Glasscock Lab

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We are the Cardiorespiratory Neurogenetics Laboratory at Southern Methodist University dedicated to understanding the genes and mechanisms underlying epilepsy and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP).


Recent Lab News

April 24, 2024: Kelsey Paulhus-Halvorson successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation and is now Dr. Paulhus-Halvorson!

April 2, 2024: Ellen Aughenbaugh and Regina Moreno Vera, two undergraduates in the lab, won poster awards for their research at the annual SMU Research & Innovation Week symposium.

September 15, 2023: The research of the Glasscock lab was featured in a promotional video for the new Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at SMU. See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4P9tnBtwQA

September 5, 2023: Dr. Glasscock gave a seminar on neuro-cardio-respiratory biomarkers of SUDEP to the Department of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

April 19, 2023: Maxine Parkinson, an undergraduate researcher in the lab, was named an SMU Hamilton Scholar for the summer term. This award provides her funding support to pursue a summer research project investigating cardiorespiratory dysfunction in mouse models of epilepsy.

March 22, 2023: PhD student Kelsey Paulhus won best biology poster at SMU's annual Research & Innovation Week Research Symposium for the 2nd year in a row!

January 15, 2023: The Glasscock lab was awarded a 5-year NIH R01 research grant to study mouse models of epilepsy for patterns of brain-heart-lung dysfunction that could be used as biomarkers to help identify people at risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). This project is a collaboration with the lab of Dr. Leonidas Iasemidis at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ.



Contact us

Edward Glasscock, Ph.D.
Professor
C. Vincent Prothro Distinguished Chair
Department of Biological Sciences
Southern Methodist University
6501 Airline Ct, Suite 113
Dallas, Texas 75206

Office: 338 DLSB // Phone (214) 768-4050
Lab: 317 DLSB // Phone (214) 768-4026

Email: eglasscock@smu.edu

Follow us on Twitter at @GlasscockLab


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