News
We welcome Mia Lin Amato and Jeffrey Hung to the lab! Check out the People page to learn more about them.
Additionally, the lab just put out its first big set of data, available now on BioRxiv! In this work, we describe a central mechanism that drives the blunting of circadian glucocorticoid rhythms in breast cancer. Stay tuned for the full paper!
Our lab is getting back into the swing of things after a wildly successful SFN 2022 experience, where we presented 4 posters, all on unpublished work going on in the lab.
Francis N, Borniger JC. Identifying the role of sleep deprivation in anti-tumor immunity. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2022
Berisha A, Borniger JC. Role of locus coeruleus noradrenergic neurons in breast cancer progression. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2022
Gomez AM, Berisha A, Boyd L, Kaufmann AM, Borniger JC. Identifying central mechanisms of glucocorticoid circadian rhythm dysfunction in breast cancer. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2022
Wu Y, Borniger JC. Lateral proteome transfer between sensory neurons and breast cancer. Society for Neuroscience Annaul Meeting 2022
Postdoc May Wu and Technician Adrian Berisha published a review on neuropeptides in cancer - check it out here!
Lab members Adrian Berisha and Kyle Shutkind published their article “Sleep disruption and Cancer: Chicken or the Egg” in Frontiers in Neuroscience !
Our collaborative Department of Defense Idea Development Award was funded. This project is titled “Neuronal function and incurable prostate cancer”, and is a strong joint effort between our lab and Lloyd Trotman’s group at CSHL.
Our grant entitled “Defining the role of sleep in cancer immunity and metabolism” has been selected for funding from the STARR Cancer Consortium. This work is a collaborative effort between the Borniger, Janowitz, Lukey, and Engel labs at CSHL in tandem with clinical researchers Evan Noch, Anna Krieger, and Marcus Goncalves at Weill-Cornell Medicine!
Our grant entitled “Neural circuit mechanisms of stress-induced insomnia and metabolic dysfunction” has been funded by the Department of Defense!
Our lab’s first (review) paper is now published in Trends in Neurosciences, an effort spearheaded by postdoc Nikita Francis. Check out the paper here.
Our paper entitled “Peripheral lipopolysaccharide rapidly silences REM-Active LH-GABA neurons” is now published at Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Check it out here!
A collaborative paper with Dr. Jose Otero’s lab at The Ohio State University uses machine learning/AI approaches to uncover subtle differences between genotypes in plethysmography and EEG data.
Read the paper here!
