Ru-Rong Ji-led team develops new painkiller that could offer relief without the addictive side effects of opioids
A team led by Neurobiology training faculty member Ru-Rong Ji has developed a new experimental drug called SBI-810 that could offer powerful pain relief without the addictive side
Sindoni develops tool to probe how force-gated ion channels respond to membrane tension
Fifth-year graduate student Michael Sindoni (Grandl Lab) has a new first-author article out in Biophysical Journal titled, “A closed-loop system fo
Huanghe Yang Receives Early Career Mentoring Award
Neurobiology training faculty member Huanghe Yang is one of this year's recipients of an Early Career Mentoring Award in Basic Science by the School of Medicine.
Kaitlyn Fouke has new first-author article out in Current Biology
A new comparative study led by fourth-year graduate student Kaitlyn Fouke (Naumann Lab) shows how two teleost fish species, zebrafish and the miniature microglass fish Danionella
Lisberger, Herzfeld and team develop AI tool to decipher the secret of cerebellar circuits
The cerebellum is responsible for making accurate movements and so understanding how it works is crucial to treating movement disorders such as tremor, loss of balance, and speech
Bilbo Named to American Association for the Advancement of Science
Neurobiology training faculty member Staci Bilbo, also the Haley Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, is one of three Duke SoM faculty elected to the American Associat
Mooney/Qi/Pearson study shows how baby birds are internally motivated to master their songs
Neurobiology's Richard Mooney and his team's latest research, published in Nature, reveals how both dopamine and acetylcholine signals are critical to helping baby birds
New article in Nature from Mooney and Pearson Labs
Dopamine has long been linked to learning from reward.