#TraineeTuesday

This #TraineeTuesday, meet Kyle King, an undergraduate researcher in the Yale Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Research Clinic!

This #TraineeTuesday, we are highlighting Rachel Oren, a graduate student in the Cardin and Higley Labs at Yale Neuro! She was recently awarded an F31 NRSA from the National Eye Institute.

This #TraineeTuesday, meet Leah Harmon, a graduate student in the Chandra Lab! She was recently awarded the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities in Washington DC.

This #TraineeTuesday, we are highlighting Chase Amos, a graduate student in the De Camilli Lab! He recently published a report in Contact on the connection between the two proteins VPS13A and XK in red blood cell precursors, and a paper in Molecular Biology of the Cell.

Please welcome Usman Farooq, PhD, this week's #TraineeTuesday star! This INP alum and current postdoc in the Dragoi Lab studies the hippocampus, a brain region critical for representing space and forming memories of episodes.

Meet Ben Sanders, a graduate student in the Lim Lab and this week's #TraineeTuesday star! He recently received an F31 grant from the National Institute on Aging for his research on the role of Nemo-Like Kinase in Alzheimer's Disease.

This #TraineeTuesday, welcome Nisha Mohd Rafiq, PhD, a former De Camilli Lab postdoc turned research group leader at University of Tübingen! Her new lab is part of the Interfaculty Institute for Biochemistry and Tübingen Neuro Campus (the university’s broader neuroscience network).

This #TraineeTuesday, meet Lamisa Musarat, a postgraduate researcher in the Higley Lab! She recently presented a poster at #SfN23 on "Temporal control of whole-brain GCaMP expression for long-term widefield imaging of cortical networks."

This #TraineeTuesday, please welcome associate research scientist Erika Hoyos-Ramirez, PhD, who was recently named a Canaan-Yale fellow! This fellowship recruits distinguished trainees in the life sciences to work with Canaan Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. Let's dive into her journey to becoming an entrepreneurial scientist.