Tao Ma Lab - News

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!