March News

March 29, 2024

Medical student doing a DNA activity with a family at the Neuroscience Fair
The Department of Translational Neuroscience hosted its annual Neuroscience Fair on Saturday, March 16. More than 1,200 visitors attended the event at the Grand Rapids Public Museum where our researchers and medical students demonstrated the marvels of the brain through fun, hands-on activities for the whole family.

Awards and New Papers

Centner A, Del Priore I, Chambers N, Cohen SR, Terry ML, Coyle M, Glinski J, Stoll AC, Patterson JR, Kemp CJ, Miller KM, Kubik M, Kuhn N, Luk KC, Sortwell CE, Bishop C. Deficits in basal and evoked striatal dopamine release following alpha-synuclein preformed fibril injection: An in vivo microdialysis study. Eur J Neurosci. 2024 Feb 14. doi: 10.1111/ejn.16275. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38356120.
Alhadidy MM, Kanaan NM. Biochemical approaches to assess the impact of post-translational modifications on pathogenic tau conformations using recombinant protein. Biochem Soc Trans. 2024 Feb 28;52(1):301-318. doi: 10.1042/BST20230596. PMID: 38348781; PMCID: PMC10903483.

Announcements

Dr. Jack Lipton has been appointed Associate Dean of Research Analytics starting May 2024.