November 10, 2009:

Elena Rubio de la Torre, PhD. is joining the lab as a postdoctoral fellow from Institude of Parasitology and Biomedicine "Lopez-Neyra", CSIC, Granada (Spain). Elena studied molecular pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease and will set up models for neurodegenerative disorders.

November 2, 2009:

Keisuke Onishi, who received his Ph.D. from Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the University of Tokyo, received a "Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad" award from JSPS, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Keisuke is joining the lab at the beginning of 2010 as a postdoctoral fellow. He brings in expertise in cell polarity signaling in microtubule organization and dynamics.

August 28, 2009:

Congratulations to Beth Shafer on winning the Society for Neuroscience's Travel Award! Beth and Alisha will be attending the Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago, IL.

June 25, 2009:

Liseth Parra successfully defends her thesis, Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Guidance in the Developing Spinal Cord, and receives her PhD! She is joining Dr. Filippo Rijili's lab as a postdoctoral fellow at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, Switzerland in fall 2009.

Neuroscience 2009:

The Society for Neuroscience's annual conference will be held in Chicago, IL October 17th-21st. Beth Shafer and Alisha Richman will be attending and giving presentations.