| January 2018 | Qili Yu, PhD, joined the Pang Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow in January 2018. |
| January 2018 | Matthew Scarnati, PhD, joined the Pang Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow in January 2018. |
| November 2017 | Ji Liu, PhD published a paper titled, “Enhanced AMPA receptor trafficking mediates the anorexigenic effect of endogenous glucagon-like peptide-1 in the paraventricular hypothalamus.” The paper was featured by The Journal Neuron. |
| October 2017 | JingJing Liu, PhD was invited to give a talk at the 12th Biennial Conference of the Chinese Neuroscience Society in Tianjing in October, 2017. The speaker panel included scientists from Harvard, Yale, Switzerland and China. Dr. Liu shared her recent results on “Decoding the synaptic mechanism of melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) in the lateral septum neurocircuitry” with the audience. |
| October 2017 | JingJing Liu, PhD published a paper titled, “Pre-synaptic regulation of leptin in a defined lateral hypothalamus–ventral tegmental area neurocircuitry depends on energy state” in The Journal of Neuroscience. The paper provided important synaptic mechanisms describing how the hormone Leptin controls feeding and how dysfunction in its signaling leads to obesity. |
| October 2017 | Pang Lab collaborated on a published paper: “μNeurocircuitry: establishing in vitro models of neurocircuits with human neurons.” Joseph A. Fantuzzo JA, De Filippis L, McGowan H, Yang N, Ng YH, Halikere A, Liu JJ, Hart RP, Wernig M, Zahn JD and Pang ZP. Technology; 5(2):87-95, 2017. |
| October 2017 | Pang Lab collaborated on a published paper: “Open Chromatin Profiling in hiPSC-Derived Neurons Prioritizes Functional Noncoding Psychiatric Risk Variants and Highlights Neurodevelopmental Loci” Forrest MP, Zhang H, Moy W, McGowan H, Leites C, Dionisio LE, Xu Z, Shi J, Sanders AR, Greenleaf WJ, Cowan CA, Pang ZP, Gejman PV, Penzes P and Duran J. Cell Stem Cell; 21: 1-14, 2017. |
| September 2017 | Apoorva Halikere, BA, was one of 4 students selected as recipients of the 2017-2018 Shatkin Scholarship, which recognizes a student’s academic and scholarly accomplishments in graduate school. |
| July 2017 | Zhiping Pang, MD, PhD, received a continuation of funding award for the 2nd year by the Governor’s Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism. Grant titled, “Regulation of MeCP2 by microRNAs and implications in the pathophysiology of autism. (period July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018). |
| July 2017 | Dina Popova, PhD, received a travel award to attend the International Narcotics Research Conference (INRC) on “The Study of Opiods” in Chicago, IL from July 9-14, 2017. |
| April 2017 | Heather McGowan successfully defended her PhD Thesis on April 24, 2017! Thesis titled, “Implications for chromosone 21-encoded mIRNAs and MeCP2 in synaptic dysfunction in trisomy 21.” Heather officially graduated from the Rutgers GSBS and earned her PhD. She will join the RWJMS to earn her MD. |
| February 2016 | Dr. Zhiping Pang’s Laboratory and Dr. Prabhas Moghe’s Laboratory collaborated on a paper that was accepted in Nature Communication, titled “Generation and Brain-Transplantation of 3-D Microscale Networks of Reprogrammed Human Neurons.” |
| February 2016 | Vincent Mirabella, MD/PhD Candidate, was awarded a NIH NIMH F30, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Pre-doctoral Fellowship. |
| January 2016 | Dr. Ji Liu was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association for this research project, titled “GLP-1 neural circuit in PVN regulate food intake.” |
| December 2015 | Heather McGowan received an Aaron Shatkin Graduate Scholarship Award of $3,000. The annual scholarships are awarded to graduate students who exhibit excellence in academics and research and are supported by funds raised at the RWJ Medical School Annual Scholarship Gala. |
| December 2015 | Heather McGowan and Apoorva Halikere were featured on LabTV; a collaboration between Rutgers media and the NIH funded LabTV Channel to promote NIH funded researchers.
http://www.labtv.com/Home/Profile?researcherId=2000http://www.labtv.com/Home/Profile?researcherid=2050. |
| November2015 | Vincent Mirabella, MD/PhD Candidate, received the 2015 NIMH MD/PhD Molecular Psychiatry Travel Award. |
| August 2015 | Apoorva Halikere was awarded a NIH-NIAAA F31, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship “Neuronal basis of OPRM1 A118G polymorphism in alcohol use disorders.” |
| July 2015 | Xuefeng Wang, JingJing Liu, Julia Xia, Ji Liu, Vince Mirabella and Zhiping Pang collaborated on a paper that was accepted in Cell Reports titled, “GLP1 regulation synaptic transmission.” |
| June 2015 | Apoorva Halikere starts her two month international collaboration under the NSF IGERT fellowship support in Guangzhou, China. |
| June 2015 | Heather McGowan won a TS21 Research Society travel award and presented a poster at the Trisomy 21 Research Symposium in Paris, France. |
| June 2015 | Trevor Alston, a bioengineering undergraduate, joined the Pang Lab for the summer. |
| June 2015 | Abdulraouf Abdulraouf, an Aresty Summer Student, joined the Pang Lab. |
| May 2015 | Dr. Zhiping Pang was an invited speaker at Shanghai Jiaotong University of China and at Shinshu University School of Medicine in Matsumoto, Japan. |
| May 2015 | NIcole Mlynaryk graduated from Rutgers with the highest honor and was awarded a NIH Postbac IRTA Fellowship. |
| May 2015 | Julia Xia graduated from Rutgers with the highest honor; was inducted into Matthew Leydt Society; won Fulbright Scholar support for one year; Henry Rutgers Scholar; and was admitted to Emory University School of Medicine. |
| January 2015 | Dr. Jeff Zahn started his sabbatical in the Pang Lab. |
| Sept. 2014 | Ji Liu joined the Pang Lab. |
| August 2014 | Vincent Mirabella, MD, PhD student joined the Pang Lab. |
| June 2014 | Joseph Fantuzzo joined the Pang Lab as a visiting student from the Rutgers School of Bioengineering. |
| June 2014 | Katarina Cruz (Amherst), SURP student joined the Pang Lab for the Summer. |
| May 2014 | Aziz Karakhanyan graduated from Rutgers; won Henry Rutgers Scholar award; admitted to Harvard Medical School Neuroscience graduate program. |
| May 2014 | Heather McGowan was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Fellowship for Individual Predoctoral PhD Degree Fellows (F31). |
| April 2014 | Apoorva Halikere, National Science Foundation GRFP Honorable Mention. |
| April 2014 | Lidia DeFilippis joined the Pang Lab. |
| January 2014 | Dr. Nick Bello started his sabbatical in the Pang Lab. |
| Oct. 7 2013 | Zhiping’s PhD advisor Thomas C. Südhof won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013!! Congratulations to Tom!! |
| Sept. 2013 | Jingjing Liu joined the Pang Lab. |
| Sept. 2013 | Aula Hamod joined the Pang Lab. |
| August 2013 | Apoorva Halikere joined the Pang Lab.Apporva was awrded the IGERT gradate fellowship support. |
| July 2013 | Jessica Lukacs was accepted into Virginia University School of Medicine. |
| June 2013 | Ben Mansky, SURP. |
| June 2013 | Sammy Othman, Aresty Summer Research Fellow. |
| June 2013 | Julia Xia, SIPGA fellow, Singapore |
| April 2013 | Julia Xia in Rutgers news |
| Jan. 2013 | Nicole Mlynaryk joined the lab. |
| Jan. 2013 | Xuefeng Wang joined the lab. |
| Oct. 2012 | Jessica Lukacs joined the lab. |
| Sept. 2012 | Yuefei Huang joined the lab. |
| Aug. 2012 | Heather McGowan joined the lab. |
| Jul. 2012 | Zhiping Pang was awarded the Freedman Award from BBRF! |
| May 2012 | Congratulations to Aziz Karakhanya on his SURP fellowship! |
| May 2012 | Congratulations to Julia Xia on her Aresty research fellowship! |
| Jan. 2012 | Guohui Li joined the lab as a Research Assistant. |
| Nov. 1, 2011 | Pang Lab was born. |
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