Ashley (Yan Tong, PhD candidate) wins the competitive Travel Award for her poster presentation at the SfN conference this November. Congratulations to the Fall 2026 BHI Trainee Travel Award Winners!
Our study on neuronal glucose metabolism in experimental models of frontotemporal dementia has been published. Congrats to first authors Ashley Tong (PhD candidate), Christina Mansour (undergraduate alumnus), and all co-authors! … Read More
How do astrocytes receive orders from neurons? As we continue to elucidate the function of an understudied protein, called Tweety Homolog 1 (TTYH1), we have recently uncovered its role in … Read More
Our first glial-cell study has been published online in the journal Glia. During the investigation of the enigmatic Tweety homologs, we found that endolysosomal process and autophagy determine bioenergetic balance … Read More
We thank the National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences and the Office of The Director of the NIH for their support.
We are grateful for the support from the National Institute on Aging.
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow! More info here: <https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/198013>
We welcome Ben joining us as visiting scholar! He will be doing some flywork to study metabolism, neurodegeneration, and aging.
Andy is taking a scientist position at SAHMRI Australia. We had a little sendoff for him today. Andy, bon voyage!
Loss of Activity-Induced Mitochondrial ATP Production Underlies the Synaptic Defects in a Drosophila Model of ALS Nicholas E. Karagas, Richa Gupta, Elham Rastegari, Kai Li Tan, Ho Hang Leung, Hugo J. Bellen, Kartik Venkatachalam and Ching-On Wong Journal of Neuroscience 8 … Read More