The lab’s first paper exploring pesticides and ALS will be published in ACS Neurochemistry and has been selected to be featured as an ACS Editors’ Choice article! Article info below:
The ALS-Associated Persistent Organic Pollutant cis-Chlordane Causes GABAA Independent Toxicity to Motor Neurons Providing Evidence Toward an Environmental Component of Sporadic ALS
Authors:
Daniel Kulick1, Emily Moon1, R. Madison Riffe2, Gregory Teicher2, Simon Van Deursen3, Aaron Berson4, Wu He5, Gloster Aaron1, Gerald B. Downes6, Stephen Devoto4, Alison O’Neil7*
Author Affiliations:
1 Biology Department, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA
2 Neuroscience and Behavior Graduate Program, Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
3 Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA
4 Biology Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA
5 University of Connecticut Flow Cytometry Core, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA, wu.he@uconn.edu
6 Neuroscience and Behavior Graduate Program, Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA, gbdownes@umass.edu
7 Chemistry Department, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA, aoneil@weslyan.edu,