@KosikLab

Our work at UCSB's Neuroscience Research Institute focuses on neuroplasticity, neurodegeneration, stem cell therapy, and Alzheimer's disease.

 UC Santa Barbara, CA
labs.mcdb.ucsb.edu/kosik/kenneth/
Joined February 2011
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Read Linde's story and how tau research can help here! nytimes.com/2024/12/22/healt…

Fighting to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate, for Her Daughters’ Sake (Gift Article)

A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?

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A fully integrated collaboration between biologists and chemists reveals a compelling approach to prevent tau aggregation in 4R tauopathies pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…

Precision proteoform design for 4R tau isoform selective templated aggregation | PNAS

Prion-like spread of disease-specific tau conformers is a hallmark of all tauopathies. A 19-residue probe peptide containing a P301L mutation and s...

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2024 Goldwater Scholarships Awarded to Kosik Lab Members ken-kosik.mcdb.ucsb.edu/news…
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A new article is available online at Neuron: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…. Thank you to @NeuroCellPress for the opportunity to share our research!
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A novel membrane-less organelle to degrade protein under stress conditions doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-3…
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I will be speaking at the upcoming 2nd Targeting Therapy of Alzheimer’s and Related Neurodegenerative Diseases Virtual Conference.
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In Life, She Defied Alzheimer’s. In Death, Her Brain May Show How. (Published 2020)

A woman in Colombia with a rare genetic mutation recently made the ultimate donation to science.

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Neurology Grand Rounds at University of Southern California Dec 1, 2020 youtu.be/1CcmvaP2mbk via @YouTube
Covid-19: What to do with limited knowledge. Global Studies Colloquium: Kenneth S. Kosik, M.D. presents his campus experience with the COVID-19 crisis and charts a direction forward.#covid19 youtube.com/watch?v=BYexwJQm…
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The proline-rich domain promotes Tau liquid–liquid phase separation in cells

The polyproline-rich domain of Tau, the core constituent of neurofibrillary tangles, can undergo liquid–liquid phase separation in living cells. Tau PRD co

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A Fast and Accessible Method for the Isolation of RNA, DNA, and Protein to Facilitate the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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A Scalable, Easy-to-Deploy, Protocol for Cas13-Based Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Genetic Material biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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My first preprint is now available on biorxiv! Thankful I got the opportunity to participate in this collaborative project between the Acosta-Alvear lab, Arias lab, @maxzwilson lab and @KosikLab.
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A Scalable, Easy-to-Deploy, Protocol for Cas13-Based Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Genetic Material biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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#nyu #genetics #latinamerica #cristinapato #kennethkosik FREE to public. Please join us on 10/17/19, 6:30pm at King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU.
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youtube.com/watch?v=AJWVzj2U… #kosik lab #TauBiology The Tau Biology Project by Dr.Kenneth Kosik
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Watch Dr.Kenneth Kosik's 2016 UCSB Commencement Speech: graduationwisdom.com/speeche…
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The Alzheimer's Laboratory

An extended family in Colombia with a genetic mutation causing Alzheimer’s may help scientists prevent the disease someday. Lesley Stahl reports on the groundbreaking study

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UCSB Neuroscientist on Alzheimer's Disease

A recent story in the New York Times suggested that abrupt changes in personality may be early warning signs for Alzheimers disease. To learn more, KCSB’s Lisa Osborn spoke with Dr. Kenneth Kosik, co

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