This month’s featured researcher is Karine Fenelon. Karine is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology. Read a wonderful profile about her life’s journey in the Stories of Women in Neuroscience. Her lab investigates the neural circuitry that underlies sensory gating. They recented publised a paper in the journal Brain Research titled, “Deciphering the role of brainstem glycinergic neurons during startle and prepulse inhibition“. This paper, which was the PhD dissertation work of NSB student, Wanyun Huang, shows the contribution of glutamatergic and glycinergic neurons to acoustic startle responses. Karine will be one the featured speakers in the Interdisciplinary Neurosciences Conference on May 30th.
Here’s what else is new for ‘ ”University of Massachusetts” AND Amherst AND neuroscience’ in PubMed. These publications appeared online in April. They are just a fraction of the neuroscience research that occurs on campus. You can click on the PubMed ID to find the publication.
1: Syropoulos S, Law KF, Mah A, Young L. Intergenerational concern relates to constructive coping and emotional reactions to climate change via increased legacy concerns and environmental cognitive alternatives. BMC Psychol. 2024 Apr 2;12(1):182. doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-01690-0. PMID: 38566114; PMCID: PMC10986099.
2: Dougan CE, Roberts BL, Crosby AJ, Karatsoreos I, Peyton SR. Acute and Chronic Neural and Glial Response to Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Hippocampus. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Apr 2:2024.04.01.587620. doi: 10.1101/2024.04.01.587620. PMID: 38617329; PMCID: PMC11014627.
3: Winsor AM, Remage-Healey L, Hoy RR, Jakob EM. Visual attention and processing in jumping spiders. Trends Neurosci. 2024 Jan;47(1):6-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2023.09.002. Epub 2023 Oct 3. PMID: 37798203.
4: Zintel TM, Pizzollo J, Claypool CG, Babbitt CC. Astrocytes Drive Divergent Metabolic Gene Expression in Humans and Chimpanzees. Genome Biol Evol. 2024 Jan 5;16(1):evad239. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evad239. PMID: 38159045; PMCID: PMC10829071.
5. Zhang R, Wang Z, Wu T, Cai Y, Tao L, Xiao ZC, Li Y. Learning spiking neuronal networks with artificial neural networks: neural oscillations. J Math Biol. 2024 Apr 17;88(6):65. doi: 10.1007/s00285-024-02081-0. PMID: 38630136.
6. Pavon N, Diep K, Yang F, Sebastian R, Martinez-Martin B, Ranjan R, Sun Y, Pak C. Patterning ganglionic eminences in developing human brain organoids using a morphogen-gradient-inducing device. Cell Rep Methods. 2024 Jan 22;4(1):100689. doi: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100689. Epub 2024 Jan 15. PMID: 38228151; PMCID: PMC10831957.
7. Huang W, Cano JC, Fénelon K. Deciphering the role of brainstem glycinergic neurons during startle and prepulse inhibition. Brain Res. 2024 Apr 13;1836:148938. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2024.148938. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38615924.
8. Luebbers A, Gonzalez-Hernandez AJ, Zhou M, Eyles SJ, Levitz J, Garcia-Marcos M. Dissecting the molecular basis for the modulation of neurotransmitter GPCR signaling by GINIP. Structure. 2024 Jan 4;32(1):47-59.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2023.10.010. Epub 2023 Nov 20. PMID: 37989308; PMCID: PMC10872408.