News

2/07/2012 – Ashton of the Lubin lab wins UNCF-Merck Award

Ashton Wheeler of the Lubin lab has been awarded a United Negro College Fund-Merck summer internship for 2012! Ashton will participate in Neuroscience research at a Merck facility in either Boston or New Jersey for 10-12 weeks over the summer. The award amount is up to $25,000 and will cover all tuition and fees for the upcoming school year. In addition, the Neurobiology department is now eligible for a $10,000 grant as well. http://umsi.uncf.org/

4/04/2011 – Davis of the Lubin lab wins 1st place in the Alabama Science Fair

William “Davis” Haselden, a senior at Mountain Brook high school conducting research in Dr. Farah Lubin’s lab in the department of Neurobiology, has been named the 1st place winner in the 2011 Alabama Science and Engineering Fair in the Senior Division for Cellular and Molecular Biology (http://nsstc.uah.edu/asef/). Davis will now advance and travel to compete for $50K in scholarship funds in the International Science Fair competition May 8-13 in Los Angeles CA.  Davis is part of the UAB Center for Community OutReach Development (CORD) program which is organized by Dr. Michael Wyss (http://main.uab.edu/cord/show.asp?durki=10936). The UAB CORD program will provide travel funds for Haselden.

Please help us to congratulate William “Davis” Haselden on his accomplishments.

11/17/2010 – McNulty Civitan Scientist Award

Dr. Farah Lubin, Assistant Professor in the UAB Department of Neurobiology, has been named the 2010-2011 McNulty Civitan Scientist.  Dr. Lubin’s research focuses on abnormal gene regulation as a contributor to cognitive disorders associated with epilepsy and learning and memory.  Now in its 6th year, this award supports the research of outstanding scientists with a long term career commitment to research on developmental disabilities. The award is supported through contributions from the Foundation for Mentally Retarded Children, Chesapeake District of Civitan International, Inc.

2010- Lubin quoted in Science News: “Everyone’s looking for some way to alleviate these age-related memory deficits…”

2010- Lubin lab’s latest publication in the Journal of Neuroscience 2010, March 10; 30:3589-3599, is recognized in Alzforum: News: “Histone Methyls Solidify Memories” and in Epigenie: “Thank Histone Methylation for the Memories.”

2010- Nicola Grissom of the Lubin lab has been selected for a travel grant to support travel to the National Summit on Gender and the Postdoctorate, sponsored by the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) and the National Science Foundation. The Summit will take place on March 10-11, 2010, in Philadelphia, PA.

2009- Swati Gupta of the Lubin Lab has been accepted to the Winter School in Molecular and Cellular Cognition, Zurich, Switzerland December 6-13, 2009!

The Winter School in Molecular and Cellular Cognition is part of a series of educative schools organized by the European Branch of the Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (EMCCS, www.molcellcog.com) every 2-3 years in Europe. The goal is to foster the development of this new field of research, and train and educate young researchers expected to contribute to the field in the near future.

2009- Sarah Morse of the Lubin Lab wins UAB Center for Aging Award!

2009-Dana Foundation Environment influences gene expression

2008-Lubin wins FASEB Award

2008-Nature Reviews, Learning and memory: Remodel to reconsolidate

2008-Breaking news in Science, Novel Roles for the NF-{kappa}B Signaling Pathway in Regulating Neuronal Function

2008-Neurology Today
New Studies of Epigenetics: Possible Treatments for Neurodegeneration?

2004-American Epilepsy Society and Milken Family Foundation Announce Epilepsy Award Recipient