• 39th Employee Recognition Awards
  IMMAG Employees

Darrell Brann

• Mechanisms underlying estrogen signaling in the brain and neuroprotection
• Postconditioning protection of the brain after stroke with the goal of developing post-stroke drug therapy to rescue neurons
  

Edward Hogan

• Myelination and Multiple Sclerosis

Lawrence C. Layman

• Identification of genes involved in neural control of human puberty
• Map genes by positional cloning in patients with developmental disorders
  

Lin Mei, Program Chief

Shirley Poduslo

• Genetics of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease as well as the genetics of other neurodegenerative disorders

Wen Cheng Xiong

• Molecular mechanisms underlying axon pathfinding, iron homeostasis, and bone remodeling

Robert K. Yu, IMMAG, Director

• Chemistry, metabolism and biological function of complex glycoconjugates in the developing nervous system
• Mechanisms underlying a variety of neurodegenerative disorders, including autoimmune demyelinating neuropathies, multiple sclerosis, mucopolysaccharidoses, and sensorineural hearing loss

Erhard Bieberich

• Function of lipids in apoptosis and cell polarity during development
• Function of lipids in tumorigenesis

Cesar Borlongan

• Translational cell therapy for stroke and other CNS disorders

Richard S. Cameron

• Cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate neuronal progenitor cell proliferation and differentiation during the development of the mammalian cerebral cortex

David Kozlowski -  Transgenic Zebrafish Core Facility

• Regeneration of sensory hair cells
• Embryonic migration of GnRH neurons

McCluskey, Lynnette

• Taste system, neural-immune interactions, neural degeneration and regeneration
  

Quansheng Du

• Cell polarity and asymmetric cell division

Ali Eroglu

• Cell and tissue preservation
• Stem cells
• Epigenetics

Xingming Shi

• Fat and bone interactions
• Molecular mechanisms of glucocorticoid actions