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E.g., Sunday, February 28, 2021

Terry Jones (Nicolelis lab) receives a "Meritorious Service Award" in the 2013 Duke Presidential Awards

April 18, 2013

Vanessa Punal wins a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

March 31, 2013

Paper published on Combining Optogenetics with Bioluminescence

March 27, 2013
“Light-Emitting Channelrhodopsins for Combined Optogenetic and Chemical-Genetic Control of Neurons” Ken Berglund , Elisabeth Birkner, George J. Augustine, & Ute Hochgeschwender. PLoS ONE , 2013.

Two Neurobiology Training Faculty awarded "Chancellor's Discovery Grants"

March 27, 2013
Hiroaki Matsunami, “Molecular mechanisms of acute oxygen sensing” Geoffrey Pitt, “Increase in bone mass by voltage-gated Ca2+ channels: potential therapy for osteoporosis”

Nathan Hedrick awarded the Grass Fellowship for an independent research project at the MBL at Woods Hole in Summer of 2013

March 13, 2013

Paper published in Scientific reports

February 28, 2013
" A brain-to-brain interface for real-time sharing of sensorimotor information " Miguel Pais-Vieira, Mikhail Lebedev, Carolina Kunicki, Jing Wang & Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, see publicity from NY Times , Washington Post

Paper published in Nature Communications

February 12, 2013
" Perceiving invisible light through a somatosensory cortical prosthesis " Eric E. Thomson, Rafael Carra, & Miguel A.L. Nicolelis. Nature Communications, 2013.

Kafui Dzirasa awarded a 2013 Janssen / IMHRO Rising Star Translational Research Award

February 1, 2013
Kafui Dzirasa awarded a 2013 Janssen / IMHRO Rising Star Translational Research Award "Closed Loop...

Paper published in Neuron

January 23, 2013
"New Modules Are Added to Vibrissal Premotor Circuitry with the Emergence of Exploratory Whisking", by Jun Takatoh, Anders Nelson, Xiang Zhou, M. McLean Bolton, Michael D. Ehlers, Benjamin R. Arenkiel, Richard Mooney, Fan Wang, Neuron, Jan 23, 2013 . See also the press release from Duke .

Paper in PNAS from Wolfgang Liedtke's laboratory

January 16, 2013
" Bisphenol A delays the perinatal chloride shift in cortical neurons by epigenetic effects on the Kcc2 promoter ", see publicity from CBS , Time

Kevin Franks and Jeremy Kay recognized as Whitehead Scholars at Duke

January 13, 2013

Greg Field named Whitehead Scholar at Duke

January 7, 2013

Paper published in Nature Neuroscience

December 23, 2012
"Neuronal reference frames for social decisions in primate frontal cortex" by Steve W C Chang, Jean-François Gariépy & Michael L Platt, Nature Neuroscience, 2013

Wolfgang Liedtke wins 2012 Harrington Discovery Award

December 7, 2012
Wolfgang Liedtke wins 2012 Harrington Discovery Award . See also the press release from Duke .

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