Research News
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...
Urann Chan awarded NIH F31 Fellowship
August 15, 2019
Congratulations to Urann Chan on his successful F31 application “The Role of the Lysine-Specific...
A Gut Reaction: Why We Crave Sugar
August 15, 2019
Watch Diego V. Bohórquez tells us why we want more sugar when we've already eaten some. Bohórquez...
Spotlight on Lindsey Glickfeld
August 5, 2019
Lindsey Glickfeld is featured on Stories of WiN, a project highlighting the stories and careers of...
Research Roundup: July 2019
August 5, 2019
Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by Duke Neurobiology in July 2019: Motor...
Elise Adamson named HHMI Gilliam Graduate Fellow
August 1, 2019
Congratulations to Elise Adamson of the Dzirasa Lab on being awarded a Gilliam Fellowship from the...