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CSHL Stories and Media archive for Tag: Joshua Dubnau

Plus-sized fly: a model to understand the mechanisms underlying human obesity

1/10/2017

The fly sheds light on how the brain acts to signal “fullness” and the possibility of conferring resilience against the impact of high-fat diets Read the story »

Riding out of the shadows of ALS, toward better treatments

8/1/2016

Graduate student Lisa Krug discusses her research and personal connection to ALS, and Ride for Life, a not-for-profit organization for ALS research. Read the story »

Student Lisa Krug quells the transposon storm of ALS

2/22/2016

Lisa Krug defended her Ph.D. thesis, in which she studied the molecular basis of ALS in a model organism: the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Read the story »

CSHL neuroscientists show ’jumping genes’ may contribute to aging-related brain defects

4/7/2013

Transposon abundance and activity in the fruit fly brain increases with age and correlates with neurological degeneration. Read the story »

Neuroscience research brief: Can you smell that?

3/27/2013

A discovery about how brain circuits engage memory in response to odor. Read the story »

Storm of ‘awakened’ transposons may cause brain-cell pathologies in ALS, other illnesses

9/4/2012

A team of neuroscientists and informatics experts at CSHL reports important progress today in an effort to understand the relationship between transpo Read the story »

Short- and long-term memories depend on the same gene, acting in different neuronal circuits, CSHL study finds

8/14/2009

Activity of the rutabaga gene determines much of a fruit fly’s ability to learn and remember Read the story »

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists identify a mechanism that helps fruit flies lock-in memories

5/28/2008

A protein called Pum regulates the expression of genes that alter synaptic plasticity Read the story »

Pavlov’s flies: Researchers identify fruit fly memory mutants

2/17/2003

Neuroscientists Tim Tully and Josh Dubnau identify dozens of genes required for the formation of long-term memory. Read the story »

Scientists switch memory recall on and off in fruit flies

5/23/2001

Researchers find a way to use genetics to shut off and turn on electric activity in insect brain. Read the story »

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