Bio199 undergrad Carolee Nguyen earned a full-ride travel fellowship to present our work on dendrite image analysis at the 4th annual RIKEN Center for Computational Science & High Performance Computing Youth Workshop in Kobe, Japan, Feb 18-20, 2020. https://www.r-ccs.riken.jp/en/events/200218.html She is one of only a handful of international applicants to receive this honor.  We’re delighted…

Undergrads Carolee Nguyen and Grace Jean both earned awards from UROP (Grace for her collaboration with Anita Bari) to fund their upcoming research in the lab.  Great start to the year!…

CMB Rotation students Patrick and Diana did a solid job presenting their projects during the end of Fall rotation symposium back in December.  And Jeffrey just started his Winter rotation in the lab this January.  We’re so glad to work with you all!…

UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory welcomes the new fellows of 2019, including Katie. Welcome to the new CNLM Fellows They also recently highlighted The Scientist magazine’s selection of 8 Rising Stars in Neuroscience. CNLM Fellow Katherine Thompson-Peer Featured as a Rising Star in Neuroscience…

  Katie was honored to be profiled as 1 of 8 “rising stars in neuroscience” in an eBook from The Scientist, among some truly impressive colleagues. (PDF) (website)   Here’s the text:   Katherine Thompson-Peer’s curiosity got the best of her when a literature search for neuron regeneration revealed an unappreciated research question: How do…

Since I seem to be forgetful about posting here, a friendly reminder that updates can also be found on Twitter @ThompsonPeerLab….

[ Probably should have posted this before, but better late than never, right? ] Katie was invited to give talks at the Southern California Drosophila Conference, on Sept 6, 2019 (link) the Developmental & Cell Biology Department retreat, on Sept 14, at the Dana Point Ocean Institute the Cellular and Molecular Biosciences graduate program welcome…

Just got the Notice of Award that our R00 was funded !!!!!!! That’s 3 years of funding for the lab to do exciting projects and make important discoveries. Woo-hoo!!!!…

The ribbon-cutting day is upon us.  The Thompson-Peer lab is now open for business!!…

Getting ready to start the lab!  Coming in April 2019….