Author: Jessica

It’s a busy time in the MacDonald lab – a big welcome to postdoctoral fellow Ashis Sinha and our two new rotating graduate students, CJ Arnell and Jiali He.

Our paper “Atypical neocortical development in the Cited2 conditional knockout leads to behavioral deficits associated with neurodevelopmental disorders” is now in print at Neuroscience. Congrats to Niko on this great achievement! Check it out here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cN2F15hTtksbC

A big welcome to Matt Smith, and new graduate student doing a rotation in our lab this semester. Exciting science to follow!

We have a new paper posted on BioRxiv. Congrats on this beautiful work, Niko!

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.02.279646v1

Our paper “Vitamin D supplementation rescues aberrant NF-κB pathway activation and partially ameliorates Rett syndrome phenotypes in Mecp2 mutant mice” is now in press at eNeuro. You can check out the preprint here:

https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2020/05/11/ENEURO.0167-20.2020

Our review article on “Sex differences in Mecp2-mutant Rett syndrome model mice and the impact of cellular mosaicism in phenotype development” has now been published in Brain Research as part of a Special Issue on Sex Differences in the Mammalian Brain. You can check it out here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1aMbd1aPVUVhf

 

May gave a fantastic talk last week at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Chicago on her project “Vitamin D supplementation rescues aberrant NF-kB pathway activation and partially ameliorates Rett syndrome cortical phenotypes in Mecp2 mutant mice”.

Welcome to the newest member of our team, Research Associate Dr. Ketan Marballi.

Congratulations to Niko who aced his qualification exams, and is now officially a PhD candidate!

Congratulations are in in order for May Ribeiro who was recently awarded a Research Excellence Doctoral Fellowship from Syracuse University!