Research News
Caitlin Paisley Awarded Holland-Trice Graduate Student Fellowship Award
November 14, 2019
Congratulations to Caitlin Paisley who was selected to receive the Holland-Trice Graduate Student...
Research Roundup: October 2019
November 5, 2019
Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by Duke Neurobiology in October 2019:...
Parkinson's Disease: The Stars in Our Brains
October 30, 2019
More than 10 million people worldwide—about 1 percent of people over age 60—live with Parkinson’s...
Prigge wins Research Week's Basic Sciences Research Poster Session
October 24, 2019
Cameron Prigge presented her research in the Basic Sciences Research poster session of the School...
Dzirasa Receives Young Investigator Award
October 21, 2019
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, with this year’s Young...
Research Roundup: August and September 2019
October 4, 2019
Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by Duke Neurobiology in August and...
Researchers Named NIH "New Innovators"
October 4, 2019
School of Medicine researchers Diego Bohórquez Ph.D. and Opeyemi Olabisi M.D., Ph.D. have been...
Duke Teams Recieve NIH Funding to Address Chronic Pain
September 27, 2019
Fan Wang, together with William Maixner and Ru-Rong Ji, will lead a research project to identify...
Yang lab Identifies Molecule that Limits Sensitivity of Drosophila Taste Neurons
September 23, 2019
When making feeding decisions for themselves or their progenies, animals must accurately decode...
Dzirasa Named 2019 Few-Glasson Inductee
September 12, 2019
Congratulations to Kafui Dzirasa who was announced as a 2019 inductee to the Few-Glasson Alumni...
Jake Heffley and Miaomiao Jin awarded Bill Hall Prize for Excellence in Graduate Research
September 6, 2019
On Friday, September 6th, Duke Neurobiology awarded the Bill Hall Prize for Excellence in Graduate...
Schmehl Receives Scholarship from BPW/Triangle
September 3, 2019
Congratulations to Meredith Schmehl who received a Business and Professional Women of the Triangle...
Plug-and-Play Protein Modification Using Homology-Independent Universal Genome Engineering
September 3, 2019
A new Soderling Lab paper reports a simplified approach for flexibly tagging endogenous proteins in...
Discrete Evaluative and Premotor Circuits Enable Vocal Learning in Songbirds
September 3, 2019
The Mooney lab combined behavioral and optogenetic methods to identify two afferents to the ventral...
Welcome New Neurobiology Students!
August 27, 2019
A hearty welcome to the 12 new first-year Ph.D. students in Neurobiology: Trevor Alston Whit Jacobs...