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The MCM Lab Chronicle (2008- )

Graduate student I-Ching Wang successfully defended and graduated!

June 2024

Commencement Ceremony 2023 @ Houston

April 2023

Graduate student James Okoh successfully defended and graduated! He'll be joining Altos Labs soon.

March 2023

Graduate student Jacqunae Mays successfully defended and graduated!

June 2022

Graduate student Yuwei Liu successfully defended and graduated!

Apr 2022

Mauro started his new position as a founding principal investigator at Altos Labs.

Apr 2022

Graduate student Sean Dooling successfully defended and graduated!

Nov 2021

Zhu et al. published " Activation of the ISR mediates the behavioral and neurophysiological abnormalities in Down syndrome" in Science. πŸ”—

Nov 2019

Chen et al. published " Therapeutic inhibition of mTORC2 rescues the behavioral and neurophysiological abnormalities associated with Pten-deficiency" in Nature Medicine. πŸ”—

Oct 2019

Johnson et al. published "Inhibition of Upf2-Dependent Nonsense-Mediated Decay Leads to Behavioral and Neurophysiological Abnormalities by Activating the Immune Response" in Neuron. πŸ”—

Oct 2019

Graduate student Chien-Ju Chen successfully defended and graduated!

Sep 2019

Mauro started his sabbatical in the Walter Lab at UCSF.

July 2019

Bon Voyage Dani, see you in Cork!

July 2019

Graduate student IchingΒ started her exchange study in Hailan Hu Lab at Zhejiang University.

July 2019

Mauro and the new graduate Sanjeev attended the Baylor College of Medicine 2019 Commencement Ceremony. (Photo credit: Peter Tu)

May 2019

Graduate student James joined the MCM lab!

May 2019

Graduate student Sanjeev Khatiwada successfully defended and graduated!

March 2019

Congrats to Mauro on promotion to professor!

December 2018

Sgritta et al. published "Mechanisms Underlying Microbial-Mediated Changes in Social Behavior in Mouse Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder" in Neuron. πŸ”—

January, 2019

Khalel joined our lab as a research technician!

October 2019

Shelly established her own lab in UTMB in Galveston!

January, 2019

Graduate students Yuwei and Jacqunae successfully passed their qualifying exam and became Ph.D. candidates!

June, 2018

Zhu et al. published "mTORC2, but not mTORC1, is required for hippocampal mGluR-LTD and associated behaviors" in Nature Neuroscience. πŸ”—

June, 2018

Graduate student Iching joined the MCM lab!

May, 2018

Graduate student Jennifer Johnson successfully defended and graduated!

November, 2017

Sanjeev Khatiwada published his opinion piece in Houston Chronicle on addiction research. πŸ”—

August, 2017

Sean finished Boston Marathon!

Moved the finishing line to lab

Marina got cake for Sean!

April 2017

Graduate students Yuwei and Jacqunae joined our lab!

May, 2017

Buffington et al. published "Microbial Reconstitution Reverses Maternal DietInduced Social and Synaptic Deficits in Offspring" in Cell. πŸ”—

June, 2016

Our lab staff scientist Hongyi celebrated her 10 years in BCM!

July, 2015

Huang et al. published "mTORC2 controls actin polymerization required for consolidation of long-term memory" in Nature Neuroscience. πŸ”—

March, 2013

Zhu et al. published "Suppression of PKR Promotes Network Excitability and Enhanced Cognition by Interferon-Ξ³-Mediated Disinhibition" in Cell. πŸ”—

December, 2011

The MCM Lab was born.

2008

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