Research in the Wollmuth lab continues to address molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying fast synaptic transmission in the nervous system, focusing specifically on those synapses that use glutamate as a neurotransmitter.  The big news over the past year was theRead more…

Erwin presented seminars in 2015 at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquette University, Dept. of Chemistry, and a talk at the workshop on “Sphingolipids in Infection and Beyond” in Würzburg, Germany.   He is Principal Investigator on a new NIH grantRead more…

Aaron Neiman spent part of the academic year on sabbatical at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.  There he worked on expanding the scope of his laboratory’s study of cell wall development in fungi by learning to work with the pathogenicRead more…

Professor Dale Deutsch received the International Cannabinoid Research Society (ICRS) Lifetime Achievement Award at a Symposium held in Nova Scotia this summer.The Career Award is given to a senior individual who has dedicated his or her career to furthering cannabinoid and endocannabinoidRead more…

Vitaly Citovsky received the F1000 Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year Award. Vitaly continues to be funded by NIH/NIGMS, NSF, USDA/NIFA, US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD), and US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). Vitaly joined the Editorial BoardRead more…

Since the last newsletter, Professor Nancy Hollingsworth has presented seminars at Amherst College in Massachusetts, in the SBU/CSHL/BNL Evolutionary Functional Genomics Seminar Series, and at the Donnelly Center at the University of Toronto. She was an invited speaker for a scientificRead more…

Evolutionary developmental biologist David Q. Matus, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Department at Stony Brook University in New York. He is interested in cellular invasion, a behavior observed in some normal cells during developmentRead more…