Category Archives: People

TCE and Parkinson’s

This post introduces a new twist to “News Behind the Neuroscience News”. This report was graciously submitted by Ms Pamela Brown of associatesdegree.com. I welcome her initiative in submitting this. On a side note, when I did factory work in the 1970s, trichloroethylene was a universal solvent used to clean parts. Wow. We will add [...]

Featuring Dr. Pat Carr

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-New Twists on Root Causes

Teacher, Mentor and Friend    Dr. Pat Carr has been a key figure in helping shape the direction of my company. He has a gift for communicating the nuances of his research and coaching me on how to best serve labs like his. Based on these interactions, it came as no surprise [...]

Gary Johnson-Apoptosis Ace

About Gray
1994-present-President, ICT
1993-1996-Conjugation Chemist, R&D Systems
19989-1993-Supervisor Protein Conjugation & ELISA Development Group, Solvay Animal Health
1986-1989-Immunologists, Biosciences Lab, 3M
1976-1986-Various Lab, U of MN
Gary’s Conatct Info:

gary@immunochemistry.com

952-888-8788  

 

Inventing Better Ways to Measure Apoptosis 
This profile features another Scientist Entrepreneur. Dr Gary Johnson is the Founder and President of Immunochemistry Technologies LLC (ICT). His company manufactures kits that have the [...]

Primary Neurons Culturing Expertise

I recently featured Dr. Evanna Gleason.  As part of this, we highlighted her lab’s epertise in culturing our E18 Primary Rat Hippocampal Neurons. 
I recently received impressive data and protocols from Emily Mcmains, a lab member.
Please note the excellent image of the cells 1 week after culturing and images taken after 4 days.
Hippocampal Neurons Protocol
Courtesy [...]

Featuring Dr. Evanna Gleason

 Spotlighting How Retinal Neurons Communicate

About Dr. Evanna Gleason
Background:
1996-Current-Associate Professor, LSU
1993-1996-Post Doc, UC San Diego
1991-1992-Post Doc, UC Davis-Wilson Lab
1990 Ph. D- UC San Diego
1984 Undergrad-ASU

How do neurons communicate across synapses? Finding answers to this is of central interest to many of our customers and colleagues. After all, it is the transmission of signals across synapses that collectively orchestrate [...]

March Profile-Dr. Evanna Gleason

Coming soon…Now for something completely different…Synaptic Transmission Research.
I am pleased to be featuring Dr. Evanna Gleason.  I selected her because She and her team’s research is a basic component of most areas  Neuroscience Research including pain, neurodegeneration, vision, TBI, SCI, drug addiction, neuro-disorders and more…This base component is how neurons communicate with other cells at synapses. 
She focuses on synaptic transmission [...]

The Quest for Better Pain Therapies

G- protein coupled receptor (GPCR) and Drug Responsiveness

About Dr. Laura Bohn 
 Background:
Spring 2009-Associate Professor (tenured) at The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular Therapeutics, Jupiter, FL.
10/2007- Associate Professor (tenured), The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, Program in Pharmacogenomics

8/2003-9/2007 Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University College of Medicine,
1/1999–8/2003 Post-Doc/Assistant Research Professor. [...]

Featuring Dr. Laura Bohn

January’s Story: Decoupling GPCR Pain Therapies from Destructive Side Effects. 
We are pleased to have Dr. Laura Bohn as our “coming soon” featured researcher. 
She caught my attention when she referenced one of our  Opioid Receptor Antibodies in the publication: C. E. Groer, K. Tidgewell, R. A. Moyer, W. W. Harding, R. B. Rothman, T. E. Prisinzano, and L. M. Bohn. An [...]

Isolating and Maintaining Embryonic Stem Cells

I have featured Steve Stice and his team at ArunA Biomedical and UGA. They are pioneers in developing Embryonic Stem Cell Based Cultures and Assays for Drug Discovery and Basic Research. Given the importance of their work, I am commited to keeping my finger on the pulse of their advances and discoveries.
Here they isolate, and maintain in [...]

Making Connections that Count

Building Neuroscience Value Networks
For this month’s backstory, I am excited to introduce Dr. Ijad Madisch and the Networking Site he founded, ResearchGATE corporation (www.researchgate.net). 
Madisch, 27, an M.D. and Ph.D. virologist, says he and some friends came up with the idea when he moved from his native Germany for a research traineeship at Harvard Medical School in [...]