News from 2014
RNA REMODELING BY AN EFFICIENT RETROVIRAL RENOVATOR [D’SOUZA LAB]
As anyone who has renovated a home knows, the process of remodeling often requires an elaborate orchestration of timing and materials. Remodeling at the molecular level is likewise…
BUILDING A CLUB SANDWICH [SANES LAB]
The aim of developmental neurobiology is to learn how the nervous system is built, and to find the developmental anomalies that are thought to underlie some brain diseases. …
IN MEMORIAM: THE GLOWING CAREER OF WOODY HASTINGS
"Dear friends and colleagues, It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that Woody Hastings passed away. Woody's health had been declining over the past…
PARTNERS FOR LIFE [SANES LAB]
Neurons form precise relationships with particular synaptic partners and these relationships give rise to the wiring diagram that enables cognitive function. Like other partnerships, neural connections need to…
INPUTOME OF DOPAMINE AND SEROTONIN NEURONS [UCHIDA LAB]
(l to r) Sachie K. Ogawa, Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida, and Nao Uchida When I told my niece in medical school that I am studying dopamine, she looked surprised, asking,…
DETECTION OF TARGET ODORS FROM MIXTURES [MURTHY LAB]
Natural environments are rich with sensory stimuli. To make sense of the sensory clutter, animals must segregate objects of interest from ever varying backgrounds. Our visual system is…
COUPLING TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION IN EUKARYOTES [O’SHEA LAB]
Erin O'Shea (l) and Brian Zid The central dogma of molecular biology proposes that information flows from DNA to RNA through the process of transcription and from RNA…
