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Lab Outings<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"96\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t96 photos\n\t

Stay Gold<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"15\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t15 photos\n\t

Becoming A Ph.D.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"46\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t46 photos\n\t

Illustrious Scientists & Friends<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"55\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t55 photos\n

\n\t\tThe MCM Lab Chronicle (2008- )\n\t<\/h3>\n\t

Graduate student I-Ching Wang<\/a> successfully defended and graduated! <\/p>\n\t

June 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\tCommencement Ceremony 2023 @ Houston
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April 2023<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate student James Okoh<\/a> successfully defended and graduated! He’ll be joining Altos Labs soon.<\/p>\n\t

March 2023<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate student Jacqunae Mays<\/a> successfully defended and graduated!<\/p>\n\t

June 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate student Yuwei Liu<\/a> successfully defended and graduated!<\/p>\n\t

Apr 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Mauro started his new position as a founding principal investigator at Altos Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t

Apr 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate student Sean Dooling<\/a> successfully defended and graduated!<\/p>\n\t

Nov 2021<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZhu et al. published ” Activation of the ISR mediates the behavioral and neurophysiological abnormalities in Down syndrome” in Science. \"\ud83d\udd17\"\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

Nov 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChen et al. published ” Therapeutic inhibition of mTORC2 rescues the behavioral and neurophysiological abnormalities associated with Pten-deficiency” in Nature Medicine. \"\ud83d\udd17\"\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

Oct 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohnson et al. published “Inhibition of Upf2-Dependent Nonsense-Mediated Decay Leads to Behavioral and Neurophysiological Abnormalities by Activating the Immune Response” in Neuron. \"\ud83d\udd17\"\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

Oct 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate student Chien-Ju Chen<\/a> successfully defended and graduated!<\/p>\n\t

Sep 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Mauro started his sabbatical in the Walter Lab<\/a> at UCSF<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t

July 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Bon Voyage Dani<\/a>, see you in Cork!<\/p>\n

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July 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate student Iching<\/a>\u00a0started her exchange study in Hailan Hu Lab<\/a> at Zhejiang University<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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July 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Mauro and the new graduate Sanjeev<\/a> attended the Baylor College of Medicine 2019 Commencement Ceremony. (Photo credit: Peter Tu)<\/p>\n

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May 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate student James<\/a> joined the MCM lab!<\/p>\n\t

May 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate student Sanjeev Khatiwada<\/a> successfully defended and graduated!<\/p>\n\t

March 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Congrats to Mauro on promotion to professor!<\/p>\n\t

December 2018<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSgritta et al. published “Mechanisms Underlying Microbial-Mediated Changes in Social Behavior in Mouse Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder” in Neuron. \"\ud83d\udd17\"\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

January, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Khalel<\/a> joined our lab as a research technician!<\/p>\n\t

October 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Shelly<\/a> established her own lab in UTMB in Galveston!<\/p>\n\t

January, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate students Yuwei<\/a> and Jacqunae<\/a> successfully passed their qualifying exam and became Ph.D. candidates!<\/p>\n\t

June, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZhu et al. published “mTORC2, but not mTORC1, is required for hippocampal mGluR-LTD and associated behaviors” in Nature Neuroscience. \"\ud83d\udd17\"\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

June, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate student Iching<\/a> joined the MCM lab!<\/p>\n\t

May, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate student Jennifer Johnson<\/a> successfully defended and graduated!<\/p>\n\t

November, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSanjeev Khatiwada published his opinion piece in Houston Chronicle on addiction research. \"\ud83d\udd17\"\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

August, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Sean<\/a> finished Boston Marathon!<\/p>\n

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Moved the finishing line to lab<\/p><\/div>\n

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Marina got cake for Sean!<\/p><\/div>\n\t

April 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Graduate students Yuwei<\/a> and Jacqunae<\/a> joined our lab!<\/p>\n\t

May, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBuffington et al. published “Microbial Reconstitution Reverses Maternal DietInduced Social and Synaptic Deficits in Offspring” in Cell. \"\ud83d\udd17\"\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

June, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n\t

Our lab staff scientist Hongyi<\/a> celebrated her 10 years in BCM!<\/p>\n\t

July, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHuang et al. published “mTORC2 controls actin polymerization required for consolidation of long-term memory” in Nature Neuroscience. \"\ud83d\udd17\"\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

March, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZhu et al. published “Suppression of PKR Promotes Network Excitability and Enhanced Cognition by Interferon-\u03b3-Mediated Disinhibition” in Cell. \"\ud83d\udd17\"\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

December, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n\t

The MCM Lab was born.<\/p>\n\t

2008<\/em><\/p>\n\t

The Costa-Mattioli Lab<\/a> \/ Altos Labs<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9\u00a02023 The MCM lab all rights reserved<\/p>\n

Website contents curated by MCM, Yuwei Liu and Christina Myhre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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