UF Neuroscience Department

Neuroscience News

Congratulations to Kryslaine Lopes who has published her first first-author manuscript! Kryslaine joined the Neuroscience IDP graduate program in 2004 and is mentored by Dr. Wolfgang Streit. Her paper is titled "Microglial dystrophy in the aged and alzheimer's disease brain is associated with ferritin immunoreactivity" was accepted March 10th and will be published in Glia. It is available online PMID: 18442088.

Congratulations to Shelby Suckow who has published her first first-author manuscript! Shelby joined the Neuroscience IDP graduate program in 2005 and is mentored by Dr. Robert Caudle. Her paper is titled "Identification and immunohistochemical characterization of colospinal afferent neurons in the rat"was accepted February 14th and will be published in Neuroscience. It is available online PMID: 18424003.

Congratulations to our 2008 Exemplary Teacher Award Winners!
Drs. Dena Howland, Ron Mandel, Lucia Notterpek, Lou Ritz, Sue Semple-Rowland and Jake Streit have each received Exemplary Teaching Awards from the College of Medicine for 2008. In addition, the Medical Neurosciences Course under the direction of Dr. Lou Ritz has, for the second year in a row, won the College of Medicine Golden Apple Award, an award that is given to the Best Science Course offered each year!

Congratulations to Celeste Karch who has published her first first-author manuscript! Celeste joined the Neuroscience IDP graduate program in 2005 and is mentored by Dr. David Borchelt. Her paper is titled "A Limited Role for Disulfide Cross-linking in the Aggregation of Mutant SOD1 Linked to Familial Amyotrophic
Lateral Sclerosis" and appeared in the Journal of Biological Chemistry papers in press March 3rd. It will appear in volume 283.

Congratulations to Firas Kobiassy, PhD, who was recently named has been named UF's Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award recipient for 2008! Firas received his doctoral degree in Neuroscience in the Spring of 2007 (mentor: Kevin Wang, Ph.D., Psychiatry). Sigma Xi is the honor society of research scientists and engineers. It is an international, multidisciplinary society whose programs and activities promote the health of the scientific enterprise, reward excellence in scientific research and encourage a sense of companionship and cooperation among scientists in all fields. More than 200 members have won the Nobel Prize.

Congratulations to Wilde Orisme who was recently selected to participate in the 2008 St. Jude National Graduate Student Symposium!
Wilde is one of 43 graduate students selected out of 700 applicants to participate in this annual research event that will held this year at St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, TN, from March 25-29th. To showcase their research, all participants present a poster at the beginning of the week and then an oral presentation later in the week. Please join me in recognizing Wilde for this important achievement.

Congratulations to Stephanie Jefferson - the winner of the 2008 Neuroscience IDP Medical Guild Competition!
Selection of the winner this year's competition was very difficult as all seven participants gave excellent presentations. The faculty who served as judges for this year's competition wish to thank each student for taking time to participate in this very important annual event. Please join me in supporting Stephanie on April 23rd 8-10:30 am at the COM 2008 Medical Guild Research Competition (HPNP auditorium).

Congratulations to the Neuroscience IDP Program 2008 McKnight Brain Institute Graduate Student Investigators Research Grant Awardees!

GRACE HA, Psychiatry, College of Medicine Mentor: John Petitto, Ph.D., Psychiatry

STEPHANIE JEFFERSON, Neuroscience, College of Medicine Mentor: Dena Howland, Ph.D., Neuroscience

AARON RISING, Neuroscience, College of Medicine Mentor: Ronald Mandel, Ph.D., Neuroscience

JONATHAN VERRIER, Neuroscience, College of Medicine Mentor: Lucia Notterpek, Ph.D., Neuroscience

Upcoming Events

NEURO NOONS 2008!
FROM GENES TO BRAIN TO NERVE TO MUSCLE TO BEHAVIOR AND BACK
June 12 - August 7
Event will be held Thursdays, 12-1:15pm in Room G-114 HPNP
Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in presenting a talk should email Lauri Bialosky or call 273-6113.

Recent Publications

Analysis of nitric oxide-cyclic guanosine monophosphate signaling during metamorphosis of the nudibranch Phestilla sibogae Bergh (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Bishop CD, Pires A, Norby SW, Boudko D, Moroz LL, Hadfield MG. Evol Dev. 2008 May-Jun;10(3):288-99.
Microglial dystrophy in the aged and alzheimer's disease brain is associated with ferritin immunoreactivity. Lopes KO, Sparks DL, Streit WJ. Glia. 2008 Apr 28;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18442088
Identification and immunohistochemical characterization of colospinal afferent neurons in the rat. Suckow SK, Caudle RM. Neuroscience. 2008 Mar 4 [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18424003
Production of Neurospheres from CNS Tissue. Marshall GP, Ross HH, Suslov O, Zheng T, Steindler DA, Laywell ED. Methods Mol Biol. 2008;438:135-150.
Mapping a multidimensional emotion in response to television commercials. Morris JD, Klahr NJ, Shen F, Villegas J, Wright P, He G, Liu Y. Hum Brain Mapp. 2008 Feb 19; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18286463
Locomotor Training Restores Walking in a Nonambulatory Child With Chronic, Severe, Incomplete Cervical Spinal Cord Injury. Behrman AL, Nair PM, Bowden MG, Dauser RC, Herget BR, Martin JB, Phadke CP, Reier PJ, Senesac CR, Thompson FJ, Howland DR. Phys Ther. 2008 Mar 6;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18326054
Nucleic Acid Beacons for Long-Term Real-Time Intracellular Monitoring. Wu Y, Yang CJ, Moroz LL, Tan W. Anal Chem. 2008 Mar 6;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18321137
Modest spontaneous recovery of ventilation following chronic high cervical hemisection in rats. Fuller DD, Doperalski NJ, Dougherty BJ, Sandhu MS, Bolser DC, Reier PJ. Exp Neurol. 2008 Feb 1;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18308305
Increased leptin expression selectively in the hypothalamus suppresses inflammatory markers CRP and IL-6 in leptin-deficient diabetic obese mice. Dube MG, Torto R, Kalra SP. Peptides. 2008 Jan 17;29(4):593-598. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18325632
Detection of phosphorylated NF-H in the cerebrospinal fluid and blood of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients. Lewis SB, Wolper RA, Miralia L, Yang C, Shaw G. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2008 Mar 5;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18319731
Molluscan mobile elements similar to the vertebrate Recombination-Activating Genes. Panchin Y, Moroz LL. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2008 Feb 27;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18313399
Sustained striatal ciliary neurotrophic factor expression negatively affects behavior and gene expression in normal and R6/1 mice. Denovan-Wright EM, Attis M, Rodriguez-Lebron E, Mandel RJ. J Neurosci Res. 2008 Feb 21;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18293418
Identification of CKAP4/p63 as a major substrate of the palmitoyl acyl transferase DHHC2, a putative tumor suppressor, using a novel proteomic method. Zhang J, Planey SL, Ceballos C, Stevens SM Jr, Keay SK, Zacharias DA. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2008 Feb 22;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18296695
A longitudinal study of skeletal muscle following spinal cord injury and locomotor training. Liu M, Bose P, Walter GA, Thompson FJ, Vandenborne K. Spinal Cord. 2008 Feb 19;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18283294
Principles of experience-dependent neural plasticity: implications for rehabilitation after brain damage. Kleim JA, Jones TA. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2008 Feb;51(1):S225-39.
The Kinetic Mechanism of Manganese-Containing Superoxide Dismutase from Deinococcus radiodurans: A Specialized Enzyme for the Elimination of High Superoxide Concentrations. Abreu IA, Hearn A, An H, Nick HS, Silverman DN, Cabelli DE. Biochemistry. 2008 Feb 2;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18247479
Genome-wide analysis of aging and learning-related genes in the hippocampal dentate gyrus. Burger C, Lopez MC, Baker HV, Mandel RJ, Muzyczka N. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2008 Jan 28;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18234529
Metabolic regulation of manganese superoxide dismutase expression via essential amino acid deprivation. Aiken KJ, Bickford JS, Kilberg MS, Nick HS. J Biol Chem. 2008 Jan 10;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18187411
The phosphorylation state of Ser-129 in human {alpha}-synuclein determines neurodegeneration in a rat model of Parkinson disease. Gorbatyuk OS, Li S, Sullivan LF, Chen W, Kondrikova G, Manfredsson FP, Mandel RJ, Muzyczka N. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Jan 4;. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18178617

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