Carolina Center for Targeted Therapeutics Annual Retreat, Columbia, SC.
Oct 2018 – JL Twiss presented Leveraging molecular knowledge of growth mechanisms for neural in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminar Series at Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
Oct 2018 – D Smith delivered the Keynote Address, What, when, where, and how fast? Regulation of axonal transport, at the USC College of Pharmacy Graduate Program Retreat, Columbia, SC.
Oct 2018 – JL Twiss presented Regulation of axon growth by mRNA transport and translational control Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology seminar series at University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Aug 2018 – S Lizarraga presented The role of ASH1L in autism spectrum disorders at the SC INBRE science conference in Columbia, SC.
Sept 2018 – S Lizarraga was awarded a 3 year NIH COBRE grant (P20GM103641) as Target Investigator for the project, Role of Resveratrol in autism spectrum disorders.
June 2018 - J Twiss presented RNA translation in axons, a heretical hypothesis of axon growth as the Keynote Speaker in the 4th Annual Shriners - Temple Symposium on Neural Repair held in Philadelphia, PA.
May 2018 – S Davis presented Characterization of the Peromyscus maniculatus mutation Dominant spot at the Peromyscus Genetic Stock Center Symposium held in Columbia, SC.
April 2018 - Mara Cowan (undergraduate researcher in Lizarraga lab) was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (she also was accepted to several prestigious doctoral programs and will matriculate to the University of Pennsylvania in August 2018).
April 2018 – S Lizarraga presented Modeling Neurodevelopmental disorders with stem cell technology at the University of Maryland, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics in College Park, MD.
April 2018 – F Poulain’s work featured in USC Breakthrough Research Magazine - Spring 2018 Issue, Fluorescent Neurons.
April 2018 – J Twiss presented Intersection of epigenetic regulation and mitochondrial function in autism at the SC EPSCoR Annual Meeting in Columbia, SC.
April 2018- J Twiss presented Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in development and repair of the nervous system in the Culture and Life Seminar Series at Furman University in Greenville, SC.
Mar 2018 - J Twiss presented Post-transcriptional Mechanisms Impacting Brain Development at the Human Genetics Symposium held at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC.
Mar 2018 - Work from PL Sahoo, A Kalinski, C Gomes, and J Twiss published in Science (Locally Translated mTOR Controls Axonal Local Translation in Nerve Injury) was editorially featured by A Riccio, RNA targeting and translation in axons, Science 359, 1331-1332.
Mar 2018 – J Twiss presented Targeting axonal mRNA storage to accelerate axon regeneration in the Sagol School of Neuroscience Seminars Program at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Mar 2018 – J Twiss presented Targeting axonal mRNA storage to accelerate axon regeneration in the Molecular Neuroscience Seminar Series at The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovat, Israel.
Feb 2018 - J Twiss presented Post-transcriptional regulation of neuronal gene expression – development, disease, and injury responses to the Department of Biology Seminar, Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC.
Nov 2017 – J Twiss presented Axonal protein synthesis as a target for neural repair at the 17th International Symposium on Neural Regeneration held in Pacific Grove, CA.
Nov 2017 - S Lizarraga presented Understanding the pathogenesis of Warburg microsyndrome using stem cell models at the Family conference on Warburg Microsyndrome in Orlando, FL
Oct 2017 - S Lizarraga presented Studies on the effect of IL-17A in human neuronal development at the South East IdEA conference held at the Univ. West Virginia in Morgantown, WV.
Oct 2017 - S Davis’s publication in Endocrinology (Canonical WNT signaling regulates the pituitary organizer and pituitary gland formation) was editorially featured in an article by Camper et al., Hypothalamic β-Catenin Is Essential for FGF8-Mediated Anterior Pituitary Growth: Links to Human Disease, Endocrinology 158, 3322-3324.
Oct 2017 - S Lizarraga presented Modeling Neurodevelopmental disorders using stem cell technology at the South Carolina Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Symposium held at the USC Alumni Center, Columbia, SC.
Oct 2017 - F Poulain presented, From neuron to circuit: studying neurodevelopment in zebrafish at the South Carolina Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Symposium held at the USC Alumni Center, Columbia, SC.
Sept 2017 - J Twiss presented Translational control of axonal mRNAs can accelerate regeneration in the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair Seminar Series at Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
Sept 2017 – J Twiss presented Axonal protein synthesis as a target for neural repair in the Center for Neural Repair and Rehabilitation Seminar Series at Shriners Hospitals for Children Research Center, Temple University Medical School, Philadelphia, PA.
July 2017 – S Lizarraga presented Modeling Neurodevelopmental disorders using stem cell technology at the CAW Mini-Symposium held at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, MA.
Aug 2017 J Twiss presented Intra-axonal translation as a target to increase regeneration at the International Spinal Research Trust Meeting in London, UK.
June 2017 – F Poulain was awarded a $50,000 grant from CCAD for Molecular and cellular mechanisms of amyloid-b internalization and propagation in vivo.
June 2017 – D Smith was awarded an Administrative Supplement to National Institutes of Health grant R01-NS056314, Elucidating the role of the lissencephaly protein Lis1 in dynein-based transport, for $35,318.
June 2017 – J Twiss presented Signaling to stress granules in axon regeneration at the Gordon Research Conference on Neurotrophic Factors in Newport, RI.
June 2017 – S Lizarraga presented Stem cell studies in disorders of neuronal development at Brown University’s Neurosciences Institute Stem Cell Symposium in Providence, RI.
April 2017 – Austin Lewis (Twiss lab) received the Beyond the Classroom Research Award from the USC Honors College for his research in the Center.
Mar 2017 – F Poulain presented Molecular and cellular mechanisms of amyloid-b internalization and propagation in vivo at the Charleston Conference on Alzheimer’s disease (CCAD), Charleston, SC.
Mar 2017 – J Twiss presented Post-transcriptional regulation in neural development and regeneration at the Frontiers in Neuroscience Meeting in Charleston, SC.
Mar 2017 – Pankaj Ghate (Lizarraga Lab) was awarded 1st Place Prize for best poster, Identification of Rab3Gap1 interacting proteins, presented at the Frontiers in Neuroscience Meeting in Charleston, SC.
Mar 2017 – Mara Cowan (Lizarraga Lab) was selected as a Barry Goldwater Fellow, one of only 240 fellowships awarded this year across the US.
Jan 2017 – J Twiss presented Effects of the SCI Microenvironment on Intra-Axonal Signaling at the Drexel University Spinal Cord Research Center in Philadelphia, PA.
Dec 2016 – J Twiss presented Axon intrinsic mechanisms of neural repair to the Hearing Interest Group Seminar Series in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Dec 2016 – J Twiss presented Translational control of axonal mRNAs can accelerate regeneration in the Department of Cell Biology Seminar Series at Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Nov 2016 – J Twiss presented mRNA:protein Interactions for Axonal mRNA Translation – A Target for Accelerating Regeneration in the Department of Physiology Seminar Series at Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Nov 2016 – The Center acquired the Axiom Multi-Electrode Array instrument. This instrument is used to analyze neuronal function at a physiological level will be used for screening potential pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and biologic agents for neurotherapeutics.
Sept 2016 – F Poulain presented Precise destruction: how axon degeneration shapes the development of brain circuits in vivo at USC-Aiken.
Sept 2016 – J Twiss presented Local translational control of axonal mRNAs can accelerate regeneration at the 6th Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Degeneration held at Jackson Laboratories in Bar Harbor, ME.
July 2016 – F Poulain chaired Emerging technologies: Imaging session at the International Zebrafish Conference on Development and Genetics in Orlando, FL.
July 2016 – J Twiss presented Protein synthesis in axons – a new target for boosting axon regeneration at the International Neural Regeneration Symposium in Yuchuan, China.
June 2016 – S Lizarraga was received a pilot grant award from USC Center for Dietary Supplements and Inflammation, a National Institutes of Health COBRE Award (P20-GM103641), totaling $75,000 over 1 year.
May 2016 – F Poulain gave the keynote lecture Precise destruction: how axon degeneration shapes the development of neuronal circuits in vivo"at the Society for Developmental Biology Southeast Conference in St Augustine, FL
May 2016 – Mara Cowan (Lizarraga lab) was awarded a fellowship from the Irene and Eric Simon Brain Research Foundation.
Mar 2016 – J Twiss was awarded a two year administrative supplement to Modifying intrinsic growth capacity through axonal mRNA translation (National Institutes of Health award # R01-NS041596-011S1) for $164,080 to support the post-doctoral work of Dr. Terika Smith.
Nov 2015 – J Twiss was awarded a new 5 year grant, Antagonistic roles of HuD and KSRP for mRNA stability in neuronal growth (R01-NS089633) from the NIH for a total of approximately $2,250,000. This work includes collaborations with Drs. Nora Perrone-Bizzozero and Andrea Allan at the University of New Mexico.