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Ashley Frakes
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Stadtman tenure-track investigator @NIH. Previously, Post-doc @UCBerkeley in @DillinLab. PhD @OSU @Nationwidekids in Kaspar lab. Opinions are my own &can change
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/staff-directory/biography/frakes-ashley
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🚨Please share! We are hiring a post-doc! 🪱 🐀
Job posting: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-gb-...
Lab Website: www.niddk.nih.gov/research-fun...
NIH Trainee info: www.training.nih.gov
September 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.
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April 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Excited to share another pre-print from our lab! We found a neuropeptide that can cell non-autonomously activate the ER-UPR and protect animals from proteotoxic stress.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Happy to share a recent pre-print from our lab!
Parental origin of transgene determines recombination efficiency in GFAP-CreERT2 mice
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Parental origin of transgene determines recombination efficiency in GFAP-creERT2 mice
The Cre-loxP system is a powerful tool for spatial and temporal genetic manipulations. However, the system is prone to several limitations and caveats with respect to variable expression and recombina...
www.biorxiv.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM