For ever Lab Member Chelsea Lee receives prestigious nomination at Mercer Medical School
https://www.gold-foundation.org/programs/ghhs/
Some ideas on People, Mentoring, Disease, and Science elicited by Bejan Saeedi & Joe Behnke
This past Friday, Julia, a perpetual Faundez Lab Member, matched to the prestigious Pediatric Neurology Program at Stanford. After four wonderful years in Brown University Medical School, Julia is going to the Bay Area.
With a gorgeous blond hair and 7 pounds 13 oz, we have a new lab member today November 4th, 2021.
The power of Neurodevelopment in all its glory!
Our amazing Dr. Singleton selected by Forbes
Interesting work on SLC25A1 overexpression in neurons leads to Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The Faundez Lab got accepted three papers on the same day.
You can read them at these links. Thanks to a marvelous team this was possible.
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-0042%2822%2901238-X
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(22)01192-0
Our team, led by Alicia Lane, won one of the Door Competition Awards from the Cell Biology Department
New Neuroscience Graduate Student Hadassah Mendez-Vazquez joined our lab on May 24, 2024. Her entrance to our lab was a big splash. We are so fortunate she chose us!
Welcome to your new academic home and family Hadassah.
Eliana Liporace, am undergraduate sophomore at Emory, has achieved exciting milestones this fall at her first national research conferences. At the 2024 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, PA, she was awarded 1st place in the Undergraduate Sophomore Poster Presentation category in Neuroscience for her summer research with the Howell Lab at The Jackson Laboratory. Earlier in October, Eliana also presented this research at the 2024 SACNAS NDiSTEM Conference as a fully funded Travel Scholar, where she presented her work and received recognition in the Health and Medicine category.
In addition to these research achievements, Eliana was recently named a Bowden Dean’s Achievement Scholar at Emory University. This prestigious merit-based award recognizes her outstanding academic performance and contributions to the community. These accomplishments highlight her dedication to advancing her academic and professional goals, including pursuing an MD/PhD in neurodegenerative diseases.
Alicia got official notification of her F31 NIH NINDS grant…..
Golgi-Dependent Copper Homeostasis Sustains Synaptic Development and Mitochondrial Content
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.22.110627v1
Mitochondrial Proteostasis Requires Genes Encoded in a Neurodevelopmental Syndrome Locus that are Necessary for Synapse Function
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.22.960971v1
https://f1000research.com/articles/8-2123
Three years of amazing and insightful discussions with one of my mentees and colleague now at the Broad Institute.
Are MD. PhD. programs delivering?
