Kwakye on dopaminergic cell model of Parkinson's; Moore publishes on carnivorous caryophyllales

New publications from Gunner Kwakye, Neuroscience and Michael Moore, Biology. Student co-authors (now alumni) include Weelic Chong, Jessica Jimenez and Jessica Mikenas.

Chong, Weelic, Jessica Jimenez, Matthew McIIvin, Mak A. Saito, and Gunnar F. Kwakye. 2017. Alpha-synuclein enhances cadmium uptake and neurotoxicity via oxidative stress and caspase activated cell death mechanisms in a dopaminergic cell model of Parkinson's disease. Neurotoxicity Research 32, no. 2: 231-246.  Online access for subscribers

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Walker, Joseph F., Ya Yang, Michael J. Moore, Jessica Mikenas, Alfonso Timoneda, Samuel F. Brockington, and Stephen A. Smith. 2017. Widespread paleopolyploidy, gene tree conflict, and recalcitrant relationships among the carnivorous caryophyllales. American Journal of Botany 104, no. 6: 858-867.  Open Access article