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November 2024
The lab goes to GBSfN!
October 2024
The lab goes to SfN in Chicago!
Ashley and Sydnee presented their work, and we enjoyed the Chicago skyline. We also ran into LeGates lab alum Roshae Roberts who is now a PhD student at UC Irvine!
July 2024
The lab receives funding from NSF!
Thanks NSF!
June 2024
The lab welcomes a new PhD student!
Yay Tori!
May 2024
Paper accepted at Journal of Neuroscience!
Check out our work on sex differences in plasticity at Hipp-NAc synapses here! https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/05/24/JNEUROSCI.0100-24.2024
Ashley selected as a Rising Star in Neuroscience!
February 2024
The lab does math!
Awesome rotation student, Matyas Marek, presents his work on refining computational models of neurons!
January 2024
Ashley’s paper is up on biorxiv!
Check out our work on sex differences in plasticity at Hipp-NAc synapses!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.15.575709v1.article-info
December 2023
The lab wins the ornament contest!
That’s right! Our awesome ornament took home the big prize at the Department of Biological Sciences holiday party!
November 2023
The lab goes to SfN!
Ashley did a great job presenting her work! We also had a great time meeting new people, catching up with old friends, and learning about the amazing science that others are doing!
The lab tie dyes lab coats!
We decided to upgrade our lab coats! Stay tuned for the finished product!
September 2023
Tori rotates and patches!
Tori Sproat, first year rotation student, has started her rotation and is already patching cells!!
June 2023
The LeGates Lab goes to the Excitatory Synapses and Brain Function Gordon Research Conference in Les Diablerets Switzerland!
Tara and Ashley presented some of the latest work from the lab, learned about exciting new findings from leaders in the field, and had great discussions with amazing scientists! And of course enjoyed the amazing landscapes, chocolate, and cheese!
May 2023
Graduation!
Congratulations Maya, Eden, Sara, and Trinity!
End of the year celebration
The group got together to celebrate the everyone’s successes and bid farewell to graduating students. Congratulations Maya, Eden, Sara, and Trinity!
Sydnee and Maya recognized at the U-RISE Celebration
Sydnee Vance was officially induced into the U-RISE program, and Maya Tondravi was honored as a graduating senior. So proud of these amazing young scientists!
March 2023
Sydnee Vance accepted into the U-RISE program!
Amazing undergraduate student Sydnee Vance will join U-RISE, an NIH funded program research training program. This will support her ongoing projects in the lab while preparing her for her future goal of going to graduate school! Congratulations Sydnee!
November 2022
Tara attends the Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology Ceremony
Covid may have delayed our in person celebration in 2020, but Eppendorf and AAAS made sure that we were all able to come together at Neuroscience 2022 in San Diego. The celebration and alumni meeting were spectacular!
October 2022
Ashley is promoted to Ph.D. candidacy
A great chance to celebrate moving on to the next phase of her graduate career!
June 2022
ILSB lab olympics
We didn’t win, but we were definitely best dressed!
May 2022
Alyssa Foster, Sara Motamedi, and Roshnee Roberts receive URAs!
Undergraduate Research Awards (URAs) support projects proposed by the students.