Appel Lab
News
Alex Hughes was interviewed for the International Zebrafish Society "Science Spotlight", which highlights her recent publication in Nature Neuroscience on microglia and developmental myelination.
Winter 2020
Alex Hughes successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation entitled, "NEURONAL AND MICROGLIAL INTERACTIONS WITH OLIGODENDROCYTES REGULATE MYELIN SHEATH FORMATION AND ELIMINATION " on September 21, 2020. Alex will remain with us until spring 2021 when she will begin a postdoctoral fellowship in Harry Burgess' lab at the NIH.
September, 2020
Katie Yergert successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation entitled, "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying mRNA Localization to Myelin Sheaths" on September 17, 2020. She is now a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Gary Bassell at Emory University.
September 2020
Kayt Scott has been awarded a NIH NRSA F31 predoctoral training grant to support her work investigating mechanisms of neural cell fate specification.
September 2020
Kayt Scott's manuscript entitled, "" (Development, 2020) was selected for a Research Highlight in Development ("")
and she was interviewed for "" piece in The Node.
August 2020
Katie Yergert presents at FASEB RNA Localization and Local Translation Conference
Katie was selected to give a "Flash" talk to feature her poster entitled, "Dynamic features of mRNA localization in nascent myelin sheaths".
June 2019