Congrats to Nord Lab undergraduate Anh Nguyen on being awarded the UC Davis Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship! Anh is working on applying dCas9 to mediate in vitro gene expression in an epilepsy model.
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New publication in Neuron on the function of Pbx1. Congrats to Olga Golonzhka and John Rubenstein. We were happy to contribute to the computational analysis. Read more: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26671461
See Alex Nord talk at the mini-symposium on Genomic Views of Transcriptional Enhancers: Essential Determinants of Cellular Identity and Activity-Dependent Responses in Neurons.
Alex will be teaching BIS101 with JoAnne Engebrecht Fall Quarter 2015. Get in on the fun: https://registrar.ucdavis.edu/courses/search/index.cfm
Excellent group of speakers lined up for the Fall IGG seminar series. Hope to see you there! Full disclosure, Alex organized, so he thinks the list is especially awesome.
When: Mondays, 4pm
Where: LSA 1022
IGG homepage: http://igg.ucdavis.edu/
New review on functional enhancer testing in mouse by Alex Nord in Genomics.
PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26079655.
Journal: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0888754315300069
We hit our first anniversary this month. Highlights include putting together a great research team, finally moving in to our (almost complete) renovated lab space at the Center for Neuroscience this summer, and receiving initial awards and funding for students (Linda Su-Feher, selected for a fellowship) and projects in the lab, and three review articles. One year in, there is finally a working phone in Alex’s office.
Andrea was an undergraduate at UC Davis before her Masters in Los Angeles and Ph.D. at Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She will be working on projects involving mouse models of autism and epilepsy. Her Ph.D. was with Suzanne Zukin working on models of gene regulation in Fragile X.
Leslie Matheu, Anh Nguyen, and Yeni Belachew all worked in the lab this summer though research experience programs for UC Davis undergrads (http://urc.ucdavis.edu/programs/camp.html and http://www.busp.ucdavis.edu/). We thank them for their contributions to our research and look forward to having them continue with the lab long-term.
Our application for work studying gene regulation and epigenetics in an environmental mouse model of schizophrenia was selected for a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavior Foundation (https://bbrfoundation.org/). We are interested in how maternal immune challenge is related to schizophrenia in offspring, and will be using functional genomics to test the hypothesis that the link is via epigenetic changes in the developing brain.