Simon Arvin has been awarded this years Health Student Research Price at the Health PhD day dinner party on 24 January. The prize is awarded to a student that Health wishes to recognise as someone who have submitted extraordinary work. Congratulations!

Saida will focus on studies concerning structural and functional mechanism of the GABA transporter subtype one by combining electrophysiological, fluorescence-based methods and unnatural amino acid mutagenesis. The role of the GABAergic system in mental disorders in general and in depression in particular is gaining momentum. Structural information about the GABA transporter and knowledge of how ligand and ion binding control conformational change can provide the basis for developing drugs that target it

Katia Soud has been working as a research assistant in Tomonori Takeuchi group since July 2019, following to receiving the AU PhD fellowship, she will start her PhD project on the 1st of February under the supervision of Tomonori Takeuchi, the project will answer questions about the mechanisms of dopaminergic memory retention by the locus coeruleus-hippocampus circuit and how novel environments play a role in this process. She will be using newly developed sensors to detect Dopamine release, opticphotometry imaging, and memory tests in rats.

Karren Marie started as PhD student in Anders Nykjær’s group on 1 January 2020. She will be working on unravelling the function of VPS10P domain receptors in communication between glia cells and neurons in memory formation.

Gene Transfer in Rodent Nervous Tissue Following Hindlimb Intramuscular Delivery of Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Serotypes AAV2/6, AAV2/8, and AAV2/9