Lab News

May 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Chun Kim - winner of the Council of Graduate School Programs Biomedical Sciences Dissertation of the Year Award for his dissertation and research entitled “Estrogen regulation of mir-9-5p and mir-9-3p in the aging female brain”.

May 2020 Check out our latest publication in eNeuro!

July 9, 2018

We welcome a new post-doc into the lab! Dr Jennifer Chang recently completed her PhD at Rosalind Franklin University and published her work in a Molecular Therapy article titled Targeting Amyloid-β Precursor Protein, APP, Splicing with Antisense Oligonucleotides Reduces Toxic Amyloid-β Production. Check out the article, and welcome to the team Jennifer!

June 20, 2018

Our recent study, part of the dissertation work of Dr Andie Asimes, was just published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society, and Endocrine News published a nice review of the work! Check out the news story here, and for the full publication, visit the JES website.

May 22, 2018

Congratulations to Dr Toni Pak who has been named the James R. DePauw Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology! See the official announcement from Dr Steven Goldstein here.

Mar 29, 2018

Last week we attended the Chicago Society for Neuroscience annual meeting and had a blast! Andie Asimes presented her recently defended dissertation work as part of the graduate student symposium and won SECOND PLACE!