In the summer of 2018, Tina became a Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) Scholar. SHPEP is a national program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with assistance provided by the Association of American Medical colleges (AAMC) and the American Dental Education Association (ADEA). Over the 6 week program, Tina was able to learn about health disparities and how it affects access to health care and thus health. Through clinical exposure, PBL courses, health policy seminars, and other various workshops, she learned skills that will aid in her success as a health care professional. Congratulations, Tina!
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Graduate student Ayanna Wade attended the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course titled, “Statistical Methods for Functional Genomics,” where she learned both traditional and cutting-edge big-data analysis methods from leaders in the field. Ayanna attended the course from June 28th to July 11th, 2019 and was supported by two travel awards from the Helmsley Charitable Trust and the UC Davis Neuroscience Ling-Lie Chau Graduate Student Award for Brain Research. Link to course found here.
Graduate student Ayanna Wade and Postdoc Jason Lambert represented the Nord lab by presenting posters at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s annual Biology of Genomes meeting held May 8th-12th in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
Congrats to Cesar, who was recently awarded a two year T32 fellowship through the Autism Research Training Program (ARTP) at the MIND Institute! With the program starting in September 2018, Cesar will get training in the clinical and neurological aspects of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and pursue a research project focused the molecular mechanisms underlying pathology due to Chd8 haploinsufficiency in mice. Cesar is looking forward to many exciting future interactions with trainees and investigators at the MIND Institute as we continue to investigate the causal roots and molecular mechanisms driving NDDs.
Congratulations to Ayanna Wade, a neuroscience graduate student in our lab, for being nominated and selected for the 2018-2019 Professors for the Future cohort! Fellows are selected based on academic performance, leadership potential, academic service, a desire to serve the needs of fellow students, and a commitment to the graduate and postdoctoral education process. Ayanna will begin her fellowship in Fall of 2018. Visit here for more information.
Graduate students Linda Su-Feher and Rinaldo Catta-Preta braved a bomb cyclone to represent the Nord Lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s annual Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression meeting held March 20-23, 2018 in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Posters were presented, food was enjoyed, and much snow was experienced.
Postdoctoral researcher Cesar Canales joins the Nord Lab. Cesar has vast experience utilizing mouse models as a tool to understand human disease and training in analyzing brain phenotypes mostly gained from his PhD research in Williams Beuren Syndrome and his previous postdoctoral training in the Simo Lab at UC Davis, where he investigated the role of the CRL5 complex in hippocampal development and its implications in adult neurogenesis. In the Nord Lab, Cesar will be working on the characterization of the different genetic models of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders that are currently under investigation.
Jacqueline Crawley, Ph.D., David Segal, Ph.D., Karen Jones, Ph.D., Alex Nord, Ph.D., David Amaral, Ph.D., Randi Hagerman, M.D. met to discuss the promises and pitfalls of translational animal models in neurodevelopment at the UC Davis MIND Institue’s Research Seminar Series in Sacramento, CA. Watch their presentations followed by a Q & A session with the audience below.
The Second Annual Nord Lab Retreat was held at Lake Tahoe, CA. Lab members came together to hike, talk science, and enjoy some nachos with a side of interpretive dance.
Congratulations to Diana Quintero, an undergraduate in the Nord lab, for being accepted to UC Davis’s Biology Scholars Advanced Research Program (BSHARP)! BSHARP is a two-year research-intensive program designed to increase the number of talented underrepresented, disadvantaged and disabled students who become leaders in areas relevant to biomedical and behavioral research. The program provides students with intensive research experiences as well as with activities that enhance their critical thinking and communication skills and prepares them for entry into high quality PhD (and MD/PhD) programs. BSHARP is funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Maximizing Access to Research Career (MARC) Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research Award (U-STAR).