2023
- July 7, 2023: Dr. Tian Li joined the Ma lab as a postdoctoral research fellow. Welcome, Tian!
- June 29, 2023: Jason Zhao joined the Ma lab as a high school student intern. Welcome, Jason!
- June 16, 2023: Alex Duncan joined the Ma lab as a research technician. Welcome, Alex!
- June 5, 2023: Noelle Nicol joined the Ma lab as a PhD student. Welcome, Noell
- June 5, 2023: Brighid Boylan joined the Ma lab as an undergraduate student intern. Welcome, Brighid!
- April 17, 2023: Nathan Swift successfully defended his MS thesis! Nathan is staying at the Ma lab as a Ph.D. student. Congratulations, Nathan!
- April 18, 2023: Xin Wang successfully defended his PhD thesis! Xin is staying at the Ma lab as a research fellow. Congratulations, Xin!
- April 13, 2023: Adam Manuel won the Wake Forest University Summer Research Fellow Award (URECA Fellowship). Congratulations, Adam!
- March 22, 2023: Ma lab has been awarded a new 5-year R01 grant from NIH/NIA in studying the roles of GSK3 signaling in AD.
- February 26, 2023: Sherry's paper entitled "Brain-specific repression of the α1 isoform of AMP-activated protein kinase alleviates object recognition impairments in aged mice" has been officially published in "Aging". Congratulations to Sherry, Wenzhong (co-first author), and Xin (co-author)!
- February 14, 2023: Xin's paper entitled "In-Depth Proteomic Analysis of De Novo Proteome in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease" has been officially published in "The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease". Congratulations to Xin and Sherry (co-author)!
2022
- September 9, 2022: Nicole's paper entitled "Homozygous knockout of eEF2K alleviates cognitive deficits in APP/PS1 AD model mice independent of brain Aβ pathology "has been published in "Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience". Congratulations to Nicole and all the co-authors!
- August 2, 2022: Hannah's paper entitled "Characterization of early Alzheimer's like pathological alterations in non-human primates with aging: A pilot study" has been officially published in "The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease". Congratulations to Hannah and all co-authors!
2021
- December 21, 2021: Nicole's paper entitled "Antagonists targeting eEF2 kinase rescue multiple aspects of pathophysiology in Alzheimer's disease model mice" has been officially published in "Journal of Neurochemistry". The paper has been selected as a cover article with editorial highlights. Congratulations to Nicole and all the co-authors!
- August 9, 2021: Xin's paper entitled "Isoform-specific dysregulation of AMP-activated protein kinase signaling in a non-human primate model of Alzheimer's disease" has been officially published in "Neurobiology of Disease". Congratulations to Xin and Sherry (co-author)!
- June 2021: Wenzhong's paper entitled "Brain-specific suppression of AMPKα2 isoform impairs cognition and hippocampal LTP by PERK-mediated eIF2α phosphorylation" has been officially published in "Molecular Psychiatry". Congratulations to Wenzhong and Sherry (co-1st author)!
- February 2021: Wenzhong's paper entitled "Suppression of the kinase for elongation factor 2 alleviates mGluR-LTD impairments in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease" has been officially published in "Neurobiology of Aging". Congratulations to Wenzhong and Sherry (co-author)!
- January 25, 2021: Wenzhong's paper entitled "Protein expression alteration in hippocampus upon genetic repression of AMPKα isoforms" has been officially published in "Hippocampus". Congratulations to Wenzhong, and co-authors Sherry and Xin!
2020
- November 2020: the paper by Saahj and Hannah (co-first authors) entitled "Repression of eEF2 kinase improves deficits in novel object recognition memory in aged mice" has been officially published in "Neurobiology of Aging". Congratulations to Saahj and Hannah!
September 22: Tao attended the first North Carolina State Go Championship Tournament in Raleigh and won first place in Division B.