lab News

We introduce the newly minted Dr. Mehmet Keles! He defended his PhD with a terrific talk and highly scholarly thesis. He will now be promoted to a postdoc for a few months to submit three papers in prep.

• We welcome first-year MCIP rotation student Martha Rimniceanu. Martha has degrees in both biology and psychology and has worked in the labs of Barry Trimmer and Simon Sponberg. She has hit the ground running on with a difficult optogenetics project!
• Mentoring is enormously important and generally not taught. Here is a primer I distilled from a recent workshop 
• Rachel Colbath receives a scholarship from the UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholar Program!
• KAREN JUST GOT A NIH PREDOC GRANT CONGRATULATIONS!!! 
• The Gordon Research Conference in Neuroethology Mt. Snow Vermont July 28-Aug2. Theme: Multi-modal strategies for behavioral control: from molecules to circuits.  Sneak peek of speakers
• Super fun lab retreat in Joshua Tree​

6/1/2018 Carola and Rachel M have been coordinating the SWIRLSS outreach effort at a local high school - check out their new on-site flight simulator!