Brandon was awarded an F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from NINDS and a 2023 SRS Foundation Small Research Grant. And Alvin was awarded a Rackham Candidate Research Grant.
Congratulations to Brandon, Katie, and Sarah on our recent publication outlining a role for striatal dopamine in the regulation of sleep and cataplexy.
Toth, B. A., Chang, K. S., Fechtali, S. & Burgess, C. R. Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens promotes REM sleep and cataplexy. iScience 26, (2023)
Brandon was awarded a $23,000 grant from Wake Up Narcolepsy, a non-profit dedicated to enhancing narcolepsy awareness (https://www.wakeupnarcolepsy.org/).
Congrats to Hannah on successful completion of a Molecular and Integrative Physiology Masters degree! Hannah is off to work in the Kaczorowski lab.
Some recent papers from Burgess lab collaborations with our colleagues in the Flagel and Elias labs here at UM.
Fast neurotransmitter identity of MCH neurons: Do contents depend on context? Bethany G Beekly, Alan Rupp, Christian R Burgess, Carol F Elias
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37149229/
Inhibition of dopamine neurons prevents incentive value encoding of a reward cue: With revelations from deep phenotyping. Amanda G. Iglesias, Alvin S. Chiu, Jason Wong, Paolo Campus, Fei Li, Zitong (Nemo) Liu, Shiv A. Patel, Karl Deisseroth, Huda Akil, Christian R. Burgess, Shelly B. Flagel
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.03.539324v1
Katie has been awarded an F31 from the NIH!
Alvin and Hannah were awarded Rackham Graduate Student Research Grants from UM!
Recent review on the promise of MCH system-based drugs for the treatment of sleep disorders: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.952275/full
Congratulations to Anna, Jack, Elizabeth, Katie, Selina, and Swathi on fantastic end of summer data talks. And thanks to the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and the UM Neuroscience Innovators for providing undergraduate fellowships for summer research.
Congrats to Chris on starting his PhD at UT Dallas.
Congratulations to Lexi for publishing a Neuron Preview article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732101028X
The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Researchers at the U-M Michigan Neuroscience Institute (MNI) are investigating how the brain gives rise to emotions, perceptions, motivations, actions, and consciousness and are using that information to prevent and treat today’s most complex brain disorders including addiction, depression, epilepsy and dementia. MNI is creating new synergies, enabling great discoveries, and enhancing the impact of neuroscience across the University of Michigan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwiUa2z_9a8
Courtney is re-joining the lab as a Masters student in the University of Michigan program in Chemical Biology .
NIH R01 awarded to the Burgess lab to investigate the role for lateral hypothalamic peptidergic neurons in feeding and sleep behaviors.
Brandon Toth is officially joining the lab as a PhD candidate in the University of Michigan Neuroscience Graduate Program!
