Welcome Ben
We welcome Ben joining us as visiting scholar! He will be doing some flywork to study metabolism, neurodegeneration, and aging.
Ching On Wong
Farewell Andy
Andy is taking a scientist position at SAHMRI Australia. We had a little sendoff for him today. Andy, bon voyage!
Collaboration with KV Lab at UTHealth published in Journal of Neuroscience.
Loss of Activity-Induced Mitochondrial ATP Production Underlies the Synaptic Defects in a Drosophila Model of ALS Nicholas E. Karagas, Richa Gupta, Elham Rastegari, Kai Li Tan, Ho Hang Leung, Hugo J. Bellen, Kartik Venkatachalam and Ching-On Wong Journal of Neuroscience 8 September 2022, JN-RM-2456-21
Yohana received Biological Sciences Award for Excellence in Research
Way to go, Yohana!
Lab resumes!
After a brief pause, we are all back to the bench!
Gene function study grant by the Undiagnosed Disease Network.
We are grateful to the UDN for supporting our study on a novel patient-derived variant of a lysosomal chloride transporter gene. 1st external grant to the lab!
Postdoc Andy and undergrad intern Yohana join the lab
Welcome, Andy and Yohana!
Postdoc Naidu joins the lab.
Naidu and his family moved all the way from Taiwan to the US. He will start working in the lab after the 14-day quarantine.
Our Zeiss epifluorescence microscope arrives!
It will be our imaging workhorse!
MS students Anita and Aya join the lab.
Welcome! Let’s do some science!