Congrats May!

Congratulations to Dr. Mayara Ribeiro who absolutely rocked her thesis defense! We are so proud of the first PhD graduate of the MacDonald lab!

New Preprint!

Our newest study is now posted on bioRxiv! Congrats on this fantastic work go to the soon to defend May! We identified over 200 genes whose dysregulated expression in the Mecp2 heterozygous cortex is rescued by dietary vitamin D and we found that motor and anxiety-like phenotypes in these Rett syndrome model mice are modulated by vitamin D. Check it out here:

https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2021.06.30.450587v1