NEWS

Rebekah's abstract was selected for an oral presentation at the upcoming SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference. The meeting will be held October 11-13 in San Antonio. Rebekah will present her recent findings implicating pathogenic tau as a disruptor of nuclear calcium. www.sacnas.org

https://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/jumping-genes-rampant-tau-fliesb

Postdoctoral fellow Wenyan Sun finds that pathogenic tau promotes neurodegeneration by activating transposable elements. Read the full article here.

Congratulations to Adrian on winning first place at the Cell Biology, Genetics and Molecular Medicine Student Research Day for his oral presentation!

Congratulations to Simon Levy and Gabbe Zuniga - back-to-back passing of qualifying exams!

Elizabeth has joined the Frost lab for her dissertation research! Elizabeth, we are excited to have you and your excellent oral presentation skillz in the lab!

Garrett Cornelison's abstract was selected for an oral presentation at the Society for Neuroscience meeting. Alzforum has featured his work here:

Congratulations Gabbe!

We extend our warmest welcome to Gabbe Zuniga, who has joined the lab as an M.D./Ph.D. student! Gabbe's undergraduate research was performed in the lab of Dr. John Pierce-Shimomura's at UT Austin, where she worked to identify novel pharmaceuticals that prevent neurodegeneration in a C. elegans model of Alzheimer's disease. Gabbe and Bess graduated from the same high school, so now we not only have Drosophila and human brain in the laboratory, we have two Dragons.

The Frost laboratory has received support from the William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation to study the role of transposable elements in Alzheimer's disease and related tauopathies. The William and Ella Owens Foundation was created in 1998 to support original research on the cause, treatment, or prevention of human diseases and disorders. Our sincerest thanks to the Owens family!