In a recent article about Innovation Awards offered by the Carney Institute for Brain Science entitled "Return on a decade of innovation investment", collaborations between the Kaun, O'Connor-Giles and Larschan lab were featured: "Gene regulatory networks in circuit development and plasticity: Back-to-back awards in 2018 and 2019 created a brain science supergroup: behavioral neurogeneticist Karla Kaun, synapse and gene-editing expert Kate O’Connor-Giles and genome expert Erica Larschan. The trio investigate how hundreds of genes and the instructions they contain work to form and modify synapses, the places where neurons connect and communicate. The group was awarded two highly competitive NIH grants to conduct this work, and more applications are in the works. So far, their discoveries have increased understanding of the underpinnings of addiction and certain intellectual disabilities."
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