News

Congrats to Morven - his work on calcium channels is now on biorxiv! 

Check out are new preprint on active zone assembly! Congrats, to Javier, Jon and everybody who contributed. Great collaboration with the Blanpied lab!

Wellcome to the lab, Leonardo Silenzi! We are excited that you joined as a graduate student.

Kazuya Nozawa has joined the lab as a postdoc - welcome to our lab Kaz!

Gillian Handy joined the lab - we are excited to work with you!

We are thrilled that Annunziato Morabito has joined the lab as a postdoc - welcome to the lab, Nunzio!

We are thrilled that Ricardo Lopez has joined the lab as a graduate student. 

We had a good 2022 - big thanks go to everyone in the lab and to all our collaborators for making science and life fun and interesting! Onto 2023 - Happy New Year!

Congrats to Joe Lebowitz at OHSU, Aditi in our lab, and all the collaborators at the Vollum and at HMS for getting our paper on somatodendritic dopamine release out! Great collaboration with the lab of John Williams! 

Lauren's paper is published in Elife - congrats, a massive enterprise. Thanks to Aditi as well for helping at the goal line. 

Congrats to Chao Tan and everybody who contributed, it's accepted. Knocking out six genes in mouse neurons to shave away the presynaptic density.

Lauren's manuscript is out on biorxiv! Congrats.

A summer party and a goodbye for Claire! Thank you.

Xintong defended her thesis - congrats Dr. Cai!

Vanessa Charles joined the lab - welcome to the team!

Check out Chao's new preprint on the strongest active zone mouse mutant yet. 

Congrats to Changliang, Xintong for their Research Article in Science on the axonal induction of action potentials! A great collaboration with Andreas Ritzau-Jost, Stefan Hallermann, Paul Kramer and Zayd Khaliq.

Chao's paper on rebuilding active zones is available online at Neuron (an early version of the manuscript is here) - congrats to Chao, Shan Shan and Giovanni!

Aditi's paper on active zone architecture and function in striatal axons of dopamine neurons is in press at Neuron (an early version of the manuscript is here) - congrats to everyone involved!

Kathleen Beeson joined the lab as a postdoc! Welcome to the lab.

Our work on liquid-liquid phase separation of Liprin-alpha is published - congrats to everyone involved. 

Our review on mechanisms of dopamine transmission appears in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

Özge joins our lab as a postdoc - welcome to the team!

Javier's paper on PTPs is out - congratulations!

Claire Qiao joins as our lab manager!

Congratulations to Pragya for a Damon Runyon Fellowship!

The calcium channel paper is out! Congrats Richard, Changliang and Kunpeng and a large team involved.

Jennifer, our lab manager for the past years, is leaving the lab, off to grad school. Congrats on your achievements and thank you for all you have done for the lab!

Well done Sunny and co-authors: Rab6 targets cargo to nerve terminals.

Synaptotagmin-1 is the calcium sensor for dopamine release. Congrats to Aditi and everybody who contributed!

Mineui Han joins the lab as a Lab Manager - great to have you in the lab. 

Jon Andersen (PIN) has decided to join the lab as a graduate student. Excited to have you the team.

Congrats Arthur for your nice paper on RIM and PIP2.

Changliang's dopamine paper is out!

Yan's Liprin paper in press! congrats.