This work will develop tools to manipulate ipRGC circuits with cell type specificity. Shoutout to Dr. Chen Liang and IBiS student Ely Contreras for contributing critical preliminary data!
Dr. Heather Mahoney receives a Shaw Family Pioneer Award!
Heather’s research will examine sex differences in visual modulation of mood and nicotine. Congratulations Heather! Link to Description
NUIN student Molly Flores-Narvaez advances to PhD candidacy!
Congratulations Molly!
NUIN student Jake Bhoi advances to PhD candidacy!
Congratulations Jake!
Our R01 application with Dr. Jennifer Evans and Dr. Iaroslav Savtchouk is funded by NIGMS!
This work will look at sexual dimorphism in photic processing.
Ely's paper is published in JEB!
Our collaborative review with Alexis Nobleman and Phyllis Robinson is out. Congrats Ely!
Postdoc Anna Vlasits starts in the Schmidt Lab!
Welcome Anna!
NUIN student Jake Bhoi starts in the Schmidt Lab!
Welcome to the lab Jake!
NUIN student Molly Flores-Narvaez starts in the Schmidt Lab!
Welcome to the lab Molly!!
Dr. Heather Mahoney starts a postdoc in the Schmidt Lab!
Welcome Heather!
Dr. Chen Liang starts a postdoc in the Schmidt Lab!
Welcome Chen!
Postdoc Marcos Aranda publishes his first Schmidt Lab paper!
Congratulations Marcos!
The lab receives a Chicago Biomedical Research Consortium Catalyst Award!
This work will be carried out with Xincheng Yao at UIC!
Tiffany gets tenure and is promoted to Associate Professor!
Maria Syeda joins the Schmidt Lab as a technician!
Welcome Maria!!
The lab gets its first R01!
Thankful to the NEI for supporting our work!
Marcos give a slide presentation at the SRBR 2020 virtual meeting!
Beautiful talk and beautiful slides. Way to represent!
Tiffany wins the 2020 Junior Faculty Award from the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms!
Grateful to SRBR for this wonderful honor, and happy to share it with Jen Hurley and Charo Robles!
Takuma's paper is published in Science!
Congratulations Takuma on a beautiful paper! Assist from undergraduate researchers Yudai Okabe and Jennifer Li and NUIN rotation student Nik Hayes. Thanks as well to our external collaborators for critical contributions! Link to the paper is here.
The paper was also previewed by Jennifer Ding and Wei Wei in the same issue! Link here.
Jasmine defends her PhD!
Congratulations Jasmine! Proud of your adjusting to the remote defense option on short notice. I hope we get to celebrate in person in June.