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Dr. Qian-Quan Sun, SBC Director, Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: 307-766-5602

Email: neuron@uwyo.edu

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SBC News and Publications

Established in September, 2017, the SBC is a phase I center of biomedical research excellence program (COBRE) funded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of National Institutes of Health (NIH). The primary mission of the SBC is to foster and conduct high-quality scientific research that advances the understanding of our sensory systems and disorders related to them [read more].


Publications supported by the SBC grant (1 P20 GM 121310)

All publications were from COBRE supported investigator acknowledging COBRE awards.

Zhang Y, Denman A, Liang B, Werner C, Beacher N, Li Y, Shaham Y, Barbera G, and Lin DT. (2021). Detailed Mapping of Behavior Reveals the Formation of Prelimbic neural ensembles across operant learning. Neuron. Doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.11.022

Institutional affiliation:

Names with underline: University of Wyoming

Names without underline: National Institute on Drug Abuse

Cahill B, Poelker-Wells S, Prather, JF, Li Y. (2021). A Glimpse Into The Sexual Dimorphisms In Major Depressive Disorder Through Epigenetic Studies. Neural Circuits. Doi: 10.3389/fncir.2021.768571

Institutional affiliation:

Names with underline: University of Wyoming

Names without underline: National Institute on Drug Abuse

Thapa R, Liang B, Liu R, Li Y. 2021. Stereotaxic Viral Injection and Gradient-index Lens Implantation for Deep Brain In vivo Calcium Imaging. Doi: 10.3791/63049

Institutional affiliation:

Names with underline: University of Wyoming

Names without underline: National Institute on Drug Abuse

Beacher NJ, Washington KA, Werner CT, Zhang Y, Barbera G, Li Y, Lin DT. 2021. Circuit Investigation of Social Interaction and Substance Use Disorder using Miniscopes. Neural Circuits 15:107. Doi: 10.3389/fncir.2021.762441

Institutional affiliation:

Names with underline: University of Wyoming

Names without underline: National Institute on Drug Abuse

Vollmer KM1, Doncheck EM1, Grant RI1, Winston KT1, Romanova EV1, Bowen CW1, Siegler PN1, Green LM1, Bobadilla AC2, Trujillo-Pisanty I3, Kalivas PW1, Otis JM 1,4 (2021) A Novel Assay Allowing Drug Self-Administration, Extinction, and Reinstatement Testing in Head-Restrained Mice. Front Behav Neurosci doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.744715. PMID: 34776891 PMCID: PMC8585999 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.744715

Institutional affiliation:

1 Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.

2 School of Pharmacy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States.

3 Langara College, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

  • Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.

Zhang Z and Zhang GR (2021) Chromosome-condensed G1 phase yeast cells are tolerant to desiccation stress. Microbial Cell, 2022 (in press, acceptance email attached)

Institutional affiliation:

1 Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA.

2 Laramie High School, 1710 Boulder Dr. Laramie, WY 82070, USA.

  1. Roballo KCS1, Gigley JP2, Smith TA3, Bittner GD4, Bushman JS1 Functional and immunological peculiarities of peripheral nerve allografts. (2022) Neural Regen Res 2022 Apr;17(4):721-727doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.322445. PMID: 34472457 PMCID: PMC8530136

Institutional Affiliations

1School of Pharmacy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.

2Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.

3Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.

4Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.

PMID: 34472457 PMCID: PMC8530136 DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.322445

Liu, Z., Donnelly, K. B., Pratt, K. G. Preparations and Protocols for Whole Cell Patch Clamp Recording of Xenopus laevis Tectal Neurons. J. Vis. Exp. (133), e57465, doi:10.3791/57465 (2018).

Yang W and Sun QQ*. (2018) Circuit-specific and neuronal subcellular-wide E-I balance in cortical pyramidal cells. Scientific Reports | (2018) 8:3971 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-22314-9

Baskilab receives a second US Patent. This patent describes an invention of a nanoparticle Delivery System for Tageted Anti-Obesity Treatment. US Patent No US 9,782,481 B2 awarded on October 10,2017.

Weiguo Yang, Anthony Williams, Qian-Quan Sun* (2021). Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Epileptogenesis in a Mouse Model of Focal Cortical Malformation. Current Biology. 31, 1–12.

Article link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1c17C3QW8Ru9h7

Qun Ren, Rebecca Brenner, Thomas C. Boothby & Zhaojie Zhang, Membrane and lipid metabolism plays an important role in desiccation resistance in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BMC Microbiology,20:338 (2020).

Van der Linden CJ, Gupta P, Bhuiya A, Riddick K, Hossain K, Santoro SW (2020). Olfactory Stimulation Regulates the Birth of Neurons That Express Specific Odorant Receptors. Cell Rep. 33(1):108210. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108210.

 


 

SBC in the News

October 12, 2017: UW's Sensory Biology Center Receives Five-Year, $10 Million COBRE Grant

October 10, 2017: Baskilab receives second U.S. Patent, US 9,782,481 B2

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Dr. Qian-Quan Sun, SBC Director, Professor

Department of Zoology and Physiology

Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: 307-766-5602

Email: neuron@uwyo.edu

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