Author Archive for: larnereyes

Lillian Jackson, a graduate trainee from the Alward lab, discovered male and female cichlids perform both the same and sex-typical behaviors and the neural basis of these behaviors are different for each sex. In one brain area implicated in aggression, the ventromedial hypothalamus (see image), males but not females showed elevated neural activity during aggression.

Professors Xiao, Yang, and Villanueva recently publish a new article in Cell Reports, “PPARy-dependent remodeling of translational machinery in adipose progenitors is impaired in obesity”. Their cover illustration was also chosen for this issue.

Dr. Alward and Mélanie Dussenne, a postdoc from the Alward lab, published an article on the expression of novel androgen receptors in three GnRH neuron subtypes in cichlids in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology, where their microscopy image was chosen for the cover of the current issue.

Dr. Stephanie Leal has been named a Fellow to the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) at UC Irvine, a multidisciplinary team of scholars spanning the globe. This honor is given to faculty members who were nominated by a current fellow and who received a majority vote during the voting process. The CNLM Fellows represent one of the world’s top “think tanks” in neuroscience. With an average of $20 million each year in federal funding to support high impact research programs, as well as over 10,000 citations per Fellow, they are revolutionizing our understanding of the brain and its disorders, creating innovative neurotechnologies, and improving brain health on a global scale. See a list of current fellows here: https://cnlm.uci.edu/about/fellows/