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News from the Lab

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Kaitlin is awarded a grant from the Myers Foundation to support her work! Superb!
The bubble/champagne tradition is now firmly entrenched.
May it be the first of many!

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The lab is awarded a fantastic DISC0 grant from CIRM to support our work!  Celebrations with a homemade lilikoi pie that did not get photographed prior to consumption.

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​Carla's paper gets accepted to Nature Communications!! ​Another celebration!
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​Celina & Emily's paper gets accepted at Nature Immunology!!!
Of course there are celebrations!
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Lab Potluck Picnic 2025 :) 
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Celina (selected for a talk!), Genevieve and Vanessa represent and present their work at the Gordon Research Conference: Neuroimmune Communication in Health and Disease in Italy!
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December 2024 - Samantha Mak defends her master's thesis on Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis and does a superb job!!! Congratulations and so glad you are staying with us a year!
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Lab Holiday Party 2024! 

Replete with Tor (age 11) serving peppermint schnapps. 

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday!

​J​ing gives an amazing talk at the Sanford Stem Cell Symposium after winning best abstract for the conference! Congratulations!
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​Lab summer party August 2024

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​February 2024 

Congratulations Carla on the FARA Postdoctoral Fellowship!!!

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December 2023 
​Collaborative R01 funded with Stephanie Cherqui's lab at UCSD on the mechanisms and therapeutic options in Friedreich's Ataxia. So excited about this ongoing project!
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Merry Christmas 2023!

Lab Christmas Party

Thanks Tor (age 10) for your bartending skills...

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September 2023
The lab says farewell to Avalon who has been such a joy to have in the lab and is now on to her next (beach) adventure as a doctoral student in Barcelona, Spain at the European Molecular Biology Laboratories (EMBL)!

We'll miss you but we are also JEALOUS of your adventure!
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August 2023
​​The lab says a heartfelt goodbye to Sammie Trescott, knowing she will CRUSH IT at Stanford (Genetics PhD!). In a new lab tradition, we cheered her on to a cliff jump!
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Lab AXE THROWING!
July 2023


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Next year we bring our failed westerns and frustrating blots to pin up as targets!
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​Nobody is more shocked than Nicole that she was promoted to associate with acceleration! 
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April 2023 - So proud of Cristina Mora who is matriculating to UCSD's MSTP Program this fall!

​May all your nuclei be microglia!

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March 2023 Celina Nguyen MSTP / Neurosciences Graduate student and brain masher extraordinaire has her NIH F30 funded on the first try - amazing!

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Jan 2023 Simons Foundation SFARI Collaboration on Sex Differences in Autism Meeting in New York City 

Page + Glass + Coufal Labs!

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​Happy Halloween!!!! And a spooky Sanford Consortium sky to match

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July 2022

​The lab wishes a fond farewell to Emily Hansen, who has been an awesome master's student, researcher, and lab leader and leaves us after 3 years to matriculate to the UCLA MSTP Program. 

It's been a privilege to work with you Emily and you are already very missed! And UCLA is so lucky to have you!

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Keystone Symposia: Neuro-Immune Interactions in the CNS, June 2022. 
An in person post-COVID conference with amazing poster presentations by Avalon and Sammie and a reunion hike with lab alum Zahara! First lab conference trip a success!
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​January 2022

Lab party!

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December 2021
NINDS funds the labs first R01! 
Based heavily on Emily's excellent work - 
Celebrations are in order!

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November 2021
​Samantha has been awarded a McNair Fellowship at UC San Diego! 
So excited to have you in the lab with us more during the course of your project! Congratulations!

October 2021
Sammie won the Outstanding Poster Presenter award at the Sanford Stem Cell Symposium! 
Could not be more proud, check it out! 


Sanford STem Cell Symposium
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June 2021
​Gaby has been accepted into the prestigious NIH/NIGMS Undergraduate Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (URISE) Program at Cal State University San Marcos. 
Congratulations Gaby we are so glad to have you in the lab!

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