Eroglu and Pearson Selected as Distinguished Nominees for the 2019 Hammes Award
Congratulations to both Cagla Eroglu and John Pearson who were selected by a group of graduate students as distinguished nominees for the 2019 Gordon G. Hammes Faculty Teaching Award.
Dzirasa Receives Prestigious AAAS Fellowship
A Duke scientist is one of ten researchers selected for a prestigious fellowship by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Research Roundup: Jan. 2019
Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by Duke Neurobiology in January 2019:
Neural Cell Biology:
Newly Recruited Faculty Bring Expertise in Key Research Areas
Thanks to a successful first year of Translating Duke Health (TDH), twelve new faces have popped up around the School of Medicine’s labs, clinics and meeting rooms, including three faculty fro
Soderling Lab Discovers a Novel Protein Important for Newly Forming Excitatory Synapses
Excitatory synapse formation during development involves the complex orchestration of both structural and functional alterations at the postsynapse.
Branching Out Beyond the Ivory Tower: Using Outreach to Enhance Your Professional Development
Think graduate school is just about research and classroom teaching?
Duke study suggests new model for how humans learn
Humans learn motor skills through a complicated process of trial and error—or so many researchers thought.
New Bass Connections project focuses on Alzheimer’s disease
Duke's Bass Connections selected Ornit Chiba-Falek, Boris Kantor, and Misha Angrist's project under the Brain & Society theme. Their project, Gene Therapy in Alzheimer’s Dise
Graduate School awards Professional Development Grant to Neurobiology
David Gallegos has successfully competed for a Professional Development Grant from the Graduate School, which will be used to run the ‘Neuroscience Careers Lunch’ seminar series throughout the next
