Chen R, Gore F, Nguyen QA, Ramakrishnan C, Patel S, Kim SH, Raffiee M, Kim YS, Hsueh B, Krook-Magnusson E, Soltesz I, Deisseroth K.Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Oct 5. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0679-9. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33020604

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URee Chon has graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Pennsylvania State University. As a first year rotating Neuroscience graduate student at Stanford, she is mentored by Dr. Nguyen in the Soltesz lab.

Shreya Malhotra is a first-year medical student at Stanford. In the lab, she will be studying the role of hippocampal circuitry in epilepsy. She will be working closely with Dr. Dudok.

Jesslyn Homidan is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where she received her B.A. in Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology. At Berkeley, she worked as an undergraduate apprentice in Dr. Na Ji’s Lab conducting biophysics research on the thalamus and visual cortex. Jesslyn is excited about her new role as a Research Assistant in our lab.

Farrell JS, Colangeli R, Dudok B, Wolff MD, Nguyen SL, Jackson J, Dickson CT, Soltesz I, Teskey GC.Sci Rep. 2020 Sep 14;10(1):14992. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71935-6.PMID: 32929133

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Aaron Milstein has accepted his new position at Rutgers University. He is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Neuroscience and Cell Biology and the Dept. of Neurosurgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and a resident faculty member at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. As an Instructor mentored by Ivan Soltesz, Aaron developed large biologically-detailed neuronal network models to dissect the circuit components of memory and dysfunction in epilepsy.

The Soltesz Team is wishing him all the best in his new career path!

Barna Dudok received a K99/R00 Career Development Award, entitled “Perisomatic inhibition in epilepsy”. He will study the role of a specific type of GABAergic inhibitory interneuron (cholecystokinin-expressing basket cells) in controlling hippocampal network activity in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy using in vivo calcium imaging.

Addiction. 2019 Aug;114(8):1343-1345. doi: 10.1111/add.14540. Epub 2019 Jan 18. PubMed PMID: 30589476; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6597308. (more…)

Sandra is an experienced Research Laboratory Services Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry for more than 5 years. Skilled in Molecular Biology, Cell Culture, Life Sciences, Microscopy as well as cell biology techniques that utilize laser-based technology to simultaneous multi-parametric analyze physical and chemical characteristics of tissues or cells. She is a strong research professional with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) focused in Nutritional Science from University Hohenheim and a Business Administration background for more than 9 years. She has been working the last 5 years in the Genetics Department at Stanford and is now excited about her new role within the Soltesz Lab.

Acharya MM, Baulch JE, Klein PM, Baddour AAD, Apodaca LA, Kramár EA, Alikhani L, Garcia C Jr, Angulo MC, Batra RS, Fallgren CM, Borak TB, Stark CEL, Wood MA, Britten RA, Soltesz I, Limoli CL.eNeuro. 2019 Aug 22;6(4):ENEURO.0094-19.2019. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0094-19.2019. Print 2019 Jul/Aug.PMID: 31383727

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