Lab News & Achievements

2021: February: Mary Alice started rotation!

March: Sofia passed her qualifying exam. Congrats!

April: Sofia received NSF graduate research fellowship honorable mention!

May: Nigel, Joe, and Lorenzo graduated. Congrats!

May: Joe gots into medical school!

May: Sofia's SRT talk

May: Mary Alice joined the lab!

June: Jialiu presented at the YSCC Research Forum.

June: Jialiu and Vidya presented at the 4th Annual YPA symposium, and both were awarded Best Talk/Poster!

July: Jialiu's RIP talk

July: Jialiu accepted a Presidential Postdoc fellowship positions offer at Nanyang Technological University. Congrats!

July: Mary Alice's SRT talk

August: Vidyadhara and Sree won a Michael J. Fox Foundation grant. Congrats!

August: Chung-jung Li accepted an offer from the Chandra Lab. Welcome!

August: Sofia won a NINDS T32 Neurobiology of Cortical Systems training grant. Congrats!

September: Leah started rotation at the Chandra Lab. Welcome!

September: Undergraduates Michelle and Risha joined the lab. Welcome!

September: Nigel joined the lab as a post-bacc. Welcome!

October: Sofia gave a talk at the NCL conference.

October: Na presented a poster at the NCL conference.

October: Sree presented on Parkinson's Grand Challenge Talk on GBA linked PD.

October: Sree gave a talk at Oxford University, United Kingdom.

October: Lab Halloween party

November: Jamie presented at Yale Single-Cell symposium

December: Nigel got a NINDS-diversity supplement fellowship
2020: January: Welcome Jamie, our new post-bac.

January: Sofia Tieze, INP starts lab rotation

January: Sree talks at Thomas Jefferson University.

February: Erica's PhD Thesis Defense: "Dynamic Depalmitoylation at the Synapse". Congratulations!!!

March: Lab shut down due to COVID-19.

April: Cell Biology of Parkinson's Disease Genes meeting that Sree was co-organizing sadly cancelled due to COVID-19.

April: Karina, Patty, and Eric's manuscript on alpha-synuclein's role in clatherin assembly is posted on BioRxiv.

May: Joe and Lorenzo are awarded the Yale College Dean's Research Fellowship.

May: Erica's paper on PPT1 substrates is posted on BioRxiv.

May: Erica starts an exciting SARS-CoV-2 project.

May: Sofia has officially joined our lab! Welcome.

September: Jialiu has officially joined our lab! Welcome.

September: Ben begins rotation.

October: Deanna begins rotation.

October: ASAP award on Neuroimmune interactions in Parkinson's disease begins.

December: Sree and Rui Chang are recipients of the McKnight Brain Disorders Award.
2019: March: Vidyadhara awarded Department of Defence, Parkinson’s Research Program (PRP) Early Investigator Research Award (2019-2021)

April: Helen awarded Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine Summer Research Fellowship

June: Our collaborative work on a fly model of ANCL is posted on bioRxiv

June: Sree, Shawn and Pietro’s application is selected to be the Parkinson Foundation Research Center for Excellence

July: Sree, John and Vidyadhara published a review article on “Role of the Endolysosomal System in Parkinson’s Disease” in the Journal of Neurochemistry

August: Welcome Betul!

August: Patty goes to graduate school (University of Pennsylvania)

August: Erica and Patty present on Hsp110 disaggregase at NeuroDay

September: Sree talks at Synuclein Meeting in Porto, Portugal

September: Victor Olmos, MCGD starts lab rotation

October: ANCL paper published in eLife

November: Yumi and Erica's paper published in PNAS! Congratulations!
2018: February: Yumi defends her thesis! Congratulations Dr. Taguchi!

February: Erica becomes a PhD candidate

February: Karina leaves for MBL

February: Hyong Kim, INP, starts lab rotation

March: Erica awarded Keystone symposium travel scholarship

March: Erica awarded Digital Education Innovation Grant from the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning

May: Yumi and Helen leave for medical school (Yumi - Mayo Clinic, Phoenix; Helen - Frank H. Netter SOM at Quinnipiac University)

June: Erica presents a poster at Keystone Conference on Advances in Neurodegenerative Disease Research and Therapy in Keystone, Colorado

June: John Lee and Nigel Wade, (STARS Program) joins the lab

July: Erica presents a poster at the FENS Meeting in Berlin, Germany

August: Erica awarded NINDS T32 Neurobiology of Cortical Systems funding

August: Vidyadhara joins the lab! Welcome!

September: Erica completes the Medical Scholars Training Program! Congratulations!

September: Sree talks at a-Synuclein Biology Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland,

October: Deyri is selected to the Science, Technology and Research Scholars (STARS) II Program! Congratulations!

October: Sree co-organizes Kavli Workshop on Neurodegeneration

November: Karina presents a talk at SfN

December: Erica and Patty present posters at the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting in San Diego
2017: February: Yumi presents poster at WorldSymposium, San Diego

February: Harrison Brody starts lab rotation

April: Erica NSF Honorable mention

April: Erica Ford Fellowship honorable mention

May: Erica and Sree’s review article is accepted

May: Helen joins the lab

May: Laksmi gets an Ezra Stiles Richter summer fellowship

June: Patty Colosi (PREP Program) joins the lab! Welcome!

June: Sree talks at ‘Bring Your Child to Work Day’ on being a neuroscientist

July: Sree got tenure! Yipee!

September: Sree becomes Deputy Chair for the Department of Neuroscience

November: Karina presented in Nanosymposiurm at SfN, Washington DC

November: Deyri presents poster at ABRCMS, Phoenix
2016: January: Sree presents at the Winter Conference In Developmental Psychobiology, Costa Rica

April: Sree presents at CSHL Meeting on Protein Homeostasis in Health and Disease

April: Erica joins the lab! Welcome!

April: Erica NSF honorable mention

June: Sree nominated to be stannding member of CDIN Study Section

September: Yumi is awarded Lo Graduate Fellowship for Excellence in Stem Cell Research

September: Yumi is awarded NINDS T32 ‘Neurobiology of Cortical Systems’ training grant

September: Yumi presentx a poster at World Parkinson Congress, Portland, OR

October: Yumi wins GSA Conference Travel Fellowship

October: Sree presents at the International Conference on Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis

December: Karina presents at American Society of Cell Biology in San Francisco
2015: May: Xiuqi gets Morse College Richter summer fellowship

May: William Hancock-Cerutti starts lab rotation

June: Sree teaches at the FENS-SfN Summer School, Bertinoro, Italy

September: Erica Gorenberg starts lab rotation

September: Sree speaks at Grand Challenges in Parkinson’s disease at Van Andel Institute

October: Xiuqi presents at Nanosymposium at Society for Neuroscience, Chicago

October: Sree presents at the NCL meeting in Cordoba, Argentina
2014: December: Congratulations Xiuqi! Xiuqi is awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship!

November: Congratulations Yumi! Yumi passes her qualifying exam!

August: We welcome Wilhemina Koomson, a PREP student from Cleveland, Ohio

August: Pie Baking Contest! The Chandra lab has its first annual pie baking contest!

July: Zhang's paper 'Oligomerization of Cysteine String Protein alpha mutants causing adult neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis' is published in Biochimica et Biophysica acta

July: Karina's paper 'Synucleins Regulate the Kinetics of Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis' is published in the Journal of Neuroscience and makes the front cover

June: We welcome David Walker, a summer medical student

June: Congratualations Sree! Sree got CT stem Cell Grant

May: Congratualations Sree! Sree is promoted to Associate Professor!

May: We welcome Yumiko Taguchi!

April: Vicky awarded summer fellowship

March: Freshman Xiuqi Cao joined the lab

February: Yumi Begins her Rotation

January: Mike successfully defends his thesis!

January: We welcome Matthew Russell, a winter term student from Oberlin
2013: November: Congratulations Sree! Sree receives 6% on CSP R01!

October: We welcome Greg Wirak, a post-baccalaureate student from Woodbridge, Connecticut.

September: Chriss successfully defends his thesis!

September: Sree Organizes CNNR Retreat. Sree organizes the yearly retreat for the cellular neuroscience, neurodegeneration, and repair program

April: Congratulations Kasia! Kasia is awarded a summer scholarship!

April: Congratulations Vicky! Vicky is awarded a summer scholarship!

January: Chriss's paper 'Monomeric synucleins generate membrane curvature' is published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry!

January: We welcome Yvonne Dorland, an exchange student from the Netherlands.

January: Liz Begins her Rotation in the lab
2012: November: Sree is awarded the BDSRA grant!

October: Sree organizes SfN mini-symposium on synuclein function

September: Kyla Horn begins her rotation in the lab

August: We welcome Vicky Chou, a freshman from Dallas, Texas

July: We welcome Kyumin Shim and Jennifer Mena, summer students from UCSD and Wesleyan

June: Sree and Mike give a tagteam talk at Neuroday

April: Mike and Zhang publish 'Identification of CSPa Clients Reveals a Role in Dynamin 1 Regulation' in Neuron!

April: Sree chairs the Keystone meeting session "Synapses and Circuits, from Formation to Disease"

February: Congratulations Mike! Mike is awarded the NRSA!
2011: November: Chriss Presents at SfN

September: Sree Gives NIDA Talk

September: Katelynn Begins her Rotation in the lab

July: Vicky Begins her Rotation in the lab

February: Mike presents his poster 'CSP-alpha mediates neuroprotection through specific interactions' at Keystone Meeting
2010: December: Sree is awarded the Bumpus Grant!

November: Zhang Presents at SfN

September: Becket's paper 'aß?-Synuclein triple knockout mice reveal age-dependent neuronal dysfunction' is accepted to PNAS!

September: Zoe Begins her Rotation in the lab

July: Welcome to the Chandra Lab: We welcome Opeyemi Alabi (BioSTEP) and Michele Gomez (SURF), two summer students in the lab

June: Sree is awarded YCCI Scholar Award 'Maintaining Synaptic Connections in AD'

June: Rivka Begins her Rotation in the lab

May: Sree is awarded R01 on 'The Physiological Function of Synucleins'

May: Sree is happy to announce the birth of Ananya!

March: Andrew awarded Parkinson's Disease Foundation Summer Fellowship