1/1/20 Former postdoc fellow Dr. Meifan (Amy) Chen starts her own lab at the University of Kentucky. Congratulations, Amy!!!
7/1/19 Carmine Chavez-Martinez joins the lab as a Ph.D. student.
5/1/19 Dr. Daniel Romaus-Sanjurjo joins from University of Santiago de Compostela.
1/15/19 Dr. Joshua Sanchez joins from the Milligan lab at the University of New Mexico.
5/1/18 Junmi Saikia joins the lab as an MD/Ph.D. student.
4/27/18 Jess successfully defended her thesis focusing on neuron intrinsic and extrinsic control of axon sprouting after CNS injury. See pictures.
3/27/18 Amy's paper on LZK (MAP3K13) in astrocyte reactivity is now published in Cell Reports. See the blog post from UC San Diego Health. This was a collaboration with Yishi Jin's lab at UC San Diego and Mark Goldberg's lab at UT Southwestern.
3/1/18 Dr. Jae Mun Kim joins the lab after defending his Ph.D. dissertation at the Knowles lab at USC.
11/13/17 Mini-Symposium "In vivo Imaging of CNS Injury and
Disease" co-organized by Dr. Binhai Zheng (UCSD) and Dr. Katerina
Akassoglou (UCSF) is well attended at the annual Society for
Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C. See summary article on the mini-symposium published in Journal of Neuroscience.
4/27/17 Cedric will join Texas A&M as a a tenure-track assistant professor. Congrats, Cedric!!!
4/11/17 The 2017 San Diego Spinal Cord Injury and Repair Symposium held at UCSD Faculty Club (sponsored by Paralyzed Veterans of America). See pictures.
10/19/16 Jess' preview article on the synaptic stabilization hypothesis of CNS axon regeneration comes out in Neuron.
10/17/16 The 2016 UCSD Neural Injury and Regeneration Symposium. See program and pictures.
9/7/16 Amy heads for UT Southwestern Dallas.
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