08/07/2024 So pleased to have Dr. Rakez Kayed from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston visit us! He gave a fabulous talk on toxic tau oligomers in AD, DLB, and PSP as well as specific tau antibody immunotherapy on tau mouse model at August Monthly ARCOE Meeting. Thanks so much for sharing your excellent work with us, Rakez!
07/24/2024 Our collaborative paper with Dr. Ruth Barrientos’s lab, entitled “Short-term high fat diet impairs memory, exacerbates the neuroimmune response, and evokes synaptic degradation via a complement-dependent mechanism in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease”, has been published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity!
07/11/2024 Our collaborative paper with Dr. Qin Ma’s lab, entitled “Enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks inference from single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq data”, has been accepted for publication in Briefings in Bioinformatics!
07/10/2024 Marie-Amandine Bonte will join the Fu lab as a Postdoc starting 07/15/2024. Welcome to the team, Marie-Amandine!
07/10/2024 Nick graduated from OSU Neuroscience Program and was promoted to Research Senior Technician! Well deserved, Nick! Excited to have you continue working with us!
05/26-29/2024 Tae Yeon, Nick, and Harry attended the ISMND 2024 Conference in Seoul, Korea. They presented three posters in the conference and had a great time in Seoul!
05/21/2024 The paper titled “A Single-cell and Spatial RNA-seq Database for Alzheimer’s Disease (ssREAD)” has been officially accepted for publication in Nature Communications! This is a great teamwork between the Fu lab and Dr. Qin Ma’s lab. Cankun (Ma lab) and Diana (Fu lab) led this study. Congratulations, Cankun and Diana!
05/08/2024 Nithin won the Second-Year Transformational Experience Program (STEP) fellowship to continue the research project in the Fu lab during this summer! Congratulations, Nithin!
05/03/2024 Fu lab attended the 2024 OSU DNS Research Day. Tae Yeon gave a fantastic talk and won the second best Graduate student poster award! Sheeny also gave a great presentation of her poster. Congratulations!
05/01/2024 So happy to have Dr. Lea Grinberg from UCSF visit us! She gave a fantastic talk on sleep dysfunction in AD and PSP at May Monthly ARCOE Meeting. Thanks so much for sharing your insightful work with us, Lea!
04/18/2024 The Fu lab received a 2024 OSU Chronic Brain Injury (CBI) Pilot Award to study the PLCG2 AD variants using human neural organoid model integrated with microglia. Thanks Tae Yeon, Diana, and Nick’s great contribution to this exciting project! Also, thank CBI so much for funding this proposal.
04/16/2024 Congratulations Jia on being selected to receive an Access to Neuroscience Research Experience (ANRE) fellowship for the summer of 2024 from the Neuroscience Undergraduate Program! Look forward to working with you this summer.
04/11/2024 Diana, Tae Yeon and Harry attended the 2024 OSU COM Research Day. Diana and Tae Yeon gave a great presentation of their posters. Well done!
04/10/2024 Tae Yeon’s Abstract was selected as a talk at the Department of Neuroscience Research Day on May 3, 2024. Congratulations, Tae Yeon!
03/26/2024 Undergraduate Neuroscience student, Jia Kang Xie, joined Fu lab. Welcome, Jia!
03/07-08/2024 Nick, Tae Yeon and Sheeny attended the 2024 CBI Research Day. Nick gave a fantastic talk and his poster was selected for the best UG poster award! Tae Yeon and Sheeny also gave a great presentation of their posters. Very proud of you guys’ great achievements, especially during my absence.
03/05-09/2024 Diana and Harry attended the AD/PD 2024 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Diana received the Junior Faculty Award and gave a terrific talk. Congrats, Diana! Our PLCG2 poster also received good attention from the attendees.
02/28/2024 James’ application to the 2024 Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP) has been accepted. He will lead a project during this summer. Congratulations, James!
02/23/2024 Nick’s abstract has been selected for a short talk, and Tae Yeon and Sheeny’s abstracts were accepted for Posters at the 2024 CBI Research Day on March 7-8, 2024. Congratulations, Nick, Tae Yeon, and Sheeny! Well done!
02/07/2024 Undergraduate Neuroscience student, Jacob Henry, joined Fu lab. Welcome, Jacob!
01/16/2024 Sheeny graduated from OSU Neuroscience and continues to work in Fu lab as a Research Technician. Congrats, Sheeny! Happy to continue working with you for another year.
11/10-15/2023 Diana, Tae Yeon, and Nick attended SFN 2023 with three great Posters in Washington, DC. Well done!
10/27/2023 Fu lab attended 2023 OSU NRI Annual Retreat with three great presentations from Diana, Nick and Tae Yeon to show their teamwork. Also, Diana won a Seed Grant Award, and Nick won an Oral Presentation Award! Congrats, Diana, Nick and Tae Yeon!
10/16/2023 Diana won the Junior Faculty Award for the 18th International Conference on Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Diseases and related neurological disorders (AD/PDTM 2024). She will give a talk at AD/PD 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. Amazing news! Many congratulations on another big achievement, Diana!
10/06/2023 Undergraduate Neuroscience student, James Xiao, joined Fu lab. Welcome, James!
10/04/2023 Diana’s SfN abstract has been selected out of the almost 300 abstract submissions as one of the winners of the SfN Travel Grant 2023 sponsored by Proteintech Group, Inc. Congrats, Diana!
10/04/2023 Harry Fu gave a talk in Department of Developmental Neurobiology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.
9/28/2023 Nick’s Abstract has been selected for another Oral Presentation at OSU NRI Retreat on Oct 27th, 2023. Congrats, Nick!
9/26-27/2023 Harry Fu was selected by the Rainwater Charitable Foundation and attended the Tauopathy Challenge Workshop in Chicago.
8/29/2023 Nick has been selected as a recipient of a 2023 Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). He will give a talk at SFN in Washington DC. Many congratulations on another big achievement, Nick!
8/04/2023 Taylor Henoch had a great Poster presentation today at the Explorations in Neuroscience Internship Program Poster Session. Well done and good luck with college application, Taylor!
7/10/2023 Dr. Jinshan He joined Fu lab as a Research Scientist today. Welcome, Jinshan!
7/6/2023 Undergraduate Neuroscience student, Harshitha Vathyam, joined Fu lab. Welcome, Harshitha!
6/26/2023 Taylor Henoch was selected by 2023 OSU DNS High School Camp to continue 7-week-intern in Fu lab. Congrats and welcome, Taylor!
6/23/2023 Our proposal titled High-throughput screening of FDA-approved drug collection that enhances WFS1 against Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias has been selected to receive a 2023 President’s Research Excellence (PRE) Accelerator award, OSU. Thanks everyone in Fu lab for your hard work and great contributions! Thanks our collaborators, Drs. Blake Peterson, Meng Wu, and Dario Palmieri for their great support! Congratulations!
6/8/2023 Diana received a 2023 NRI Seed Grant Award to continue her Postdoc study on tau and lipid dyshomeostasis. Congratulations, Diana! Well deserved!
6/8/23-6/9/2023 Nick and Tae Yeon hosted 2023 OSU DNS High School Neuroscience Camp. Well done!
6/5/2023 Undergraduate Neuroscience students, Ethan Rose, Ana Clapper, Mia Mixon, joined Fu lab. Welcome, Ethan, Ana and Mia!
5/5/2023 Fu lab attended 2023 OSU DNS Research Day. Nick won the Best Undergraduate Poster Award! Congrats, Nick!
4/20/2023 Undergraduate Neuroscience student, Vo Sheeny, joined Fu lab. Welcome, Sheeny!
4/5/2023 Fu lab received a 2023 OSU Chronic Brain Injury (CBI) Pilot Award titled “Characterize neuronal vulnerability and plasma lipidomic profiling of novel humanized tau mouse models”. Thanks Tae Yeon, Diana, and Nick for your great contributions to this project.
2/1/2023 Nick received a 2023 Chronic Brain Injury Program (CBI) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) award! Congratulations, Nick! We are very proud of you!
12/07/2022 Undergraduate Neuroscience student, Nithin Datla, joined Fu lab. Welcome, Nithin!
Media reports:
https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/mediaroom/pressreleaselisting/ohio-state-develops-searchable-database-for-alzheimers-research
https://medicine.osu.edu/news/alzheimers-disease-research
https://medicine.osu.edu/news/brain-neurons-are-vulnerable-to-degeneration
http://www.columbianeuroresearch.org/taub/res-taub-connect-3-2022.html
https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/mediaroom/pressreleaselisting/study-shows-one-type-of-brain-cell-may-invite-alzheimers
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/neurons-good-housekeeping-are-protected-alzheimers