Latest News from Vaccarino Lab
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
- June 03, 2024Source: Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Congratulations to Soraya Scuderi, associate research scientist in the Vaccarino lab, for receiving a 2024 Postdoc Mentor Award!
- May 31, 2024
The Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) community came together via Zoom on May 29, 2024 to recognize long-term service to the university. Forty-eight community members were honored for their respective years of service at Yale, from 5 up to 45 years.
- March 20, 2024
An openness to collaboration is just one factor in the popularity of team science at YSM.
- March 12, 2024
The newly announced election brings the number of AAP members from Yale to 53.
- March 04, 2024
YCSC Harris Professor Flora Vaccarino, MD has been elected to membership in the Association of American Physicians (AAP) and will be introduced at a formal AAP dinner on Saturday, April 6, 2024 as part of the the AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting at the Swissôtel Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
- February 12, 2024
New community members are welcomed to the Yale Child Study Center on an on-going basis, and all new faculty, staff, and trainees are invited to share bios and photos upon joining the department. This month, a belated welcome is extended to Abhiram Natu, PhD, who joined the Vaccarino Lab as a postdoctoral associate in early December, in addition to Elizabeth Hentschel, MSc, PhD who joined in early January, and a more recent addition, Guilherme Pimenta Roncete. Learn more about some of the new community members who have submitted bios.
- January 05, 2024Source: AUTISM ADVOCATE Parenting Magazine
A recent study led by Dr. Flora Vaccarino explored the different cell types in cortical organoids to gain a better understanding of the development of macrocephaly in autistic individuals.
- November 09, 2023Source: Simons Foundation
SFARI Investigators Flora Vaccarino at Yale University and Alexej Abyzov at Mayo Clinic used brain organoids to investigate neurobiological mechanisms linking brain size with idiopathic autism (autism without a known cause) (Jourdon et al., Nat. Neurosci., 2023).
- November 08, 2023Source: Yale Child Study Center
Alex Nelson (Yale Undergraduate) discusses how induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are used as a tool to better understand neurodevelopmental disorders in the Vaccarino Lab.