Angus Deaton, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2015, has written a fascinating essay about his changing views on economics. I thought the following quote has great relevance to ecology: "The credibility revolution in econometrics was an understandable reaction to the identification of causal mechanisms by assertion, often controversial and Read more about On empiricism and falsification
Congratulations to INS Grad Student Kevin Zhou (Bittner Lab) for receiving a fellowship from the Lone Star Paralysis Foundation! This fellowship will support Kevin's research on peripheral nerve repair by providing funds for his education and research expensis that traditional NIH undergraduate fellowships may not provide.
Josue Lopez and colleagues from the Lee Lab published a reserach article in The Journal of Neuroscience entitled "Caldendrin Is a Repressor of PIEZO2 Channels and Touch Sensation in Mice". This study investigated the role of the calmodulin-like Ca2+ sensor, caldendrin, in the regulation of mechanically activated ion channels and their roles in touch sensation.
Congratulations to INS graduate student Kanako Matsumura (Dobbs Lab) on being awarded an NRSA from NIDA for her research proposal entiteld "Recruitment of striatal enkephalin by cocaine as a substrate for striatopallidal circuit adaptations and cocaine seeking"!
Congratulations to Dr. Jon Pierce on being award a CNS Spark Grant to support his research proposal entitled "Predicting Genes that Cause Phenotypes as Extra Copies".
The CNS Spark Grants program supports new ideas that have the potential to elevate or transform a research program but that are too early-stage in development to be appropriate for external funding opportunities. The program encourages high-risk/high-reward projects. Applicants may propose to develop new methods or to gather preliminary data for new directions in research. Proposals for exploratory,
INIA-N researchers gathered in Austin, TX on Jan 22-23, for the annual meeting. Members of INIA labs from across the country and the world attended in person and remotely to discuss results, progress and future directions and goals of the consortium.
The Colgin Lab published a research article entiteld, "Ank3 mouse model of epilepsy-bipolar disorder comorbidity" in Nature Translational Psychiatry. The research reveals the potential comorbid role the gene ankyrn 3 (ANK3) may play in bipolar disorder and epilepsy. ANK3 is a leading bipolar disorder (BD) candidate gene and has also been shown to be invovled in
