HRUSKA LAB NEWS

CONGRATULATIONS, YEASMIN!

March, 2025

Yeasmin Akter published beautiful work on STED super-resolution imaging in brain tissue, discovering differences in synaptic nano-organization in glutamatergic synapses receiving distinct input.

Check it out here.

HRUSKA LAB ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH IN LOCAL NEWS

April, 2024

Check out the feature on our lab's effort to understand how synapses are impacted in early stages of Alzheimer's disease

HRUSKA LAB PRESENTS AT THE SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN WASHINGTON DC

November, 2023

Yeasmin Akter and James Scripter present their research at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting

HRUSKA LAB RECEIVES FUNDING FROM ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION

July, 2023

Nanoscale mechanisms of NMDAR dysfunction in AD: The goal of this work is to determine the role of NMDAR subtypes mediating synapse-specific Amyloid-beta dependent synaptotoxicity.

EXCITING FINDINGS AT HRUSKA LAB

February, 2022

Our paper describes nanoscale rules of AMPARs and NMDAR organization at synapses.

LEICA STELLARIS 8 3D STED SYSTEM IS INSTALLED IN THE LAB

May 3rd, 2021

We are one of the few labs in the world to have this awesome super-resolution instrument. We can image with unprecedented resolution in XYZ using multiple channels.

HRUSKA LAB OPENING AT WVU

February 1st, 2021

I am very excited to join this vibrant neuroscience community in the Department of Neuroscience and RNI at WVU.