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This week, Mike Rieger successfully defended his thesis! Mike was joined at graduation by Kristina Sakers and Rebecca Ouwenga, who will also be defending in the coming weeks. Mike was awarded his PhD for his work on mouse vocalization behavior and the CELF family of RNA-binding proteins. He will soon be moving out to San […]

Congratulations to both Kayla and GR1-to-be, Mara, who were both awarded NSF Graduate Fellowships! Kayla’s proposal aims to look at how the genes deleted in Williams Syndrome (more on WS below) may in turn regulate oxytocin gene expression. One mechanism thought to underlie the hypersocial behavior seen in Williams is an excess of oxytocin, which […]

As Allie prepares to start her MD/PhD training (!), we have brought on a new programmer, Yating! She has a Master’s in Bioinformatics and previously worked in Sally Elgin’s lab on the Danforth campus here at Wash U. Projects she’s been involved in previously include G-OnRamp, a bioinformatics-visualization pipeline intended for undergraduate education in modern […]

On May 16th, Mike R will be defending his thesis on the Celf family of RNA binding proteins. From there, he’s heading to the Salk Institute in San Diego to do his post-doctoral work in Sreekanth Chalasani’s lab. Dr. Chalasani’s group studies neurobiology, especially of behavior and behavioral pharmacology, in the worm C. elegans. Mike […]

The lab, in collaboration with John Cirrito (Neurology) and Carla Yuede (Neurology), was recently awarded a Hope Center Pilot Project award to study the ‘glymphatic’ system and Aß clearance. Darshan, here in the Dougherty lab, discovered a novel form of one of the ubiquitious water channels in the body, aquaporin 4. This novel form appears […]