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.
Takuma defends his thesis!
Congratulations Dr. Sonoda! First PhD student from the Schmidt Lab!
Takuma's paper is out in Journal of Comparative Neurology!
With an assist from Yudai Okabe!
Seul Ki's paper is out at Cell Reports!
With an assist from Takuma.
Tiff gives her tenure talk!
Thanks to the lab for the cake and champagne (and all the awesome work that got us to this point)!
Jasmine wins the IBiS and ISO Excellence in Leadership and Engagement Award!
Congrats Jasmine! Well-deserved!
Jasmine's first paper is out in Neural Development!
Congratulations Jasmine on a beautiful paper with 12(!) figures!
Link: https://neuraldevelopment.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13064-019-0132-2
Annual Schmidt Lab BBQ!
Too much food and beautiful weather = perfection.
Michelle Ren's MS thesis work from the Schmidt/Turek labs is published in eLife!
Link to NU Press Release: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2019/07/new-neural-pathway-discovered-that-processes-acute-light-to-affect-sleep
In collaboration with Alan Rupp (and others!) from Samer Hattar’s lab.
Tiffany is awarded a Brain Research Foundation Fay/Frank Seed Grant!
Thankful to the BRF for this support to develop new genetic tools to control specific neuronal populations!
It's Sam's last day in lab!
Can’t wait to see your career progress! Good luck at UIC, and thanks for all your awesome work in the lab!
(Pictured with his mentor, Jasmine)
Rwan Ibrahim, Yudai Okabe, Uma Jacobs, and Danny Callahan are all awarded Weinberg College Summer Research Grants!
Can’t wait to see what you all accomplish over the summer!
Dr. Marcos Aranda joins the lab!
Welcome to the Schmidt Lab Marcos!
Jasmine's first paper is on BioRxiv!
Jasmine’s beautiful characterization of ipRGC cellular properties throughout postnatal development is now live on bioRxiv! Link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/619387v1
Chris Holland is awarded a URG to do summer research in the lab!
Congrats Chris!
Kayla is awarded an NSF GRFP!
Congrats Kayla!
Takuma is awarded an NRSA from NEI!
Congrats Takuma and thanks to NEI for the support!