Dr. Srivatsan presents research in D.C.

Date Released: 2006-07-31

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Dr. Malathi Srivatsan presented research titled “Extracellular Acetylcholinesterase is Neurotrophic to Somatosensory Neurons of Rat” at the Biennial National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Excellence organized by National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C. earlier this month. In addition, her undergraduate research associate, Jonathan Treece, won a competitive travel award from the faculty for undergraduate neuroscience to attend the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience to be held in Atlanta. Treece will present his research titled, “Specific cytokines are synthesized and released by sympathetic neurons in cell culture.”