Research Grant Boosts Drive to Transform Treatment Landscape for Rare Neurological Disorders By Mark Michaud Aug. 28, 2023 New funding will extend URMC's key role in national research network just a new gene therapies or neuromuscular and other disorders are emerging.
People Faculty Q&A: Lars A. Ross, PhD By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 24, 2023 Lars A. Ross, PhD, is a research assistant professor of Imaging Sciences and Neuroscience at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He came to University of Rochester Medical Center in late ...
Research Protecting the vulnerable, informing the future By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 24, 2023 This is not another story about COVID. This is a story about how a group of scientists—including a neuroscientist, virologist, and nephrologist—and school leadership rolled up their sleeves, stepped ...
Research Iron & the brain: Where and when neurodevelopmental disabilities may begin during pregnancy By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Mar. 6, 2023 The cells that make up the human brain begin developing long before the physical shape of the brain has formed. This early organizing of a network of cells plays a major role in brain health ...
Research Wiggles & wings: The model systems transforming neuroscience By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jan. 27, 2023 Genetic model organisms are truly invaluable to the field of neuroscience. Many of the discoveries made using C. elegans and Drosophila apply throughout the animal kingdom, and this research has led ...
Research A serendipitous discovery and the choreographed dance of fragile X research By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 18, 2022 Fragile X syndrome is the most common known single-gene cause of inherited IDDs, including autism. Scientists know the misstep in this syndrome is in the gene responsible for making a protein ...
Education Student Spotlight: MaKenna Cealie By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 18, 2022 MaKenna Cealie is a fourth year in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (SMD). The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ...
People Faculty Q&A: Emily Knight By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 17, 2022 Emily Knight, M.D., Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Neuroscience and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Her research aims to understand neural mechanisms of sensory ...
Research The prose of Dr. Seuss shines a light on how the brain processes speech By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Sep. 21, 2022 Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience have expanded the understanding of how the brain is engaged during complex audiovisual speech perception.
Research Many minds, many methods, one brain By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 21, 2022 The hum of a treadmill in the distance greets you stepping off the elevator into the Frederick J. and Marion A. Schindler Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory at the University of Rochester. The ...