Lab News

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We published in Brain!

Our awesome and hardworking research scientists, Qing and Fang, published their paper "Glucocorticoid-driven mitochondrial damage...

Irla got into graduate school!

Irla received several graduate school acceptances and will be attending Columbia's Pathobiology and Mechanisms of Disease PhD program in...

We published in Life Science Alliance!

Congratulations to our current PhD student, Konner Kirwan, and our two alumni Mei Zhu and Veronica Birdsall on publishing their paper...

Alicia joins us for her fall rotation!

Alicia, who is a first year in the Pathobiology and Mechanisms of Disease PhD program, will be joining us for her fall rotation. We are...

Mia passed her qualifying exam!!

Mia passed her qualifying exam today making her a Ph.D. candidate in Pathobiology and Mechanisms of Disease. Absolute slay....

Konner passed his qualifying exam, making him a Ph.D. candidate in Neurobiology and Behavior

Konner is officially a Ph.D. candidate in Neurobiology and Behavior! Congratulations, Konner. We are very proud! Had to go out to our...

Congratulations to Tori Zhuravleva for successfully defending her thesis!

Tori graduated with her Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior this summer. Her thesis is titled "Stress and Rab35 modulate Alzheimer's...

Clarissa got tenure!!!

We got a cake and celebrated. Irla is the photographer so she was not featured in the Owl's Tail photo. Sad.