Warren symposium follows legacy of geneticist giant

If we want to understand how the brain creates memories, and how genetic disorders distort the brain’s machinery, then the fragile X gene is an ideal place to start. That’s why the Stephen T. Warren Memorial Symposium, taking place November 28-29 at Emory, will be a significant event for those interested in neuroscience and genetics. Stephen T. Warren, 1953-2021 Warren, the founding chair of Emory’s Department of Human Genetics, led an international team that discovered Read more

Mutations in V-ATPase proton pump implicated in epilepsy syndrome

Why and how disrupting V-ATPase function leads to epilepsy, researchers are just starting to figure Read more

Tracing the start of COVID-19 in GA

At a time when COVID-19 appears to be receding in much of Georgia, it’s worth revisiting the start of the pandemic in early 2020. Emory virologist Anne Piantadosi and colleagues have a paper in Viral Evolution on the earliest SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequences detected in Georgia. Analyzing relationships between those virus sequences and samples from other states and countries can give us an idea about where the first COVID-19 infections in Georgia came from. We can draw Read more

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Looking back Lab Land Top 10 posts in 2015

Happy New Year, and thank you for reading Emory Lab Land. Here are the top ten posts during 2015, according to Google Analytics. I pledge to bring you more quirky and insightful research, striking images and explanations of hard-to-grasp concepts in 2016.

  1. Hypersomnia update: beyond subject one [post is from summer of 2014, reflects long tail/lasting interest from hypersomnia community]
  2. Anticancer drug strategy: making cells choke on copper
  3. Microbiome enthusiasm at Emory
  4. The unsweetened option [Not about iced tea, but about low-sugar diet and fatty liver disease]
  5. Fragile X regulation is a finely tuned machine
  6. Stem cell/cardiology researcher Hee Cheol Cho joins Emory
  7. There will be micro particles (in stored blood)
  8. Hypersomnia update: clarithromycin study
  9. Gabbing about GABA — implications for hypersomnia treatments
  10. Nudging physician behavior on antibiotic orders
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