Timeline

• 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 Donher 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'

November 2021

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

 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.

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