News
2024
*Congrats to Srini on an excellent PhD defense!
2023
*New Firestein Lab paper published! Congratulations Kate O’Neill (PhD 2017), Srinivasa, Sara McEwan, Anton Omelchenko (PhD 2021), and Ana Rodriguez (PhD 2016)! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38110605/
*Congrats to the lab for being awarded NIH R21 (Firestein mPI with Brian Daniels) and R56 (Firestein mPI with David Meaney) grants!!!!
*Congrats to Marina on an excellent PhD defense!
*Welcome Min to the lab!!!
*Welcome Shradha to the lab!!!
*Congratulations to Allen Fu and Josh Stuckey for graduating with your B.S. in Cell Biology and Neuroscience!
*Congratulations to Allen Fu for defending his outstanding work as part of his honors thesis!
*Dr. Firestein has been elected to the Council of the American Society for Neurochemistry!
*Dr. Firestein has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science!
*Dr. Firestein has been appointed Editor at Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. She also continues in her role of Associate Editor of Science Advances.
2022
*Welcome Kendra, Katie, Kavyaa, and Vanessa to the lab!
*New Firestein Lab paper published! Congratulations Keith on your co-first authorship! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36208859/
*Congratulations to Dr. Nisha Singh for successfully defending her dissertation! It was a great defense!
*New Firestein Lab paper published! Congratulations Siddhant and Ansley on your co-first authorship! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35652995/
*Congratulations to Siddhant Kumarapuramganapath for defending his outstanding work as part of his honors thesis. We wish him the best as he enters the MD phase of the BA/MD program!
*Congratulations to the Firestein Lab for being awarded an Individual Research Grant from the New Jersey Commission on Traumatic Brain Injury Research!
*Congratulations to Atul Bhattiprolu and Ratchell Sadovnik, who will be attending Albert Einstein College of Medicine for medical school and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine for the PhD program, respectively!
*Congratulations Keith on your acceptance into the T32 Training in Translating Neuroscience to Therapies program!
Keith presented his work at EB 2022 in Philly! Keith’s poster focused on his molecular modeling work on how cypin binds to tubulin heterodimers and microtubules independently.