Congrats to Linda Su-Feher, Nord Lab second year Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular, and Develompental Biology (BMCDB) Ph.D. student for earning a spot on the NIH T32 Biotechnology Training Grant! Linda’s project involves applying single cell transcriptomics to understand gene regulation.
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Ayanna Wade Joins the Nord Lab!
The Nord Lab welcomes new Neuroscience Ph.D. student Ayanna Wade! Ayanna is interested in the role gene regulation plays in learning and memory.
Alex Nord will talk at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Baltimore, MD. Alex will talk about ongoing work in the lab characterizing a new mouse model of Chd8 haploinsufficiency.
Nord lab research presented at IMFAR featured in autism news blog. Read more: https://spectrumnews.org/news/mouse-with-key-autism-mutation-defies-expectations/
Ph.D. student Linda Su-Feher represents the Nord Lab at CSHL Biology of Genomes, presenting a poster on our work on chromatin remodeling, transcriptional remodeling, and brain development. Conference info: https://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?meet=genome&year=16
The Nord Lab welcomes new Integrative Genetics and Genomics Ph.D. student Rinaldo Catta-Preta! Rinaldo comes to us from Brazil with a fellowship from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico and will work on computational genomics and brain development.
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
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