May 2024: Navroop and Octavia’s paper on PTEN mutant neurons and organoids is published in Cell Reports.
February 2024: Wendy has been awarded a David Stephen Cant Graduate Scholarship in Stem Cell Research from the University of Toronto, Department of Molecular Genetics.
December 2023: Pragnya has been awarded a Restracomp postdoctoral fellowship.
October 2023: Sridevi Venkatesan has joined the lab as a Schmidt Science Fellow.
September 2023: Pragnya Chakraborty has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
July 2023: Our collaborative work with the Chou Lab on DNA origami nanodevice is published in Nature Nanotechnology.
May 2023: Juan Pablo Escorcia and Derek Tea have joined the lab as summer undergraduate students.
April 2023:
Mai has been awarded a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) fellowship.
Mai’s review paper on CRISPR screens in human neural cells is published in the Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.
October 2022: Haruka has been awarded a University of Toronto Open Fellowship, second year in a row!
September 2022: Mai Ahmed has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
August 2022: Octavia has been awarded a Restracomp PhD Scholarship.
July 2022: Yun is awarded the Maud Menten New Investigator Prize in Genetics from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
June 2022: Octavia, Haruka and Aditi successfully passed their re-class and qualification exams to become PhD candidates.
May 2022: Lucinda Zhu, Edward Chen, and Yolanda Liu have joined the lab as summer undergraduate students.
April 2022:
Wendy has been awarded a Canadian Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral award.
Liona successfully defended her MS thesis.
March 2022: Octavia’s review paper on human cellular models of epilepsy is published in the Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience.
February 2022: Our lab received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
January 2022: Xiaoxue Dong, PhD student from Zhejiang University, has joined the lab as a visiting graduate student.
December 2021:
Afrin and Wendy’s review paper on modeling developmental brain diseases using human brain organoids is published in the Journal of Molecular Biology.
Afrin has been awarded a David Stephen Cant Graduate Scholarship in Stem Cell Research from the University of Toronto, Department of Molecular Genetics.
November 2021: Haruka has been awarded a University of Toronto Open Fellowship.
October 2021: Our lab received funding from Epilepsy Canada.
September 2021: Yun is named a Future Leader in Canadian Brain Research by Brain Canada.
August 2021: Navroop and Wendy’s paper on a new brain organoid model of microcephaly is published in Molecular Brain.
May 2021: Our lab received funding from Medicine by Design Grand Questions Program, as part of a collaborative team led by Michael Garton.
October 2020: Our lab received funding from Stem Cell Network’s Innovating Research Program for Early Career Investigators.
September 2020:
Haruka Nishimura, Octavia Weng and Aditi Aggarwal have joined the lab as graduate students.
Octavia Weng and Wendy Choi have been awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarships.
August 2020: Our lab received funding from the Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation.
April 2020: Our lab received a Discovery Grant from NSERC to study primate brain evolution in the dish.
February 2020: Our review on brain organoids is published in the Journal of Neuroscience with a cover image.