Molecular Neurobiology

10/24/2024

I am optimistic that will be a great meeting for the respiratory field. Just returned from the planning meeting as the Chair of the APS Respiratory Section Programming Committee. Lots to look forward to in Baltimore! Shout out to and for help!

10/22/2024

Posted a while back about renovations to the lab. Now the infrastructure is all in place for the physiology lab (wet bench side still to come). We have hardline piping, switching manifolds, Cat6 ethernet, and isolated circuits. Planning for something unconventional...

10/18/2024

Work hard, play hard: Blowing off some steam after a long slog of doing rocket surgery in lab. Why is it when we play the mafia game as a lab, I am always the first killed off? Lab telling me something??? Thanks to for hosting!

10/16/2024

RIBT Study section is a lot of work and doing it virtual really diminishes the review experience, making that once a year chance to meet in person all the more special. Had a great time catching up with colleagues after a great day of deliberations.

10/14/2024

has graduated and is now on her way to the Feldman lab to learn e-phys. She's worked hard in building a great story on glutamate co-expressed in noradrenergic neurons in , https://buff.ly/3Yb7CUF.

10/11/2024

Honored to to give a talk at the Soria Moria Meeting on Sudden Infant Death and Pediatric Forensic Challenges in Norway. Great reception for my team's work in and very excited about developing new collaborations! Greatest honor was being included in Goldstein's composition

10/10/2024

A major goal to end is to improve the quality of information that comes from each SIDS event, including death scene investigation. Did a tough but key class on death scene investigation with and Danny Brewster from the Fort Bend Medical Examiner's Office.

10/09/2024

Visiting Norway, nearly every hotel room had a bottle opener in the bathroom. Clearly the Norwegians have long known the restorative powers of the shower beer!

10/08/2024

Big thanks to for helping show off the lab and share our science with aspiring scientists from as part of the 2nd annual New-Bee Program run by our awesome grad students.
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10/08/2024

Amazing work from our sponsored Rice D2K team Breath of Life with Michael Popa, Suchir Misra, Amanda Hogan, Carlos Gonzalez Rivera, Bo Sung Kim, Surya Sunil on novel approaches to interrogate neonate cardiorespiratory waveforms with machine learning.

10/08/2024

New work from the Ray lab and , in shows that co-expressed glutamate in the central NA system is not required for normal respiratory function and chemosensory reflexes, a contrasting perspective to a widely held view in the field

Vglut2-based glutamatergic signaling in central noradrenergic neurons is dispensable for baseline breathing and hypercapnic, hypoxic chemosensory reflexes, which challenges the current understanding of central noradrenergic neurons in breathing control.