October 2018: Congratulations to Laura for being awarded a Research Grant from the UCLA Brain Research Institute to make the lab’s first genetically engineered mouse!
September 2018: Congrats to Zhi for being awarded a Young Investigator Grant by the Iris Cantor UCLA Women’s Health Center/UCLA National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health & UCLA CTSI.
August 2018: undergraduate Jose Mendez Avila was awarded a Dean’s Award for summer research.
June 2018: Laura was awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship by the UCLA Graduate Division. Congratulations!
June 2018: Patricia graduated summa cum laude and with highest departmental honors. Congratulations! Her story was written up here.
May 2018: Patricia Bunda was awarded a Dean’s Science Prize! Congratulations to Patricia and her mentor Laura Kammel.
May 2018: Estrogen signaling in the arcuate powerfully regulates bone. Here’s the preprint.
April 2018: Check out this video we shot at the V Foundation for Cancer Research V Scholar Summit.
April 2018: Zhi Zhang was awarded an AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship!
April 2018: Megan was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
March 2018: Patrick was admitted to the David Geffen School of Medicine!
March 2018: Check out guidelines for making conferences more inclusive and family friendly: How to tackle the childcare-conference conundrum by Rebecca Calisi and 45 mothers in science.
March 2018: Carolina De La Cruz is selected for UCLA’s CAMP undergraduate research program.
February 2018: Laura presents our single cell RNA-seq project at the MCIP retreat.
November 2017: We are honored to be supported by the V Foundation for Cancer Research for our work on the effects of tamoxifen on the hypothalamus.
October 2017: MS student Jae Park joins the lab.
September 2017: Congratulations to Megan for winning best talk at the Neuroscience IDP retreat.
June 2017: Stephanie presents our research in the “New Techniques for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology” Symposium at SBN 2017 in Long Beach.
May 2017: Selena Gonzalez wins Dean’s Research Prize at UCLA Undergraduate Poster Day. Congratulations Selena!
Spring 2017: Grad Students Laura Kammel and Megan Massa join the lab.
March 2017: Postdoc Zhi Zhang joins the lab from the Kalsbeek and Fliers groups at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN).
