Biederer Lab

Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year! We had fun celebrating our lab tradition of making Glühwein before the holidays. A great way of revisiting the past year in research and appreciating the good work everyone is doing.

Excited about our funding from ASAP! Our team investigates the synaptic and neuronal basis of cognitive impairments in Parkinson’s disease. Great to joint efforts with Mike Higley and Elena Gracheva at Yale, Laura Volpicelli-Daley at UAB, and Mike Henderson at Van Andel.

April is #parkinsonsawarenessmonth, an opportunity to highlight why we study this disorder. With support from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s Initiative @ASAP_Research, our team investigates cortical aberrations relevant to cognitive impairments patients can experience.

We're excited that Dayana Pérez-Acuña joins our group as a postdoc to study cortical aberrations in Parkinson's disease. Her curiosity about synapse biology makes for a perfect start. Celebrating her arrival from Seoul in New Haven style over pizza.

Congratulations to Dhrubajyoti Chowdhury on becoming a group leader! He's off to Hyderabad to return to his native India and lead his lab at the GITAM Institute. We wish you all the best! Dhruba's farewell dinner was a great time to celebrate his success.

Really enjoyed visiting the Institute for Protein Innovation in Boston and discussing the development of targeted antibody tools for synapse biology. They have impressive capacities and a mission to advance protein studies! We developed stimulating ideas x.com/ipiproteins/st…

This for account followers in Germany - the Tagesschau (it doesn't get more venerable than that in German news) reported about our most recent work on bioactive compound effects on synaptic connectivity. Pretty blown away by the strong media interest @tagesschau/110908720189934363" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ard.social/@tagesschau/11…

Are you a postdoc in any area of neuroscience preparing for the next career step? Then apply to present at our Yale SYNAPSES seminar series and expand your network! We welcome a diverse group of neurobiologists. The deadline is September 5. apply.interfolio.com/128175

A big shoutout to Erica Israel and Nikita Patil from our Boston lab in the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging! Exciting contributions to the American Society for Nutrition meeting. Also great to see how much interest our session on Nutrition for the Aging Brain received.

Micronutrients and synapse biology are linked! Our results reveal that the human milk sugar myo-inositol promotes how nerve cells form connections, including human neurons. Our partners at Mead Johnson Nutrition/Reckitt provided the lead. See PNAS article doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2….

Our new study on the functional cooperation of synapse-organizing proteins is published! biederer.org/2023/01/28/our…

Food for the Brain Deep Dive Workshop biederer.org/2022/09/28/foo…

Bioactive compounds can have a profound impact on synaptic connectivity and cognition. Excited to chair the ‘Food for the Brain’ session today at the American Society for Nutrition meeting to discuss these topics! cdmcd.co/5mQd7r #NutritionLiveOnline #NUTRITION2022

Our nutritional neuroscience lab at the HNRCA takes shape, thanks to Erica biederer.org/2021/12/28/our…

Glühwein for the Holidays biederer.org/2021/12/22/glu…

Katie takes her next career step in neurodegeneration research biederer.org/2021/12/01/kat…

ASAP funds our team to investigate cortical dysfunction in Parkinson’s! biederer.org/2021/10/30/asa…

Celebrating Katie and her graduation biederer.org/2021/09/29/cel…