Timeline

• First original research paper from the Dore lab published in Frontiers in Molecular Neurosciences
  • Frontiers | Fluorescence lifetime imaging of AMPA receptor endocytosis in living neurons: effect of Aβ and PP1
• Lab party at La Jolla Shores to celebrate the departure of our awesome lab assistant Katie. Thank you so much for those two years in the lab Katie, we already miss you.
• We also celebrate Tania and Emily who just graduated and are leaving the lab to pursue a master's degree (Emily) and to work in the biotech industry (Tania). Good luck in your future endeavors!
• We welcome two new undergraduate researchers in the lab: Amber and Nissa

• Haritha and Maureen are accepted in the BS/MS program to continue their research in the lab, congratulations!

• Katie presents our research on PSD-95 palmitoylation at the UCSD Neurodegeneration meeting
• Nicole Castro, a biochemistry major, joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher, welcome Nicole!
• Celeste, Haritha and Maureen present their research at the Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) Congrats!

• Hemanth fellowship ended, we have a lab lunch to celebrate his hard work on the ABHD17a project. Farewell and thank you Hemanth!
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• Our book chapter explaining how to use FLIM to measure NMDA receptor Metabotropic Signaling in now online: https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-0716-3742-5_4#Sec18

January 2024

• Bowling lab holiday party; we also celebrate the departure of two amazing undergrads, Ian and Dina who worked on fluorescence lifetime imaging (Ian) and the APOE project (Dina). Thanks for all your hard work and good luck in your future endeavors!
• Angela Snyder joins the lab as a Research Scientist specialized in electrophysiology and imaging. Welcome Angela!
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November 2023

• The lab welcomes four new undergraduate volunteers: Celeste, Tania, Maureen and Emily
• Shayne presents a poster at SFN in Washington D.C. on long-term depression in APP/PS1 mice
  
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• Dr. Hemanth Kumar Boyina receives a 6-months fellowship to work in the Dore lab on characterizing a protective mutation in the depalmitoylating enzyme ABHD17a. Welcome Hemanth!
  

• Katie, Dina and Shayne present at the 'Summer Research Conference'
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• The lab hosts STARTneuro scholars for their capstone research projects

• Andrew and Mey leave the lab to pursue their dream of becoming doctors. Andrew will start medical school at UCSF and Mey at the University of Michigan. Congratulations to you two and the biggest thank you for all you've done for the lab!!!
• Lab BBQ to celebrate Andrew and Mey
• Katie becomes our new lab assistant after graduating and being an awesome volunteer for more than a year. Welcome Katie!

• Yixing Du joins the lab as a Research Scientist specialized in electrophysiology. Welcome Yixing!
• Dr. Dore is now a core faculty member of the STARTneuro program.

December 2022

• Dr. Dore is now officially an Assistant Professor! 
• Andrew presents a poster at the 'Roger Tsien Cell Signaling Symposium'.    

November 2022

• Paper on an Alzheimer's disease-associated variant of protein kinase C is now published in Nature communications (collaboration with the Newton lab)
• Mehreen who finished her undergraduate studies in May 2022 is now a 'Neurosciences Lab Assistant'. Congrats and thanks for all your hard work Mey!  
• Several members of the lab attend SFN 2022, Dr. Dore presents a poster with title: Blocking PSD-95 depalmitoylation rescues memory deficits in female APP/PS1 mice but not in males. 

October 2022

• Dina Kianiazar and Haritha Karthikeyan join the lab as undergraduate volunteers. Welcome to the Dore lab! 
• Dr. Dore is an invited speaker at West Virginia University (WVU). Talk title: Increasing PSD-95 palmitoylation, a way to prevent synaptic loss. 

August 2022

• Dr. Dore attends the International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN) conference in Honolulu, Hawaii and gives a conference in a symposium on NMDA receptors along with Profs. Jesper Sjostrom and Roger Thompson. Talk title: Metabotropic NMDA receptor signaling in Alzheimer's disease.  

Summer 2022

• Jenna Dohner from UC Davis is a summer intern. Katie Prinkey joins the lab as a volunteer. 

March 2022

• Dr. Dore presents the lab's research virtually at Konkuk University (South Korea). Talk title: Increasing PSD-95 palmitoylation makes synapses resilient against Alzheimer's disease. 
• Review on synaptic resilience now online!
•  'Novel approaches to increase synaptic resilience as potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease'

December 2021

• Dr. Dore is an invited speaker at CERVO research center in Quebec city, Canada. Talk title: Targeting PSD-95 palmitoylation in Alzheimer's disease.

November 2021

• Dr. Dore presents a special seminar at UCSD's Neurosciences department

October 2021

• Dr. Dore attends and presents a poster at the 'New horizons in AD' conference in Leuven, Belgium

August 2021

• Mehreen Manikkoth joins the lab as an undergraduate volunteer

June 2021

• Cell Report paper published! 'PSD-95 protects synapses from Aβ'
• Dr. Dore gives a talk at the ASBMB virtual meeting in June 2021, within a symposium on 'Flux-independent signaling by ionotropic receptors'
• Kate Merritt and Kathryn Philhower join the lab as undergraduate volunteers  

May 2021

• Dr. Dore R01 grant on PSD-95 palmitoylation is awarded!
• Andrew Pham is hired as a Staff Research Associate