February 2012

Lina Wang - new postdoctoral fellow - joins the lab. Lina was a student in Anthony Brown's lab (Ohio  State).
New paper - "Effects of soluble amyloid-beta oligomers on axonal transport" in Traffic. 

January 2012: New R01 grant from NINDS (NIH) 

Initial submission - Oct 2010, revised - June 2011, awarded - Jan 2012.

January 2012: New paper in Nature Protocols

A simple photoactivation and image-analysis module for visualizing and analyzing axonal transport with  high temporal resolution. Roy S, Yang Ge, Tang Y and Scott D. (2011). Nature Protocols. January 2011.

Nanosymposium presentations at SFN, Nov 2011 Washington DC

One on synuclein pathobiology, and one on APP/BACE1 trafficking. 

June 2011: New grant from AFAR

"New Investigator in Alzheimer's disease" grant from American Federation for Aging Research

May 2011: New paper in Neuron

Submitted Sept 2010, two revisions, accepted March 2011.

March 2011: David presented at ASNeurochemistry meeting, St Louis


Timeline of events before 2011----------------------------------------------------------

January 2010: Basil O'Conner grant from March of Dimes

April 2009: Project, UCSD ADRC P50 (NIH)

November 2008: Research grant, American Parkinson’s Disease Association 

July 2008: New Investigator research grant, Alzheimer’s association 

January 2008: Start-up grant from Larry Hillblom Foundation

January 2008: Lab founded