2015
- June 2015 Sharmila joins the lab to start an undergraduate research project! Welcome, Sharmila!
- May 2015 Paper alert! Mingxuan's paper on Ankyrin-G is published by the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
- May 2015 Nishtha, Bao and Angel present at ADD Program Symposium in Salt Lake City, UT.
- March 2015 The Cooper Lab receives grants from Jack Pribaz Foundation and CURE.
- March 2015 Mingxuan attends and presents at Experimental Biology conference in Boston, MA.
- February 2015 Ed meets with and presents to the Board of Directors of the Jack Pribaz Foundation in Chicago, IL.
2014
- December 2014 Bao, Nishtha, Mia and Ed attend American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting in Seattle WA. Ed leads collaborators meeting on KCNQ2 Epileptic Encephalopathy: Overcoming Hurdles to Effective Disease Modifying Therapy
- March 2014 The Cooper Lab hosts KCNQ2 family visits in Houston. See coverage by NBC Houston, NBC Chicago, NBC Denver, and Jack's Army Blog.
- March 2014 Paper Alert! KCNQ2/3 channel collaboration with Kole Lab published as featured article by the Journal of Neuroscience. (View article.)
2013
- December 2013 KCNQ2 spectrum investigator's workshop moderated by Dr. Cooper presented at American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting in Washington DC.
- September 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.
- July 2013 Dr. Cooper, Dr. Li and the Pribaz Foundation featured in BCM Family article, BCM doctor’s collaboration with family helps patients with severe form of epilepsy.
- June 2013 Zhigang Ji joins the lab! (See Zhigang's cool and highly accessed optogenetics pager.)
- May 2013 Post-bac Angel Lopez will enter prestigious Baylor College of Medicine's Genetics Ph.D. Program. Congratulations Angel and thanks to fantastic SMART PREP program faculty!
- February 2013 Dr. Cooper awarded $1.7M NIH/NINDS grant to study KCNQ2-related epilepsy and symptomatic neonatal seizures.
- January 2013 Baylor College of Medicine's student Baouyen Tran receives a EF predoctoral fellowship with support from AES and the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation to study KCNQ2 mutations in the lab.
2012
- December 2012 Post Doc Li Li Joins the lab. Welcome Li!
- December 2012 Lab and RIKEE collaborators present accepted LATE-BREAKING abstracts at AES San Diego
- December 2012 Lab and Baylor Epilepsy Research Center hosts Pribaz Foundation and Miles Family Fund for Retreat