Reporters from Fox5 visited to the lab to learn about our research.  See more here: https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-tech-researchers-study-pulsing-light-as-non-invasive-alzheimers-disease-treatment

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Check out our new paper: “Multisensory flicker modulates widespread brain networks and reduces interictal epileptiform discharges”  https://rdcu.be/dEtHG led by Lou Blanpain. Lou discovered how *human* neural circuits respond to sensory flicker stimulation and how sensory stimuli effect pathological epileptiform activity.  In a series of clever experiments, Lou reveals new mechanisms of sensory evoked responses far…

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Congratulations to Nuri Jeong for being invited to present a research talk and for receiving a travel award from the Neurobiology of Cognition Gordon Research Conference. Nuri’s talk described her lastest discovery: “Hippocampal interneurons gate new goal learning by dynamically suppressing excitatory activity”

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Congratulations to Steph Prince for being selected for the Emory Women’s Club Memorial Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship supports outstanding researchers completing their PhD. Find out more about the Emory Women’s club here.

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Nuri Jeong’s latest paper on “Learning from inhibition: Functional roles of hippocampal CA1 inhibition in spatial learning and memory” is now out. While excitatory cells often get center stage, this review shines a spotlight on interneurons. Understanding the role of hippocampal interneurons in memory is essential because these cells dysfunctional in many diseases. Recent studies…

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Tina Franklin recently won an award for here presentation at the GRC Neurobiology of Brain Disorders conference. Her work received a lot of interest and great feedback at this conference at the Cold Spring Harbor Glia conference.

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Lu Zhang was invited to the Allen Institute to join NeuroDataReHack, a neuro data hackathon in October. We’re looking forward to hearing about what he does!

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Steph Prince, Nuri Jeong, and Lu Zhang had a great time presenting their work and hearing about the latest research at GRC Neurobiology of Cognition. We’re so excited to have the in person experience again at conferences to be able to come together as a community.

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Big congratulations to Stephanie Prince for being awarded the Emory Neuroscience Program Scholar of the year AND Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award!  Steph has some very cool science in the works. Check out her paper from earlier this year here.  

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The American Neurological Association has recognized Annabelle Singer for achieving significant stature in neurological research and demonstrating the promise of major contributions to come. Singer has received a Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholars Award from the association and will deliver a talk about her work virtually in October at the association’s 2021 national meeting. Read…

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Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Qiliang He for being granted a Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Fellowship Award  for the continuation of his work on the reversal of age-related memory damage. Read the whole story [HERE!]  

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Congratulations, Abby Paulson for receiving J. Norman and Rosalyn Wells Fellowship Award; granted for conducting meritorious research in the areas of neuroengineering or brain tumors.

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Dr. Annabelle Singer has been named a recipient of the prestigious Jannett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). The Trubatch Award recognizes early-career researchers who have demonstrated great originality and creativity in their work.  Congratulations to all the 2020 awardees!     More on the 2020 Trubatch Career Development Award…

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On Wednesday Oct 14th at 7PM on Your Fantastic Mind, our research will be included in an episode on Memory showing on PBS. You can also find episodes here after broadcast

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Congratulations to Nuri Jeong for receiving the Michael Kuhar Graduate Fellowship in Neuroscience!

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Check out Lu Zhang presenting his paper “Sub-second dynamics of theta-gamma coupling in hippocampal CA1” in JRNLclub, an online journal club: https://jrnlclub.org/research-films/sub-second-dynamics-theta-gamma-coupling

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Dr. Singer and colleagues were interviewed for a German documentary “Puzzling forgetting – new hope in Alzheimer’s.” The documentary will air Thursday 9/19 on 3sat at 8:15PM. Full video and more information (in German) here: https://www.3sat.de/wissen/wissenschaftsdoku/raetselhaftes-vergessen-100.html And here: https://www.facebook.com/3sat.de/videos/1091711534368653/?epa=SEARCH_BOX

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Congratulations to Abby Paulson for receiving an F31 pre-doctoral training fellowship from the NIA.  The project, entitled “Effects of non-invasive gamma stimulation on hippocampal neural codes in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease” builds on her prior work, a collaboration with Anthony Martorell that was published earlier this year in Cell. Well done Abby!

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Lu’s paper is published in eLife.  Click to check it out or go here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/44320 This paper reports new methods to examine oscillatory brain activity (or brain waves), which are thought to play a key role in how different brain regions communicate. These brain waves, which are altered in many diseases, can be thought of like walkie talkies…

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Our study with the Emory Brain Health Center was featured in a recent edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

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Anthony and Abby’s Cell paper is covered in the New York Times: An especially insightful write up and commentary from AlzForum: Flash! Beep! Gamma Waves Stimulate Microglia, Memory

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Congratulations to Anthony Martorell (Li-Huei Tsai’s lab) and Abby Paulson (my lab), co-first authors of this cool new paper in Cell. In short: auditory + visual sensory flicker stimulate rhythmic activity in deep brain regions that are hard to reach with existing non-invasive stimulation, like the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. Gamma frequency multi-sensory flicker (but…

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Annabelle Singer and Dean McLaughlin discuss memory, Alzheimer’s, and our research in the Dean’s podcast, The Uncommon Engineer:           Listen to more episodes of the Dean’s Uncommon Engineer series here:

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As a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow, Dr. Singer attended the 18th Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium in Nanjing, China. The Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium series (KFoS) is the Academy’s premiere activity for distinguished young scientists.  Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia bring together outstanding young scientists to discuss exciting advances and opportunities in a…

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The Singer lab was awarded a 5-year grant from the NIH National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).  We are grateful to the NIH for it’s continued support of basic research.

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Tune in to the Packard Foundation’s Facebook page for live coverage of Dr. Singer and other Fellows’ presentations on Thursday, September 6 from 10:40-11:20 AM PST. Share with your lab and colleagues!

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Dr. Singer was highlighted in Georgia Tech President Bud Petersen’s Annual Address to the Institute.  See the slides here.

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Our new paper in Nature Protocols describes a non-invasive approach to evoke microglia engulfment and reduce amyloid levels in the mouse brain. We describe how to assemble and operate a custom-made 40 Hz light flicker system and downstream analysis of the molecular and cellular effects.  Read more here

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Today we hosted GT First Lady, Val Peterson and spouses of the Georgia Board of Regents.  Abby gave a presentation about our lab research, and Matty and Abby gave them a tour of the Neurolab.

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