The Shepherd lab was recently selected as a recipient of the Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award for the Chan-Zuckerberg initiative, which hopes to bring together new researchers with innovative ideas in the field of Alzheimer’s research. The Shepherd lab will receive 2.5 million over 5 years to fund work exploring new mechanisms that may help us understand or treat Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more below!
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The Shepherd lab is happy to announce the release of our newest paper in Cell, detailing a newly discovered function of Arc in intercellular RNA transfer. Huge congratulations to Drs. Elissa Pastuzyn and Cameron Day for their hard work. Link to Article>>
Our Neuron paper (paper link) describing a new GCaMP reporter mouse (a transgenic mouse that expresses a protein that can sense levels of calcium in cells) is out today! This was a great collaborative project between multiple Utah neuroscience labs. Exemplary of the close knit community here!
The closest you’ll get to taking a tour through the insides of a Neuron…very cool!
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