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Big news—we’ve moved to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA! Even bigger: Gena is now Chair of the Department of Neurobiology. Congrats, Dr. Konopka! 💙🧠 #UCLA #Neurobiology #NewBeginnings
Fall semester is officially here and we celebrated the best way we know how, together over a great lunch at the Faculty Club 🍽️🍂 Here's to an exciting semester of science ahead! #UCLA #Neurobiology #LabLife
UCLA Dept of Neurobiology is hiring an Open-Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Member! 🧠 Our research spans genetics, molecular, systems, computation, and behavior. Apply by Oct 31 to join our vibrant neuroscience community at DGSOM. 🔗 recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF1129…
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Some super cool news of the day: my name is on a @Nature paper for the first time!!
This work grew out of a collaboration with my AMAZING postdoctoral mentor, Genevieve Konopka @KonopkaLab, and neurosurgeon Bradley Lega at UTSW.
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nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Fresh out in @Nature ! 🎉For the first time, we used living human brain tissue to show how electrical stimulation rewires cell networks at a single-nucleus level. Grateful to everyone who worked on this! Read it here: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
We are super excited to share our latest pre-print in collaboration with @Sonja_Vernes Lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… : Evolution of the cellular landscape in mammalian striatum 🧠🧬🧵
8/ 🧪Combining snRNA-seq + smFISH + cross-species comparisons + cross region comparisons = powerful insights into mammalian striatum evolution.
🧵Thanks for reading!
Our paper is out now in Nature Communications! 📖✨
Full open-access paper here 👇
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
📢 Excited to share our latest preprint by Miranda!Using a multiomic approach, we show FOXP2 is essential for the development & survival of specific glutamatergic neurons in the inferior colliculus, linking its loss to subcortical auditory processing deficits.
Huge congratulations to Dr. Jankovic on a brilliant PhD defense! 🥳🎓 She knocked it out of the park presenting her thesis: “FOXP2 Defines Subpopulations of Neurons and their Development in the Inferior Colliculus.” 🧠✨ So proud of your hard work, Doctor! #PhDDefended #UTSW
🎉 Exciting news! @MantreDehnad's new pre-print is officially out!
Huge congratulations to all of our incredible co-authors and collaborators who made this work possible. 🙌 🧬
Check out the full study here: 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.22.…
#Preprint #LabNews #UCLA #UTSW
Congrats to Madelynne Wells and Rena Li for presenting their work at the UCLA BSCRC End of Year Core Resource Event 2026! 🎉
Proud to see your hard work and research contributions showcased—great job representing the lab and sharing your science with the broader UCLA community.
And a special shoutout to Eric Huan and Kimberly Wei for representing the lab at UCLA's Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase during Undergraduate Research Week! Congrats, guys!! 🎉🙌 youtube.com/watch?v=MrAGhZsc… youtube.com/watch?v=YB7VvQaz…
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Finally, it is out. Many thanks to my two mentors Gena Konopka and Joe Takahashi @CircadianClocks, as well as all the lab members @KonopkaLab
Human-like expression of the CLOCK gene in mouse neocortex enhances cognitive flexibility and neural connectivity, suggesting an evolutionary gain of function
@Brain_EvoDevo @KonopkaLab @CircadianClocks
nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
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Human-like expression of the CLOCK gene in mouse neocortex enhances cognitive flexibility and neural connectivity, suggesting an evolutionary gain of function
@Brain_EvoDevo @KonopkaLab @CircadianClocks
nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
