Volume 26 Number 2 | Stony Brook, NY | < August 2016 > |
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New Faculty Member | Research News | STARS | Farewell |
Kudos | Division Chief's Corner | AT News | Resident Spotlight! |
New Publications | SARAS | Where is That? | Monthly Muscle Chillaxant |
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This month, we welcome Joshua Dubnau, Ph.D. who is joining the department as a Professor in the Research Division. Dr. Dubnau is no stranger to Stony Brook as he obtained a B.S. in Biochemistry here in 1988. He did his PhD degree at Columbia University in the Department of Genetics and Development. This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 2003, he became an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at CSH and six years later he was promoted to Associate Professor. During his tenure at CSH, Dr. Dubnau maintained Adjunct Faculty status at Stony Brook's Departments of Neurobiology and Genetics.
There are two aspects to Dr. Dubnau's research. He has been investigating the role of genes in learning and memory using Drosophila fruit flies as a model system. More recently, he has been examining mechanisms of neurodegeneration in diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). His current hypothesis is that transposons, pieces of DNA that can move from one area of the gene to another, are somehow re-activated in neurons and this leads to cell death. For this project, he continues to work with Drosophila, but also uses mice, cultured cells and postmortem human tissue. Dr. Dubnau hopes to be able to identify new biomarkers of neurodegenerative disease that might serve as therapeutic targets. Dr. Dubnau has published 36 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Neuroscience and the Journal of Neuroscience. In 2014, he edited the book "Behavioral Genetics of the Fly". He is the PI on three NIH grants with total funding of more than $1 million per year and has a grant from the ALS Ride for Life organization. Dr. Dubnau holds a patent on Gene Chip Technology for Determining Memory Genes and has a provisional patent application for Transposons and Aging. We are delighted to have Joshua Dubnau join the research efforts of our department! ![]() |
We bade a fond farewell to Mr. Richard Bogenshutz at a reception in his honor on July 14. Rick has been the Departmental Administrator since 2000. He has decided to retire after a distinguished tenure of service at Stony Brook. Before Dr. Peter Glass recruited him to Anesthesiology, Rick was the administrator in the Department of Surgery for three years. He is looking forward to less stress, more golf and a lot of fun times with his young granddaughter, Vivian! Thank you for all you have done for the department, Rick! More photos from the reception. ![]() |
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Srinivas Pentyala, PhD
I want to thank all of the participating faculty for contributing to the success of the 13th Annual "Science And Research Awareness Series" (SARAS) last month. A few of you are featured in the photo montage below. The SARAS website has links to all of the photos and videos taken at this year's SARAS.
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SleepTalker, the Stony Brook Anesthesiology Newsletter is published by the Department of Anesthesiology
Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY Tong Joo Gan, M.D., Chairman Editorial Board: James P. Dilger, Ph.D.; Stephen A. Vitkun, M.D., M.B.A., Ph.D.; Marisa Barone-Citrano, M.A.; Shivam Shodhan, M.D. |