LAB NEWS

New lab member
09/2019 - Dana Klatt Shaw, PhD joins the lab. Dana plans to perform a genetic screen for glial bridging factors in zebrafish.
Bonus - Dana is ready to generate new lines and showed up with her own injection needles!!

Happy PI!
09/2019 - We are officially NIH-NINDS funded! We have been awarded a 5 year grant to study mechanisms of glial bridging and neurogenesis during spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish.

New lab member
09/2018 - Brooke Burris joins the lab as a Research Technician. Brooke wants to analyze some of our new mutant phenotypes.

Summer research
07/2019 - Hunter Yamada, an undergraduate student from Brown University, joins the lab this summer as part of the ENDURE program. It is already August and we are saying bye to Hunter... Looking forward to another great summer next year.

Grant award.
06/2019 - We have been awarded a 1 year grant from the McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology at WUSM to study adult neurogenesis in zebrafish.

Grant award.
04/2019 - We have been awarded a JIT grant from the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences to elucidate bridging glial mechanisms.

New lab member
09/2018 - Joel Brown, PhD joins the lab. Joel plans to elucidate neurogenesis mechanisms after spinal cord injury.

New lab member
06/2018 - Lili Zhou, MD, PhD joins the lab. Lili plans to map glial cell fates after spinal cord injury.
 
Grant award.
05/2018 - We have been awarded our first grant by the Missouri Spinal Cord Injury / Disease Research program.

New lab member
01/2018 - Ryan McAdow joins the lab as a staff scientist. Ryan is our new zebrafish expert.

Happy PI!
11/2017 - Our lab is fully furnished and our fish are growing fast.

The Mokalled Lab is open.
08/2017 - Thanks for the warm welcome from Wash U's Dev Bio.

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