Warren symposium follows legacy of geneticist giant

If we want to understand how the brain creates memories, and how genetic disorders distort the brain’s machinery, then the fragile X gene is an ideal place to start. That’s why the Stephen T. Warren Memorial Symposium, taking place November 28-29 at Emory, will be a significant event for those interested in neuroscience and genetics. Stephen T. Warren, 1953-2021 Warren, the founding chair of Emory’s Department of Human Genetics, led an international team that discovered Read more

Mutations in V-ATPase proton pump implicated in epilepsy syndrome

Why and how disrupting V-ATPase function leads to epilepsy, researchers are just starting to figure Read more

Tracing the start of COVID-19 in GA

At a time when COVID-19 appears to be receding in much of Georgia, it’s worth revisiting the start of the pandemic in early 2020. Emory virologist Anne Piantadosi and colleagues have a paper in Viral Evolution on the earliest SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequences detected in Georgia. Analyzing relationships between those virus sequences and samples from other states and countries can give us an idea about where the first COVID-19 infections in Georgia came from. We can draw Read more

Top Ten

Looking back – Lab Land Top 10 posts in 2015

Happy New Year, and thank you for reading Emory Lab Land. Here are the top ten posts during 2015, according to Google Analytics. I pledge to bring you more quirky and insightful research, striking images and explanations of hard-to-grasp concepts in 2016.

  1. Hypersomnia update: beyond subject one [post is from summer of 2014, reflects long tail/lasting interest from hypersomnia community]
  2. Anticancer drug strategy: making cells choke on copper
  3. Microbiome enthusiasm at Emory
  4. The unsweetened option [Not about iced tea, but about low-sugar diet and fatty liver disease]
  5. Fragile X regulation is a finely tuned machine
  6. Stem cell/cardiology researcher Hee Cheol Cho joins Emory
  7. There will be micro particles (in stored blood)
  8. Hypersomnia update: clarithromycin study
  9. Gabbing about GABA — implications for hypersomnia treatments
  10. Nudging physician behavior on antibiotic orders
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