This month’s featured researcher is Dr. Courtney Babbitt. Courtney is an Associate Professor in the Biology Department. Her lab studies gene regulation with a particular focus on primate brain evolution. She has two publications already this year, one in the journal eLife, titled, “Tempo and mode of gene expression evolution in the brain across primates“, shows variations in gene expression in humans and chimps that correlate with brain size. The other paper, published in Genome Biology and Evolution, shows that human and chimp astrocytes have contributed greatly to glucose metabolism in humans.
Here’s what else is new for ‘ ”University of Massachusetts” AND Amherst AND neuroscience’ in PubMed. These publications appeared online in February. They are just a fraction of the neuroscience research that occurs on campus. You can click on the PubMed ID to find the publication.
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