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LAB NEWS
In the news! 06/2025 - Our efforts to understand and manipulate glial cell reactivity after spinal cord injury were recently highlighted in Nature News! Read it here. Congrats! 06/2025 - Dana is leaving to begin a new exciting chapter as Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Congratulations to Dana and we look forward to witnessing the success of the Klatt Shaw Lab. New lab member 05/2025- Excited to welcome Xiaoqi Luo to the Team. Looking forward to her future discoveries! Publication highlight! 04/2025 - Congratulations to Vishnu for his latest publication on zebrafish husbandry management, which has been featured on the cover! Lab perspective 03/2025 - Lab publication is out in Neural Regeneration Research, in which we review plasticity and regeneration mechanisms in zebrafish after spinal cord injury. Congrats! 12/2024 - Yuxiao Xu receives the 2025 Irving Boime Graduate Student Fellowship! Congrats! 10/2024 - Chase Weinholtz wins the Thach Award for best oral presentation at Wash U's Neuroscience retreat! Publication highlight! 09/2024 - Proud to see Vishnu's latest discoveries and our zebrafish featured by the NIH Director's Blog! Lab review 09/2024 - Lab publication is out in Advances in Neurobiology, in which Catrina Reyes reviews our understanding of astrocyte-neuron interactions in spinal cord injury. New lab members 09/2024 - Excited to welcome Matt Kent, Amulya Saini, Amruta Tendolkar and Giana Ferraiolo to the Team. Looking forward to their future discoveries! Lab publication 08/2024 - Lab publication is out in Nature Communications, in which Vishnu Saraswathy et al. uncover intersecting modes of neuronal repair during spinal cord regeneration. Congrats! 06/2024 - Yuxiao Xu wins Best Poster Award at the Midwest Zebrafish Meeting! MZFM24! 06/2024 - The Mokalled lab working hard co-organizing the Midwest Zebrafish Meeting at Wash U this summer. Thanks to all lab members and organizers for making it happen! Double Congrats! 05/2024 - Vishnu Saraswathy AND Yuxiao Xu win 2 out of 3 Awards at the Hope Center Retreat. Best talk award for Vishnu and best poster award for Yuxiao! K99 Award! 04/2024 - Dana Shaw receives a two-year K99 Award from NINDS. Congrats! Congrats! 03/2024 - Miguel and Mick pass their qualifying exams just before the total eclipse! New lab members 06/2023 - Excited to welcome Graduate Students Micklaus Garcia and Miguel Dominguez to the Team. Looking forward to their future discoveries! Congrats! 05/2023 - Dr. Nick Jensen defends his thesis. Proud of his success and excited about his future career! Double Congrats! 05/2023 - Vishnu Saraswathy AND Dana Shaw win Poster Awards at the International Symposium for Neural Regeneration! Lab publication 05/2023 - Lab publication is out in Development, in which Lili Zhou et al. uncover regenerative functions for glial cells during innate spinal cord repair. New lab member 04/2023 - Excited to welcome MSTP student Yuxiao Xu to the Team. Looking forward to her future discoveries! Meet the PI - 03/2023 - An interview with Mayssa Mokalled. New grant! 02/2023 - Celebrating our first zebrafish/human grant! We have been awarded a 2 year grant from the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders to study the immunoglial injury responses that promote spinal cord regeneration. Lab publication 11/2022 - Lab publication is out in Cell Reports, in which Vishnu Saraswathy and Lili Zhou identify neurogenic roles for Myostatin during innate spinal cord repair. New lab members 08/2022 - Excited to welcome Postbacc Paresh Hejmadi, Postdoc Ridim Mote, and Graduate student Chase Weinhotlz to the Team. Looking forward to their future discoveries! PI award 07/2022 - Mayssa Mokalled received the Rising Star Award from the International Society for Regenerative Biology. Proud and grateful to all lab members for sharing our journey together! New lab members 06/2022 - Excited to welcome our summer students: Wash U undergraduate student and ENDURE program member Catrina Reyes, and high school student Ritika Jagarlamudi. Bringing all the positive vibes we need this summer! Double Congrats to our postdocs! 05/2022 - Vishnu Saraswathy wins the Best Poster Award at the Dev Bio Retreat & Dana Shaw wins the Best Talk Award at the Hope Center retreat. Grateful for their hard work and proud of their well-deserved successes! Congratulations! 04/2022 - Brooke Burris is off to graduate School! A bittersweet celebration of her last day in the Lab, but excited to watch her continued success and discoveries. New grant! 03/2022 - Celebrating a new NOA! We have been awarded a new 5 year grant from the NIH/NINDS to delve into the glial cell responses that promote spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish. Lab publication 11/2021 - Lab publication is out in JoVE, in which Brooke Burris and Nick Jensen describe our methods to assess swim endurance and swim behavior in adult zebrafish. Stay tuned for the video. PI award 10/2021 - Mayssa Mokalled received the 2021 Junior Faculty Award for Excellence from the Zebrafish Disease Modeling Society. Honored and proud of our Team! More Lab News |