LAB NEWS
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! Fellowship award 09/2021 - Dana Shaw was awarded an NRSA fellowship to support her postdoctoral training. Congrats! Lab publication 08/2021 - Lab publication featured in the Neurogenetics Series at G3 and on the cover of Genetics. New lab members 07/2021 - Excited to welcome Postbacc Student Hunter Yamada to the Team. Looking forward to his future discoveries! New lab member 04/2021 - Excited to welcome graduate student Nick Jensen to the Team. Nick is our Computational and Systems Biology expert! Lab celebration 03/2021 - One year into the pandemic. Alot to celebrate. Papers, grants, vaccination... but most importantly we got to celebrate the team who led our lab through difficult times and kept us going. Proud PI! Lab publication 03/2021 - Lab publication is out at G3. The study is led by Dana Klatt Shaw who applied and characterized high-efficiency crispants in adult zebrafish. Lab publication 02/2021 - First lab publication is out at Dev cell. A real team effort between our team and collaborators at Wash U's Developmental Biology and Wash U's Center of Regenerative Medicine. Thanks all! Accepted! 01/2021 - First publication from the Mokalled lab is formally accepted at Dev cell. Time for a virtual celebration. New lab member 08/2020 - Excited to welcome Dan Gibson to the Team. Dan will be leading our efforts to reprogram regenerative human glia to promote neural repair! New lab members 06/2020 - Dylan Stahl and Hunter Yamada join us for (virtual) summer research. Extremely proud of everybody's dedication to research and discovery in these unprecedented times! Fellowship award 05/2020 - Dana Shaw was awarded a W.M. Keck Fellowship to support her postdoctoral training. Congrats! PI award 01/2020 - Mayssa Mokalled was selected as the 2020 recipient of the H.W. Mossman Early Stage Investigator Award in Developmental Biology from the American Association for Anatomy. Honored PI and happy lab! More Lab News |
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