2025

• March

  • Award: Gage Liddiard was awarded the Graduate College Ballard & Seashore Fellowship for Fall 2025.
  • David Alcantara Gonzalez joined the Glykys Lab as a post-doctoral researcher from the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in New York.
• January
  • Gage Liddiard was selected in the 2025 Dare to Discover downtown Iowa City banner campaign. 

2024

• December

  • Pratyush Suryavanshi and Gage Liddiard presented their work as posters at the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA. 

• October

  • Our publication (Suryavanshi et al., 2024) was featured on the cover of the October 9 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience magazine.

• August

  • Publication (basic): Suryavanshi P, Langton R, Fairhead K,  Glykys J. Brief and diverse excitotoxic insults increase the neuronal nuclear membrane permeability in the neonatal brain, resulting in neuronal dysfunction and cell death. J Neurosci. 2024 Aug 30:e0350242024. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0350-24.2024. 
  • Position change: Dr. Glykys is now an Associate Director of the MSTP program.
  • Award: Abby McLeod was awarded an Independent Creative Research by Undergraduates (ICRU) Fellowship for the Academic Year 2024-25.

• June

  • Publication (basic): Suryavanshi P, Baule S, Glykys J. Trauma in neonatal acute brain slices alters calcium and network dynamics and causes calpain-mediated cell death. eNeuro 17 June 2024, ENEURO.0007-24.2024; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0007-24.2024

• May

  • Award: Gage Liddiard (MSTP student) won the 2023 Publication Award from the Neuroscience Graduate Program at The University of Iowa. 
  • Jay Smuszkiewicz from the Neuroscience Graduate Program joined the Glykys Lab. 

• April 

  • Award: Gage Liddiard (MSTP student) won the best poster in the medical student category at the Pediatric Research Day (University of Iowa, Department of Pediatrics). 

• February

  • Award: Gage Liddiard got first place in the Papajohn Biomedical Institute Best Paper Competition for Graduate Students for 2023.
• January
  • Milestone: Rachel Langton celebrated her 5th anniversary at The University of Iowa.
  • Milestone: Joseph Glykys celebrated his 5th anniversary at The University of Iowa.
  • Publication (Clinical): Jagadish, S., Czech, MT., Zimmerman, MB., Glykys, J. Epilepsy Incidence and Developmental Outcomes After Early Discontinuation of Antiseizure Medication in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. Pediatric Neurology. Jan 11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2024.01.009

2023

• December
  • Publication (Basic): Liddiard GT, Suryahvanshi PS, Glykys J. Enhancing GABAergic tonic inhibition reduces seizure-like activity in the neonatal mouse hippocampus and neocortex. Journal of Neuroscience 4 January 2024, e1342232023; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1342-23.2023
• October
  • Recognition: Our publication Islam et al., is the cover slide for the eNeuro website for the week of October 25 to November 1, 2023 (www.eneuro.org).
  • Award: Dr. Glykys is now a Fellow of the American Epilepsy Society.
• September
  • Publication (Basic): Islam MS, Suryavanshi P, Baule SM, Glykys J, Baek S. A Deep Learning Approach for Neuronal Cell Body Segmentation in Neurons Expressing GCaMP using a Swin Transformer. eNeuro. 2023 Sep 13; ENEURO.0148-23.2023.PMID: 37704367. 
• July
  • Award: Pratyush Suryavanshi (post-doc) was awarded a 2023 Post-doctoral Award Fellowship by the American Epilepsy Society. 
• March
  •  Publication (Basic): Takezawa, Y., Langton, R., Baule, SM., Zimmerman, MB., Baek, S., Glykys, J. Role of NKCC1 and KCC2 during hypoxia-induced neuronal swelling in the neonatal neocortex. Neurobiology of Disease. 2023. PMID: 36706928. Pubmed Link
  • Award: Gage Liddiard was awarded a Graduate College Summer Fellowship for Summer 2023.

2022

• April:
  • Award: 
    • 2022 Epilepsia Open prize for basic research for the publication: Sturgeon M., Langton R., Sharma S., Cornell R., Glykys J., Bassuk AG. The opioid antagonist naltrexone decreases seizure-like activity in genetic and chemically induced epilepsy models. Epilepsia Open. 2021 May 24. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12512 
    • Link to award https://www.ilae.org/about-ilae/awards/epilepsia-openandreg-prize/morgan-sturgeon-2022
    • Link to Morgan Sturgeon's (first author) interview: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/epi4.12592 
• July:
  • Gage Liddiard successfully passed his Doctoral Comprehensive Examination.
  • Joseph Glykys was promoted to Associate Professor in Pediatrics and Neurology.
• October:
  • Publication (Basic): Langton R, Sharma S, Tiarks GC, Bassuk AG, Glykys, J. Lacosamide decreases neonatal seizures without increasing apoptosis. Epilepsia. 2022. PMID: 36168798. doi: 10.1111/epi.17423: Pubmed Link

2021

• January:    
  • Pratyush Suryavanshi, Ph.D., joined the Glykys Laboratory as a Post-Doctoral Researcher.
• April:          
  • Publication (Basic): Tong L, Langton R, Glykys J, Baek S. ANMAF: An automated neuronal morphology analysis framework using convolutional neural networks, Scientific Reports. 2021 April 14;11(1):8179. PMID: 33854113. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-87471-w
• May:           
  •  Publication (Basic): Sturgeon M., Langton R., Sharma S., Cornell R., Glykys J., Bassuk AG. The opioid antagonist naltrexone decreases seizure-like activity in genetic and chemically induced epilepsy models. Epilepsia Open. 2021 May 24. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12512
• June:          
  • Publication (Basic): Rahmati N, Normloyle KP, Glykys J, Dzhala VI, Lillis KP, Kahle KT, Raiyyani R, Jacob T, Staley KJ. Unique actions of GABA arising from cytoplasmic chloride microdomains, Journal of Neuroscience. 2021 Jun 9;41(23):4957-4975. PMID: 33903223. doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.3175-20.2021
• July:           
  • Award: The American Epilepsy Society (AES) Post-doctoral research award was granted to Yusuke Takezawa. "Calcium overload and cell swelling during hypoxia in the neonatal brain.  https://www.aesnet.org/research-funding/research-funding/aes-award-recip...
• August:      
  • Gage Liddiard, MSTP student (Neuroscience), joined the Glykys Laboratory as a Graduate Student
  • Kimberly Fairhead joined the lab as an Undergraduate Student
• December: 
  • Publication (Clinical): Madathil S, Matsumoto S, Mathews KD, Glykys J. Central Nervous System Infections Due to Streptococcus anginosus Group: A Single-Center Case Series. J. Child Neurol. 2021. Dec 1; 8830738211052132.  doi: 10.1177/08830738211052132

2020

• January:        
  • Rachel Langton, BS, joined the Glykys Laboratory as a Research Technician.
• July:               
  • Yusuke Takezawa, MD/Ph.D., a child neurologist from Japan, joined the Glykys Laboratory as a Post-Doctoral Researcher.
• October:        
  • Samuel M. Baule, an undergraduate student, started in the Glykys Laboratory.
• December:   
  • Publication (Clinical): Cole M, Zhorne L, Glykys J. Atypical Presentation of Primary Stabbing Headache in a Patient With Type 3 Gaucher Disease, Pediatric Neurology. 2021 Mar;116:57-58. PMID:33486419. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2020.12.002.