molecular neuropharmacology
THE COOPER LABORATORY
LIFE IN THE LAB:
NEWS AND EVENTS
Mar 2014
The Cooper Lab hosts KCNQ2 family visits in Houston. See coverage by NBC Houston,
NBC Chicago, NBC Denver, and Jack's Army's blog.
Mar 2014
Paper Alert! KCNQ2/3 channel collaboration with Kole Lab published as featured article by the
Journal of Neuroscience. (Link)
Dec 2013
KCNQ2 spectrum investigator's workshop moderated by Dr. Cooper presented at American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting in Washington DC.
Sep 2013
Dr. Cooper, Dr. Li and the Dr. Xu awarded grant to support new Q2 encephalopathy treatment
research and animal models. Thanks to Rock the Block and CURE
Jul 2013
Dr. Cooper, Dr. Li and the Pribaz Foundation featured in BCM Family article (Link)
Jun 2013
Zhigang Ji joins the lab! (See Zhigang's cool and highly accessed optogenetics paper here)
May 2013
Post-bac Angel Lopez will enter prestigious BCM Genetics PhD program. Congratulations Angel and thanks to fantastic SMART PREP program faculty!
Feb 2013
Dr. Cooper awarded $1.7M NIH/NINDS grant to study KCNQ2-related epilepsy and symptomatic neonatal seizures.
Jan 2013
Student Baouyen Tran BCM receives a EF predoctoral fellowship with support from AES and the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation to study KCNQ2 mutations in the lab (Link)
Dec 2012
Post Doc Li Li Joins the lab. Welcome Li!
Dec 2012
Lab and RIKEE collaborators presents accepted LATE-BREAKING abstracts at AES San Diego
Dec 2012
Lab and BCM Epilepsy Research Center hosts Pribaz Foundation and Miles Family Fund for Retreat