Labs and resources

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LABS AND RESOURCES

MRC Prion Unit, UK, John Collinge, Sebastian Brandner: http://www.prion.ucl.ac.uk/

Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA: http://www.scripps.edu/philanthropy/priondiseases.html

UCSF, Stanley Prusiner: http://memory.ucsf.edu/cjd/research

U Chicago Memory Center, James Mastrianni: http://www.uchospitals.edu/specialties/neurosciences/memory/

Neuroscience Department/ Laboratory of Biology of Neurodegenerative Disorders (BND), Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Gianluigi Forloni: http://www.marionegri.it/mn/en/sezioni/istituto/storia/biografie/forloni.html

UCSD: http://pathology.ucsd.edu/faculty/Sigurdson.html

Alberta, CA Prion Research Institute:http://www.prioninstitute.ca/index.php

Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, U. of Alberta, Canada: http://www.prioncentre.ca/

PrioNet, Canada: http://www.prionetcanada.ca/

German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Walker Jackson: http://www.dzne.de/en/research.html; http://www.dzne.de/en/publications.html

Lindquist Lab, Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge: http://web.wi.mit.edu/lindquist/pub/
Publications of the Lindquist Lab
http://web.wi.mit.edu/lindquist/pub/Publications.html

Tohoku University Center for Prion Research, Sendai, Japan: http://www.art.med.tohoku.ac.jp/e/introduction/prion/index.html

Harris Lab, BU, Boston: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/biochemistry/people/faculty/david-a-harris/

National Reference Centre for TSEs, Dept. of Neurology, Geory-August U., Goettingen, Germany, Inga Zerr: http://www.researchgate.net/researcher/38845286_Inga_Zerr

Wishart Lab, U. Alberta, Toronto and BC, Canada: http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~prion/index.php ; http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~prion/orgs.php

Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University of St. Louis: https://hopecenter.wustl.edu/

Journals:

Landes Bioscience journal, “Prion,” issued quarterly, requires subscription
http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/prion/

Prions Research Today, monthly, free online (some junk, some useful info)
http://prions.researchtoday.net/archive/6/2/877.htm

Not prion-specific:

MGH Neurodegenerative research labs, Boston (mostly focused on Alzheimers):

http://madrc.mgh.harvard.edu/research

http://www.massgeneral.org/mind/training/

MIT McGovern Institute for brain research

http://mcgovern.mit.edu/brain-disorders/neurodegenerative/our-research

Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair