NEWS

Well done, Garrett! Your training begins with lunges in the grassy area outside. Go.

We are pleased to welcome first year graduate student Simon Levy to the lab! Simon hails from Switzerland, birthplace of Einstein. We expect nothing less, Simon. And also chocolate. When you go on vacation.

Our heartiest of welcomes to new postdoctoral fellow, Garrett Cornelison! Garrett made the long trip south from Austin. What San Antonio lacks in music festivals and Matthew McConaughey, Garrett, we make up for in delicious tacos and cost of living.

We look forward to all you record!

We had a great time at the 2016 Barshop Symposium on Aging "Promoting Healthy Aging: Intervening by Diet, Drugs, or Exercise" at the Mayan Dude Ranch in Bandera Texas. Great posters by Wenyan and Adrian! *We don't actually ever ride horses here.

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http://www.kens5.com/news/health/breakthrough-drug-in-the-battle-against-alzheimers-disease/312724524 The Frost lab was interviewed by San Antonio news station KENS5 to comment on the results from Biogen's phase 1b clinical trials with the drug Aducanumab, a monoclonal antibody that targets Amyloid beta aggregates. The Frost lab was not involved in the study. Alzforum has a nice write-up about Aducanumab: http://www.alzforum.org/therapeutics/aducanumab Stay up to date on

The project, entitled "Investigating a Toxic Role of Nucleoplasmic Reticulum Expansion in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Tauopathies" will focus on alterations in nucleocytoplasmic transport and nuclear calcium signaling that result from nuclear envelope invagination in tauopathies. We are currently recruiting a postdoctoral fellow for this project. Please contact Dr. Frost if you are interested.

Adrian was appointed as a graduate student to the NIA Training Program for Research Scientists in the Biology of Aging directed by Dr. Nick Musi and Dr. Peter Hornsby. Well done, Adrian. http://barshopinstitute.uthscsa.edu/main/postdoctoral/traininggrant

The Frost laboratory will use the Nathan Shock Pilot Grant to investigate maintenance of terminal neuronal differentiation in tauopathies.