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HIPPOCAMPAL MEMORY

Reactivation of a fear memory trace in the rodent hippocampus represented by colocalized mCherry and cFos (yellow). Stained for mCherry fluorescent protein (red), cFos (green), and DAPI (blue). Image credit: Reed Ressler (Maren Lab)

    

MEDIUM SPINY NEURON

Cultured Fmr1 KO medium spiny neuron, transfected for acute expression of FMRP (GFP, green) and mCherry (red) fluorescent protein for dendritic spine analysis.Image credit: Jessica Huebschman (Laura Smith Lab)

    

ASTROGLIOSIS

Astrogliosis in the remyelinating corpus callosum of a chronic Cuprizone-exposed mouse. Stained for GFAP+ astrocytes (red), CNP+ myelin (green), and nuclei (blue). Image credit: Grace Samtani (Li Lab)

    

NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION

Select image from a serial set of electron micrographs showing processes of a single terminal Schwann cell encroaching on nerve-muscle contacts (yellow arrow heads) and penetrating this intact nerve terminal (black arrows) during developmental synapse elimination in the mouse model. Image credit: Ian Smith (Thompson Lab)

    

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Recent TAMIN News

  • Congratulations to current and former TAMIN trainees Yufei Huang, Himanshu Gangal, and Ziyi Li, and TAMIN faculty members Drs. Rachel J. Smith and Jun Wang, on their recent paper in Neuron, ‘Dual-engram architecture within a single striatal cell type distinctly controls alcohol relapse and extinction’
  • Congratulations to Yufei Huang, a fourth-year TAMIN student in Dr. Jun Wang’s lab, for being awarded the prestigious John P. McGovern Fellowship to support his research on alcohol abuse and addiction.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Himanshu Gangal, a former TAMIN student, in Dr. Jun Wang’s lab for his paper “Drug Reinforcement Impairs Cognitive Flexibility by Inhibiting Striatal Cholinergic Neurons” accepted by Nature Communications.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Shapiro’s lab for two recent grants from the Department of Defense to examine the immune and vascular-immune mechanisms of increased Alzheimer’s disease (AD) susceptibility after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
  • Congratulations to Dr. Cédric Geoffroy (NEXT) for his new NIH grant to investigate how age-dependent changes in astrocyte mitochondrial activity impact spinal cord injuries.

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