Alex Nord will be at CSHL Systems Biology of Gene Expression presenting a poster on our work on using genomics to understand interneuron specification in brain development.
Meeting info: https://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?meet=SYSTEMS&year=16
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Alex Nord speaks at the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics seminar series.
More info: http://humangenetics.ucsf.edu/event/alex-nord-phd-%e2%80%a2-uc-davis-center-for-neurosciences/
The lab welcomes new postdoc Tyler Stradleigh. Tyler did his Ph.D. with Andy Ishida at UC Davis and will be working on image-based analysis of enhancer function.
New grant to the lab from the Dravet Syndrome Foundation to study the role of regulatory DNA in Scn1a-associated epilepsy. Read more: http://www.dravetfoundation.org/research/dsf-funded-research
Congrats to Nord Lab undergraduate Anh Nguyen on being awarded the UC Davis Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship! Anh is working on applying dCas9 to mediate in vitro gene expression in an epilepsy model.
New publication in Neuron on the function of Pbx1. Congrats to Olga Golonzhka and John Rubenstein. We were happy to contribute to the computational analysis. Read more: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26671461
Alex will be teaching BIS101 with JoAnne Engebrecht Fall Quarter 2015. Get in on the fun: https://registrar.ucdavis.edu/courses/search/index.cfm
We hit our first anniversary this month. Highlights include putting together a great research team, finally moving in to our (almost complete) renovated lab space at the Center for Neuroscience this summer, and receiving initial awards and funding for students (Linda Su-Feher, selected for a fellowship) and projects in the lab, and three review articles. One year in, there is finally a working phone in Alex’s office.
Andrea was an undergraduate at UC Davis before her Masters in Los Angeles and Ph.D. at Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She will be working on projects involving mouse models of autism and epilepsy. Her Ph.D. was with Suzanne Zukin working on models of gene regulation in Fragile X.
Leslie Matheu, Anh Nguyen, and Yeni Belachew all worked in the lab this summer though research experience programs for UC Davis undergrads (http://urc.ucdavis.edu/programs/camp.html and http://www.busp.ucdavis.edu/). We thank them for their contributions to our research and look forward to having them continue with the lab long-term.