Not exact matches
Within the category of
Physiology and Medicine, the recipients are Science authors John O'Keefe, May - Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of
cells that constitute a positioning system in the
brain.
It is already known that mammals have
brain cells that signal the direction that they are currently facing, a discovery that formed part of the 2014 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine to UCL Professor John O'Keefe.
Prof. Kathleen Cullen and her PhD student Jess Brooks of the Dept of
Physiology have been able to identify a distinct and surprisingly small cluster of
cells deep within the
brain that react within milliseconds to readjust our movements when something unexpected happens, whether it is slipping on ice or hitting a rock when skiing.
This study, led by Garret D. Stuber, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and
cell biology &
physiology, and Jenna A. McHenry, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in Stuber's lab, identified a hormone - sensitive circuit in the
brain that controls social motivation in female mice.
Howard University
physiology professor Mark Burke says the idiosyncratic way Harvey cut up the
brain makes it hard to study, even with unbiased, state - of - the - art
cell - counting techniques.
A key advantage to this opsin is that it could enable optogenetic studies of animals with larger
brains, says Garret Stuber, an assistant professor of psychiatry and
cell biology and
physiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He's one of the world's leading researchers in neurobiology, which looks at the
brain and nervous system of animals and humans in terms of its anatomy and
physiology (i.e., its
cells and tissues, and the way they function and are organized).
It has two compartments, one to grow blood vessel
cells in and another for cultured
brain cells, mimicking the
physiology of the BBB.
The researchers, led by Dr. David Vaillancourt, a professor of applied
physiology and kinesiology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, used a form of MRI that differentiates between water contained in
brain cells and «free» water outside of
cells.
He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise
physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of
Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a
cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.