Today we welcome Sanket Chiplunkar into the Neumann lab. Sanket joins us as a PhD student and will be focused on Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. More specifically, he will be studying the function of the mitochondrial outer membrane protein Mitofusin 2, as well as identifying drugs for combatting CMT2A, which is caused by mutations in Mitofusin 2.

You can find more information on Sanket, on his page here.

Welcome Sanket!!

Brent is attending the 2018 ANS meeting in Brisbane from Dec 3-6.

Brent is presenting a talk at the meeting as part of a successful symposium submission (titled Degeneration or Regeneration, Choice After Axon Injury) that is entitled "MEC-17/ATAT1 is essential for maintaining neuronal integrity and nervous system repair".

He will also be chairing Oral session 3: Neurodegeneration 1.

As a new member of the ANS Media and communications sub-committee, and the new ANS newsletter co-editor, Brent is attending the ANS Council Meeting, and the ANS AGM.

Photos from Brent's symposium session are here below: