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9. June 2026: Ari’s, Sarah’s and Yan’s review article “Propagation of \u03b1-synuclein pathology: models, mechanism and future goals” is published in Molecular Neurodegeneration Advances. Congratulations!<\/p>\r\n

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3. June 2026: Virginia’s NOA for her K08 “The role of enteric alpha-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease” is here. Congratulations!!\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

25. May 2026: Jacqueline presents at the 7th World Parkinson Congress in Phoenix on “New insights into synaptic vesicle dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease” and takes part in an exciting panel discussion about organelle dysfunction in PD.<\/p>\r\n

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13. May 2026: Virginia talks about how stabilizing alpha-synuclein on the synaptic vesicle membrane is neuroprotective.<\/p>\r\n

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28. April 2026: Jacqueline presents the lab’s synuclein work at the Center for Neuroregeneration Visiting Lecture Series at Houston Methodist Research Institute.<\/p>\r\n

22. April 2026: Jacqueline talks about “Synaptic dysfunction in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration” at the Yale University YJBM Colloquium, hosted by the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (YJBM) and the Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences.<\/p>\r\n

24. March 2026: Lots of exciting science at the Appel Poster Symposium.<\/p>\r\n

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13. March 2026: Julita’s and Violetta’s review on synaptic vesicle dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease is published in the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease. Congratulations!<\/p>\r\n

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27. February 2026: Violetta presents her exciting work on beta-synuclein.<\/p>\r\n

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1. December 2025: Welcome, Dinara! We are excited to work with you.<\/p>\r\n

21. November 2025: Having fun at the Appel Institute Thanksgiving Potluck Feast!<\/p>\r\n

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13. October 2025: Welcome, Taylor! Taylor joins the Burr\u00e9 lab as rotation student.<\/p>\r\n

5. – 10. October 2025: Jacqueline presents the newest lab findings on molecular mechanism underlying human disease-linked mutations in SNAP-25 at the Biophysical Society Membrane Fusion and Budding Conference in Estes Park.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\r\n

8. – 9. September 2025: Jacqueline presents the lab’s newest findings on synuclein function and how dysfunction triggers synucleinopathies at the Grand Challenges in Parkinson’ Disease at van Andel Research Institute.\"\"<\/p>\r\n

13. – 18. July 2025: Jacqueline presents the lab’s newest findings on syntaxin dysfunction in STXBP1 diseases at the ISCCB meeting in Detroit.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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8. – 13. June 2025: Jacqueline presents the lab’s newest findings on synuclein function and how dysfunction triggers synucleinopathies at the Parkinson’s Disease Gordon Conference in Waterville Valley.\"\"<\/p>\r\n

11. June 2025: Ari presents at the Appel WIPS.<\/p>\r\n

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6. June 2025: Goodbye, Eseosa, and best wishes for your MD-PhD training.<\/p>\r\n

30. May: Congratulations, Julita and Ari, for being awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Parkinson Disease Assocation. Amazing news!<\/p>\r\n

23. May 2025: Farewell, Luca! We wish you all the best for medical school.<\/p>\r\n

19. May 2025: Exciting science at the Appel Symposium Poster Session.\"\"<\/p>\r\n

16. May 2025: Goodbye, Vivian – we wish you all the best for medical school!<\/p>\r\n

8. May 2025: Jacqueline presents the lab’s work as plenary speaker at the 2025 Annual Symposium for the Leon Levy Scholarships in Neuroscience.<\/p>\r\n

8. May 2025: Congratulations, Ari, on being named a 2025 Leon Levy Scholar in Neuroscience.<\/p>\r\n

2. May 2025: Join me in congratulating Julita for being accepted into the competitive SPrINT Neurobehavior Workshop<\/a><\/span> at beautiful Stanford University.<\/p>\r\n

1. May 2025: Congratulations to all authors for publishing a beautiful story in Nature Communications on changes in synaptic vesicle composition and pools with aging and in synucleinopathies.\"\"<\/p>\r\n

29. April 2025: Let’s congratulate Ari for winning the Leon Levy Fellowship in Neuroscience<\/span><\/a>!<\/p>\r\n

1. March 2025: Welcome, Jae Hoon. We are excited to work with you!<\/p>\r\n

1. December 2024: We are excited to announce that the lab was awarded an R01 to study alpha-synuclein in the enteric nervous system.<\/p>\r\n

13. – 17. November 2024: Eseosa presents his work at the ABRCMS in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\r\n

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8. November 2024: Virginia presents at the BMRI Bed-to-benchside WIPS.<\/p>\r\n

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23. – 24. September 2024: Neuroscience Graduate Program Retreat at Interlaken Inn in Connecticut.\"\"<\/p>\r\n

26. August 2024: We welcome Sarah to join the lab as a research technician!<\/p>\r\n

2. July 2024: Welcome, Starr! To a fruitful rotation project.<\/p>\r\n

1. July 2024: Welcome, Vivian! We are looking forward to exciting discoveries.<\/p>\r\n

28. June 2024: Goodbye, Jill and Karlton. It has been a pleasure to work with you. We wish you all the best for medical school!\"\"<\/p>\r\n

26. June 2024: Julita presents her work at the Appel WIPS.<\/p>\r\n

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17. June 2024: Welcome, Jackie – we are excited to work with you!<\/p>\r\n

13. June 2024: Welcome, Anish! We are looking forward to beautiful disease-linked mutant modeling.<\/p>\r\n

28. May 2024: Congratulations, Noah, on winning the 2024 Mitchell Alan Ross Prize for your dedication to epilepsy research!<\/p>\r\n

22. May 2024: Our article on the gut-brain axis in Parkinson’s Disease is accepted in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine! Congratulations to all authors.<\/p>\r\n

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22. May 2024: The first Appel Poster Symposium! Congrats, Luca, Eseosa, Karlton, Violetta and Julita, for outstanding posters!<\/p>\r\n

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21. May 2024: Jacqueline presents our exciting lab findings on alpha-synuclein function and dysfunction to the Translational Neuroscience community at Michigan State University.<\/p>\r\n

4. March 2024: Welcome, Felipe! We are excited to have you in the lab!<\/p>\r\n

10. January 2024: Noah receives a grant funded by Uplifting Athletes and the STXBP1 Foundation – congratulations!!! Read more here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

9. January 2024: Congratulations to Noah and all co-authors for putting together a wonderful story (Disease-linked mutations in Munc18-1 deplete synaptic Doc2)\u00a0 that was accepted in Brain today.<\/p>\r\n

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22. December 2023: Congratulations, Eseosa, for being accepted into Weill Cornell Medicine’s first post-baccalaureate research education program to enhance diversity in biomedical research, the ASPiRE postbaccalaureate program, administered through the NIGMS R25 PREP funding program.<\/p>\r\n

15. December 2023: Welcome, Violetta! We are excited to have you on board!<\/p>\r\n

9. November 2023: Appel members present posters during the 2023 Appel Symposium.<\/p>\r\n

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2. October 2023: Welcome, Citlalli – we are excited to have you join the lab as rotation student!<\/p>\r\n

25. September 2023: Virginia gives an interview<\/span><\/a> after her presentation at the 2023 ANA Meeting.<\/p>\r\n

19. September 2023: Congratulations, Virginia, for receiving the Emerging Scholar Award for the 2023 ANA Annual Meeting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

14. September 2023: Jacqueline presents at the University of Connecticut Neuroscience Seminar series on our Munc18-1 projects.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

22. August 2023: Welcome, Julita! Julita joins the lab as postdoctoral fellow.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

05. August 2023: Thank you, Zyrai, for a great time in the lab!<\/p>\r\n

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31. July 2023: Welcome to the lab, Tenzin and Valentine! We are excited to host you for your summer internship.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

20. June 2023: Welcome, Luca! Luca is joining the team as technician.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

20. June 2023: Virginia receives a Travel Award for the 148th Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association (September 9-12 in Philadelphia, PA) to present her work on alpha-synuclein in the gut. Congrats!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

12. June 2023: Jillian is joing the team as technician – welcome!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

12. June 2023: Eseosa is joing the lab as technician – welcome!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

7. June 2023: Noah presents his work at the Appel Forum WIPS.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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5. June 2023: Zyrai Lisse, sophomore at Fordham University, is spending her summer as BMRI Summer Research Scholar in the lab. Congrats & welcome!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

5. June 2023: Karlton is joining the team – welcome!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

4. June 2023: Jacqueline presents the lab’s work on alpha-synuclein at the II. Neurodegeneration Diseases Symposium hosted by the Neurodegenerative Disease Association (Ankara, Turkey)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

26. May 2023: Virginia receives an International Congress Travel Grant Award to participate in the International Congress of Parkinson\u2019s Disease and Movement Disorders (August 27 \u2013 31 in Copenhagen, Denmark) to present her work on alpha-synuclein in the gut. Congrats!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

24. May 2023: Jack presents his work at the Appel Forum WIPS.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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16. May 2023: Shrey presents his work in the lab at his school for the Collegiate Science and Engineering Research Program.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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16. May 2023: Ari presents his work at the Neurology Resident Research Symposium.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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16. May 2023: Noah presents his work at the first European STXBP1 Summit and Research Roundtable.<\/p>\r\n

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10. May 2023: Aniv presents at the Appel Forum WIPS.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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1. May 2023: Lauren has defended her thesis today – congratulations, Dr. Komer!!!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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1. February 2023: Lauren presents at the Appel Forum WIPS.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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21. January 2023: Jacqueline talks about the lab’s work on alpha-synuclein at the Winter Conference on Brain Research in Snowbird, Utah.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

29. November 2022: Manu’s and Jacqueline’s review in TINS is accepted.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

10. October 2022: Jacqueline presents on STXBP1\/Munc18-1 at the Neuro Zoom Research Talks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

9. October 2022: Our review on the effects of alpha-synuclein on SNARE complexes has been accepted at JMB. Congrats to all co-authors!<\/p>\r\n

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3. October 2022: Congratulations, Noah! Noah has defended his thesis today :<\/p>\r\n

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29. September 2022: Congratulations, Katie! Katie has defended her thesis today \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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19. September 2022: Jacqueline gives a talk at Roche (Basel, Switzerland) about the lab’s translational efforts on alpha-synuclein.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

24. August 2022: Virginia receives a Jr. Investigator Travel Fellowship for attending “Planning for Prevention of Parkinson’s – A trial design forum”. Congrats!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

22. August 2022: Congrats to the Sharma lab and all authors for a beautiful collaboration on lysosomal exocytosis of aggregated alpha-synuclein!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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19. August 2022: Noah, Aniv and Jacqueline travel to Philadelphia to present out work on STXBP1 at the STXBP1 Summit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

18. July 2022: Manu Sharma and Jacqueline wrap up their editorial special issue with the article “Cellular and small animal models of neurodegenerative diseases” in JoVE.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

8. July 2022: Jacqueline gives a plenary lecture at the ISCCB in Hamburg, Germany on the lab’s work on Munc18-1.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

5. July 2022: Welcome, Katherine! Katherine Tsang joins the lab as rotation student.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

27. June 2022: Welcome, Shrey! Shrey Jhalani joins the lab from Collegiate High School as volunteer for the next year to work on alpha-synuclein.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

27. June 2022: Congrats, Virginia, Jack and Lauren. The review article “Functional and pathological effects of \u03b1-synuclein on synaptic SNARE complexes” in Journal of Molecular Biology has been accepted for publication as part of the special issue “Protein Membrane Interactions at the Synapse”.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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16. June 2022: Virginia and Jacqueline, together with our clinical collaborators Dr. Andrea Lee, Dr. Alexander Shtilbans and Dr. Carl Crawford, receive a CTSC Pilot Award to study alpha-synuclein in the human gut.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

15. June 2022: Lauren was awarded an NRSA F31 fellowships from NINDS to study the synaptic role of beta-synuclein. Congratulations!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

06. June 2022: Welcome, Saad! Saad starts as research technician in the lab.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

26. May 2022: Virginia presents a poster at the 4th Pan American Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Congress.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

18. May 2022: Ari and Virginia present at the 8th Annual Neurology Resident Research Symposium.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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17. May 2022: Aniv receives a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Epilepsy Society for her studies on STXBP1. Congratulations!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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15. April 2022: Manu Sharma and Jacqueline receive an MPI RF1 on the impact of beta- and gamma-synucleins on alpha-synuclein’s synaptic function.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

12. April 2022: Katie’s and Lauren’s study on the effects of beta- and gamma-synuclein on alpha-synuclein function is published in Cell Reports (https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/35417693\/<\/a>) – congrats!!!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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12. April 2022: Lauren, Virginia and Jacqueline travel to Leuven, Belgium, to the Synuclein 2022 conference. Lauren presents a poster on her just published study “Synaptic vesicle binding of \u03b1-synuclein is modulated by \u03b2- and \u03b3-synucleins” (https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/35417693\/<\/a>). Virginia gives a talk on “Early biochemical changes in alpha-synuclein in the central and enteric nervous system in Parkinson’s disease”. Jacqueline gives a plenary talk on function and dysfunction of alpha-synuclein – membranes matter!”.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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6. April 2022: Jacqueline present to the WCM Department of Neurology, Division of Neurodegenerative Diseases on the lab’s translational alpha-synuclein work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

5. April 2022: Jacqueline presents at the WCM Neurodegeneration PI meeting about Synaptopathies in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

2. April 2022: Virginia presents a poster at the AAN meeting in Seattle.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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30. March 2022: Aniv and Jacqueline host the Children’s Health Council for an update on the lab’s translational work on STXBP1 encephalopathies and a lab tour. See also: https:\/\/give.weill.cornell.edu\/childrens-health-council<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

24. February 2022: Jacqueline gives a guest lecture to students at Vanderbilt University about the lab’s translational work on Munc18-1\/STXBP1.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

23. February 2022: Jacqueline presents at the Motor Neuron Center at Columbia University on the lab’s studies on Munc18-1\/STXBP1.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

1. February 2022: Jacqueline receives funding from the MDBR Grant Program, The Orphan Disease Center, Penn Medicine for our translational studies of rescuing compounds on Munc18-1 stability in vivo in mouse models.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

31. January 2022: Jack receives a Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research from NINDS for this studies on alpha-synuclein. Congratulations, Jack!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

17. Dec 2021: Virginia receives a travel award to attend the 4th Pan American Parkinson\u2019s Disease and Movement Disorders Congress. Congratulations, Virginia!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

16. Dec 2021: Virginia receives a travel award (“Futures in Neurology Research scholarship”) to attend the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Neurology. Congratulations!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

3. Dec 2021: Virginia receives a Research Scholarship from the American Academy of Neurology. Congrats!!!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

18-19 Nov 2021: Jacqueline co-organizes the STXBP1 Roundtable 2021, and chairs the session for “Mechanisms of Disease”.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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9. Nov 2021: Jacqueline presents at the 9th Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute Symposium.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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26-27 Oct 2021: Intercampus Symposium on Aging and Neurodegeneration. Virginia presents on “Biochemical changes in alpha-synuclein in the central and enteric nervous system in Parkinson’s disease”, and Jacqueline presents on “Synucleins in aging and neurodegeneration”<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

23. Sept 2021: Virginia presents her work on alpha-synuclein mediated pathology in the CNS and ENS in Parkinson’s disease at the 2021 Postdoc research day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

19. Sept 2021: Jacqueline presents the lab’s work on small molecule therapies for STXBP1 encephalopathies at the 2021 STXBP1 Summit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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05. July 2021: Welcome, Ari! Ari starts as BMRI Research Fellow in the Burr\u00e9 lab.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

21. June 2021: Welcome, Jack! Jack starts today as Research Technician I in the Burr\u00e9 lab.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

16. June 2021: Debby present her work on Munc18-1\/STXBP1-targeted pharmacological chaperones today at the Research in Progress Seminar Series of the Molecular Biophysics Training Program.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

03. June 2021: Congratulations, Dr. Debby Abramov! Debby has defended her thesis today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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12. May 2021: Jacqueline present at the Presynaptic Dysfunction Symposium, hosted by the Journal of Neurochemistry.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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06. May 2021: Virginia receives the McGraw Fellowship in Neurology Research. The McGraw Fellow is chosen based on high-quality, compassionate, and scholarly care for patients as well as the initiative to develop a research interest that has potential to benefit patients with neurological disease.\u202f Congrats, Virginia!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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07. Apr 2021: Jacqueline receives the third R01 for her work with Dr. Jiajie Diao at the University of Cincinnati on understanding the role of VAMP2 in alpha-synuclein function and pathology.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

05. Apr 2021: Congratulations, Virginia! Virginia got promoted to Chief Resident.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

01. Apr 2021: Congratulations, Yoonmi! Yoonmi gets promoted to Research Associate for her outstanding and meticulous scientific work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

10. Mar 2021: Virginia presents her work “alpha-Synuclein in the central and enteric nervous systems in Parkinson’s disease” at the Appel Institute Forum on Neurodegeneration<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

23. Dec 2020: Virginia receives the Leon Levy Fellowship in Neuroscience. Congratulations!!!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

17. Dec 2020: Debby’s paper is out. Read at https:\/\/www.embopress.org\/doi\/full\/10.15252\/emmm.202012354<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

04. Dec 2020: Katie presents her work “Function and Dysfunction of alpha-synucleins: Membranes Matter!” during the BMRI Work in Progress Seminar series<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

11. Nov 2020: Debby’s paper is accepted in EMBO Molecular Medicine. Congratulations!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

04. Nov 2020: Jacqueline present the lab’s work on alpha-synuclein in a meeting of the Parkinson’s Disease Consortium at the Michael J. Fox Foundation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

06. Oct 2020: Congratulations, Aniv! Aniv receives the Osias and Taube Schlomiuk award for excellent PhD work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

05. Oct 2020: Jacqueline presents the lab’s work on Munc18-1 at the Biology Department Weekly Seminar at Boston University.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

22. Sept 2020: Debby, Noah, Zach and Jacqueline – Team Weill Cornell – present the recent advances on research and pilot clinical trial for children with mutations in STXBP1 at the STXBP1 Awareness Month Webinar Series.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

22. Sept 2020: Jacqueline presents the lab’s synuclein work at the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

13. Sept 2020: Aniv receives the Hebrew University Scholarship for Female Postdocs. Congratulations!!!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

01. Sept 2020: It’s STXBP1 Awareness Month! https:\/\/www.stxbp1disorders.org\/events\/september-is-stxbp1-disorders-awareness-month<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

12. Aug 2020: Virginia presents her work at the Sixth Annual Neurology Resident Research Symposium.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

03. Aug 2020: Debby receives an NRSA F30 fellowship. Congrats!!!!!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

27. Jul 2020: Lab meetings are still fun!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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20. Jul 2020: Our pilot clinical trial on the biochemical characterization of Parkinson’s disease-related proteins in the enteric nervous system is launching! https:\/\/jcto.weill.cornell.edu\/open_clinical_trials\/biochemical-characterization-of-parkinsons-disease-related-proteins-in-the-enteric-nervous-system<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

01. Jul 2020: Welcome, Aniv! Aniv Brukner starts her postdoctoral fellowship today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

30. Jun 2020: Debby’s and Noah’s review article about STXBP1 encephalopathies is accepted in The Journal of Neurochemistry – hooray!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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01. Jun 2020: Jacqueline receives NIH funding for our studies on alpha-synuclein.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

15. Apr 2020: Jacqueline receives the BMRI 2019 Mentor of the Year Award. Thank you all – what a wonderful surprise!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

14. Apr 2020: Congratulations, Lauren! Lauren has passed her ACE. Only a virtual cake because of COVID-19 shutdown \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

28. Feb 2020: Debby presents her work at the BMRI Work in Progress Seminar Series.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

25. Feb 2020: Jacqueline presents to the Molecular & Cellular Biology Program at the University of Massachussettes Amherst.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

12. Feb 2020: Debby presents her work at the Appel Institute Forum on Neurodegeneration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

10. Feb 2020: Our work with the Sharma lab is published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Congratulations, Nima! https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32042150\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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21. Jun 2019: Noah, Debby and Jacqueline present at the first STXBP1 Investigators & Family Meeting in Philadelphia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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13. Sept 2019: Congratulations, Dr. Pineda! Andr\u00e9 defended his thesis today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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04. Aug 2019: Jacqueline is invited to present at the International Society for Neurochemistry Meeting in Montreal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

13. Jun 2019: Noah receives the Markey Graduate School of Medical Science Fellowship. Congratulations!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

05. Apr 2019: Jacqueline presents her work to the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

20. Mar 2019: Jacqueline presents our work on Munc18-1 to the Biology Department at St. Johns University.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

15. Jan 2019: Jacqueline receives funding from the Michael J. Fox Foundation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

13. Nov 2018: Welcome, Lauren! Lauren Komer starts her rotation in the Burr\u00e9 lab.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

29. Oct 2018: Welcome, Nicole! Nicole Moll\u00e9 starts her rotation in the lab<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

19. Oct 2018: Congrats, Debby, for passing your ACE!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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02. Oct 2018: Jacqueline presents to the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program at the University of Arizona on our Munc18-1 studies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

28. Sept 2018: Noah’s & Andr\u00e9’s paper is published in Nature Communications – congrats! https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30266908\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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06. Aug 2018: Welcome, Yoonmi! Yoonmi Na starts as research specialist. We are all very excited!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

19. Jul 2018: Jacqueline and Virginia present to the Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates to recruit patients for their human studies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

02. Jul 2018: Welcome, Victoria! Victoria von Saucken joins the Burr\u00e9 lab as rotation student.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

30. May 2018: Katie receives the Markey Graduate School of Medical Science Fellowship. Congratulations!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

20. Apr 2018: Noah presents his work at the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute Work in Progress Seminar Series. Awesome job, Noah!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

18. Jan 2018: Noah presents his work at PINS.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

19. Jul 2017: Congrats, Katie, for passing your ACE!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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03. Jul 2017: Welcome, Debby! Debby Abramov starts her rotation today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

15. Feb 2017: Congrats, Noah, for passing your ACE!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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26. Jan 2016: Our invited commentary is published in PNAS. https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/28126719\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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20. Dec 2016: Jacqueline receives the Sanofi Innovation Award-<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

16. Nov 2016: Noah, Andr\u00e9 and Katie present their work at the 2016 SfN in San Diego.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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05. Oct 2016: Jacqueline presents at the Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute Symposium on “Function and Dysfunction of alpha-synuclein – Membranes matter”.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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From left to right: Dr. Iadecola, Dr. Holtzman, Dr. Haeberlein, Dr. Choi, Mr. Appel, Dr. Petsko, and Dr. Burr\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

08. Jun 2016: Congrats, Andr\u00e9, for passing your ACE!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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23. May 2016: Jacqueline presents to the Scientific Advisory Board of the American Parkinson Disease Association.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

06. May 2016: Jacqueline presents at the AbbVie Pharma Day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

21. Apr 2016: Noah presents his work at the du Vigneaud Research Symposium.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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19. Apr 2016: Jacqueline presents at the Burke Medical Research Institute.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

13. Mar 2016: Neuroscience Retreat at Ocean Grove.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Faculty roast, socks, and alpha-synuclein, and simple madness\u2026<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

01. Feb 2016: Welcome, Katie! Kathryn Carnazza starts her rotation in the Burr\u00e9 lab.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

17. Dec 2015: Departmental Holiday party at Hi-Life Restaurant & Lounge.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Food, drinks & fun.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

04. Dec 2015: Jacqueline presents at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society in Philadelphia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The committee was so excited about our work, that they selected our work not only for a poster presentation, but additionally for the Investigators\u2019 Workshop poster session, highlighting the most outstanding abstracts on topics related to basic science and clinical research, and for a platform presentation talk.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

24. Nov 2015: Thanksgiving potluck.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The 10th floor of the Belfer building celebrates.<<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

14. Oct 2015: John receives the 2015 Irene & Eric Simon Brain Research Foundation Fellowship at the 2015 Lunch & Learn Event in the Chrysler Building.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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All five selected fellows present their summer research in presence of their mentors and foundation members: <\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00b7 Dr. Bhatnagar & Jane Dobkin from Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia
\u00b7 Dr. Burr\u00e9 & John Messinger from Weill Cornell Medical College
\u00b7 Dr. Norris & Esther Putman from University of Kentucky
\u00b7 Dr. Recio-Pinto & Jonathan Pun from NYUMC
\u00b7 Dr. Serganov & Shivali Patel from NYUMC<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

01. Oct 2015: Jacqueline gives the Progress in Neuroscience Seminar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

21. Sept 2015: Welcome, Parinati! Parinati Kharel starts at Research Specialist.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

14. Sept 2015: Welcome, Noah! Noah joins the Burr\u00e9 lab for his first rotation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

01. Sept 2015: Jacqueline receives a research grant from the American Parkinson Disease Association.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

18. Aug 2015: Jacqueline talks at the Epilepsy Conference, Weill Cornell Medicine about “Synaptic dysfunction in infantile epileptic encephalopathies”.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

27. Jul 2015: Welcome, Andr\u00e9! Andr\u00e9 Pineda joins the Burr\u00e9 lab for a rotation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

30. Jun 2015: Jacqueline presents at the Parkinson’s Disease Gordon Research Conference. https:\/\/www.grc.org\/programs.aspx?id=16890<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

26. Jun 2015: Jacquelines gives the BMRI seminar. \u201cSynaptic dysfunction of Munc18-1 in infantile epileptic encephalopathies\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

07. Apr 2015: BMRI\/Neuroscience Graduate Retreat in Ocean Grove.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Science plus other fun stuff<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

01. Feb 2015: Jacqueline receives the Leon Levy Fellowship in Neuroscience.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

01. Jan 2015: Jacqueline receives a grant from the American Epilepsy Society.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

01. Sep 2014: Welcome, Zhao! Zhao joins the lab as postdoctoral fellow.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

04. Aug 2014: Welcome, Jackie! Jackie Gottshall joins the lab as rotation student.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

19. Jun 2014: Welcome, John! John Messinger joins the lab for a summer internship.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

01. Feb 2014: The Burr\u00e9 lab is born \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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