Mohit Dubey thesis defense November 14th
Water and ion homeostasis in the developing brain: disease models impacting understanding of physiology
NIH Brain Initiative grant with Allen Institute
Huib Mansvelder and his team receive 1.25 million dollar from the NIH for their research on human brain cells.
Thijs Verhoog’s paper in Nature Communications
First description of cholinergic modulation of long-term plasticity in human neocortex
Nature Communications paper on AMPA-R auxiliary subunit Shisa6
Remco Klaassen’s and Jasper Stroeder’s work on the AMPA receptor auxiliary subunit Shisa6 appeared in Nature Communications
Human pyramidal neurons are 3 times larger than mouse and monkey
Hemanth Mohan and Thijs Verhoog published their paper reporting the first full quantitative neuronal morphologies of human pyramidal neurons including dendrites as well as axons.
Two papers in Cerebral Cortex
Christiaan de Kock, Huib Mansvelder and collaborators publish two papers in Cerebral Cortex on the organizational principles of cortex in rat and human.