Milbrandt lab publishes paper on Schwann cell O-GlcNAcylation

Posted by on Jul 16, 2018 in Blog |

The Milbrandt lab published a paper recently on Schwann cell O-GlcNAcylation. The paper, “Schwann cell O-GlcNAcylation promotes peripheral nerve remyelination via attenuation of the AP-1 transcription factor JUN,” appears in PNAS. Sungsu Kim, an instructor in the Department of Genetics and a member of the Milbrandt lab, is first author on the paper. Read the abstract here.

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Milbrandt lab welcomes rotation student researching SARM1 activation

Posted by on Jul 5, 2018 in Blog |

The Milbrandt lab recently welcomed Caitlin Dingwall for a rotation project.  Caitlin received a B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology with Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. For her Honors thesis, she worked in the lab of Dr. Phillip Newmark where she pursued dual projects investigating the role of matrix metalloproteinases in stem cell homeostasis in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea and...

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