Lab news

5/2024 Yvette’s review article is out! Octopamine enhances learning

5/2024 Jessica wins the Jeffery A. Winer Memorial Prize in Neurobiology!!

10/2023 The lab receives an EFRI BRAID grant from the National Science Foundation!

7/2023 Mark is named a 2023 Jane Coffin Childs Fellow. Congratulations Mark!

4/2023 Jessica is awarded a SURF summer fellowship. Congratulations Jessica!

4/2023 Lily is awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowships. Congratulations Lily!

1/2023 Mark is a finalist for a Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship. Congratulations Mark!

11/2022 Yvette’s paper with Michael Marquis, Isabel D’Alessandro and Rachel Wilson from her postdoctoral research titled Dopamine promotes head direction plasticity during orienting movements is published! Also check out the News and Views highlight!

11/2022 First lab baby is born! Welcome to the world!

9/2022 The lab receives a NIH Director's New Innovator Award!

7/2022 Yvette is named Klingenstein-Simons Fellow!

6/2022 The lab receives a seed grant from the Brain Research Foundation!

6/2022 Mark joins the lab at a Postdoctoral Fellow! Welcome Mark!

5/2022 Lily and Tianhao join the lab for their thesis research! Welcome to you both!!

4/2022 Our review article Flexible navigational computations in the Drosophila central complex is published!

3/2022 The lab receives a grant from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation. Thank you for supporting our work!

2/2022 Yvette is named Sloan Research Fellow!

1/2022 Yvette becomes a CZ Biohub investigator. Thank you CZ Biohub for supporting our work!

10/2021 Jessica joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Jessica!

9/2021 Moving into our newly renovated lab space!

5/2021 Our work on homeostatic signaling in the compass network receives funding from the Rennie Fund! Thank you!

5/2021 Yvette and the flies arrive in Berkeley!

12/2020 Yvette presents in the Allen Showcase symposium, check out her talk here

11/2020 Yvette has been selected to serve as an Allen Institute Next Generation Leader!

7/2020 Yvette is speaking at FENS 2020 Virtual within the central complex session (July 15th 13-14:30, GMT+1)

4/2020 Yvette accepts a faculty position in the Berkeley MCB department! Lab will open July 2021!!