IGG graduate student Rinaldo Catta-Preta was accepted as an affiliate of the UC Davis Data Science Initiative (DSI). He will support the DSI’s mission to help foster, catalyze, coordinate and promote research and education related to Data Science and Big Data on campus. Furthermore, he will leverage this connection with experts and researchers from a broad range of fields working with data science for the benefit of the laboratory research.
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BMCDB Ph.D. student Linda Su-Feher has been selected as a 2017 Leaders for the Future Program fellow. As part of this program, she will engage in leadership training, business communication, project management, and entrepreneurship with other participants and industry partners. Congratulations!
The Nord Lab’s work characterizing brain development in a mouse model of the autism risk gene Chd8 is published online in Nature Neuroscience on June 26th, 2017! Andrea Gompers (postdoc) and Linda Su-Feher (graduate student) are co-first authors from the lab. This work was a collaboration between the Nord Lab and the labs of Jacqueline Crawley and Jill Silverman (UC Davis MIND Institute), Jason Lerch (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto), and Konstantinos Zarbalis (Shriners Hospitals for Children).
This manuscript was partially produced by copious amounts of coffee and group huddles in exasperated cafes.
Many congratulations to Ayanna Wade for successfully passing her Qualifying Exam II! Celebratory dim sum was had all around. She is now a Neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate!
Congratulations to Nord Lab undergraduates Lyndon Liu and Anh Nguyen for graduating from UC Davis!
Congratulations to former Nord Lab undergraduate researcher, Shreya Louis, who has been accepted to Cleveland Clinic for medical school!
Alex Nord presents at the 2017 Cortical Development Conference in Chania, Crete, Greece.
Ayanna Wade, Neuroscience Ph.D. student, and Andrea Gompers, postdoc, will be presenting posters on their work on a mouse model of Chd8 haploinsufficiency at the 2017 International Meeting for Autism Research in San Francisco, CA.
Alex Nord presents on epigenomic programming of interneuron specification in the mouse at the Control of Neuronal Identity II at Janelia Research Campus.
Postdoc Tyler Stradleigh marries May 5th, 2017, to his lovely wife Samantha! We wish them a long and happy life together!