Ryan wins Best Poster Award at Sophion's 2025 Ion Channel Modulation Symposium for his poster "Role for the GTPase Rem2 in dopaminergic regulation of transmitter release". Yay!
The Bender lab is excited to welcome Alvin as a new research associate! He previously hails from Harvard where he helped build assistive devices to conquer mobility challenges.
The Bender lab grows with the addition of three new graduate students!
Check out "Lab Members" to learn more about them and their exciting research interests!
Ryan's first first-author work is now available on bioRxiv. In it, he describes new mechanisms for regulation of different streams of inhibitory input in prefrontal cortex. Read the preprint here.
Congrats to Katie Salvati for being chosen as the receipient of the Action Potential Basic Science Grant and to Sunrae Taloma for being awarded "best poster" at the FamilieSCN2A Foundation meeting. Kevin is a proud PI.
Congrats to Ying Li, MD PhD, for being selected for a Weill Award Clinician-Scientists in the Neurosciences! Ying is investigating how antipsychotics act the cellular and circuit level in limbic systems, and their interactions with dopaminergic and GABAergic systems.
Dopamine receptors are really interesting. They're targets for most commonly administered second generation antipsychotics (SGAs), and the canon has been that block of dopamine receptor-dependent signaling is the primary way in which SGAs help with neuropsychiatric symptoms. But here, by examining…
It's a pleasure to welcome our newest grad student, Sunrae Taloma, to the lab, where she's already digging into her project on sodium channel function and dysfunction using rat model systems. Sunrae holds the distinct honor of being so good at the rig that Kevin relented on his rule of "no quartz…
