June 2026
Many birthdays in June. Happy birthday Anabella, Harshini, and Riley! Also, the the lab enjoyed the nice weather and the World Cup celebration in Davis
May 2026
Congratulations Harshini for passing your QE with flying colors!
April 2026
UC Davis undergraduate research conference. Congratulations to Jennyfer, Aniket and Tian for presenting their work
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March 2026
Harshini and Martine went to Boston for the Annual Cure Alzheimer's fund meeting
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January 2026
Bowling night for the lab and Elisa presented at the First Stem cell Symposium at Center for Neuroscience
December 2025
Leo presented at the Genome Center's human genetic focus group. Thanks for all the feedbacks and discussions
November 2025
Happy birthday Leo!
Also, CNS poster night with Aniket and Leo presenting a joint poster on linking microglia states to morphology
October 2025
Martine's birthday with an amazing cake from Leo
September 2025
Neurofest at MoSac. Thank you to all the volunteers
August 2025
Happy Birthday, Elisa, and baseball night!!
June 2025
Happy Birthday Jeanne!!
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June 2025
Happy Birthday Anabella!!
May 2025- Bay Area Aging Meeting
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While Martine and Anabella were on the East Coast, Elisa and Leo went to the Bay Area Aging meeting to discuss using the xenograft model to identify how human microglia change during aging. Busy week for the lab
May 2025- Annual Cure AD fund meeting
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Cure AD Fund annual meeting. Anabella and Martine traveled to Boston to meet our collaborators for the Cure AD Funds project because Zoom meetings are fun, but in-person meetings are much better!
May 2025- Stem Cell Training at CNS
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Our Stem Cell training gathered more than 40 scientists from across campus to learn more about the best practices and differentiation protocols for brain cells. A big thank you to Stem Cell Technologies for sharing all your tips and tricks and being such a great resource.
April 2025- Undergraduate Research Conference
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Congratulations to Aniket for presenting an amazing poster on new analysis to quantify microglia morphology.
April 2025- Winter Quarter Celebration
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We had a full and festive winter quarter, with plenty to celebrate! Along with wrapping up the quarter, we celebrated Cathy’s birthday and welcomed Leo, Jamie, Anabella and Elisa to the lab.
March 2025- NeuroFest 2025
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That's a wrap on the 10th anniversary of NeuroFest, celebrating a decade of NeuroTech Innovation. For more details check the webpage.
March 2025- Alzheimer's Association APOE meeting
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Everything you wish for at the APOE and lipid metabolism meeting in Miami; amazing science, good friends, manatees and tennis. Thanks for the invitation, Alzheimer's Association!
December 2024​
​We celebrated the end of the fall quarter with a visit at the Underground mini golf in Sacramento. We all got to show our skills at this unusual mini-golf game.
September 6 2024
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For the first time, Neurofest expanded and traveled to the Museum of Science and Curiosity in Sacramento to share our love for brain research with middle schoolers. In addition to our best neuro-themed activities, Martine presented in the amazing UC Davis Multiverse theatre Stellar Minds: Exploring the Universe Within Our Brains. Thank you to all the volunteers, MOSAC, and SMUD partners.
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August 14 2024​
To celebrate the completion of the lab renovations we invited everyone to an ice cream lab opening party. Thanks to everyone who came​
April 8 2024
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First lab picture on a windy day!!
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March 2024
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Discussing iPSC-microglia tools at the Regenerative Cure Institute in Sacramento and and online at the Neurogenomics seminar!
March 1 2024
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Thanks for the amazing welcome at CNS !!
https://x.com/UCDavisCNS/status/1763661971017330746
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December 2023 ​
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We officially have job postings online!
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Junior specialist
https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06179
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Postdoc
https://www.alzforum.org/jobs/postdoctoral-position-gliomics-research-group
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September 2023
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Happy to visit Davis for the CAMPOS scholar orientation.
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CAMPOS is an amazing initiative to support underrepresented groups in STEM. It is another example of the commitment of UCD to increasing diversity in STEM. If you want to know more check their website.
August 2022​
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The Muscular Dytrophy Association is funding our iMGL village project to identify how the underlying genetics of ALS affects microglia.
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For more information.
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