2025
Kaylee wins best talk at Biosci retreat
… and we took another lab photo, courtesy of biosci GSA for providing a photographer.
New members and paper accepted
Alexander Fisch joins the lab as a Biological Sciences PhD.
Elysia Gauthier joins the lab as a Pharmacology PhD.
Kaylee Yeager joins the lab as Biosci PhD.
Jove manuscript accepted
Lab party to celebrate victories and say bye to two awesome lab members. Natalie Clark is off to grad school to pursue an anthropology PhD and Nathan Stanko is off to medical school. Congrats to you both!
Awards aplenty
Kaylee gets NSF GRFP honorable mention!
Alex selected as Sloan Research Fellow in neuroscience! Thank you to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for the honor.
Elysia is accepted into Vanderbilt CBMS training grant
Usma is awarded a Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research fellowship.
Congrats everyone!
Lab lunch to celebrate!
2024
Lab presents at SPONT 2024 in Altea, Spain
Natalie (middle) and Nate (right) presented recent lab work
The postdoc generations from Marla’s lab. From left to right: Juliana Rosa, Alex Tiriac, Marla Feller, and Rachana Somaiya
Lab’s first paper is out!
Lab’s first paper published in Nature Communications. Congrats everyone on a huge team effort to get this done! (Development and organization of the retinal orientation selectivity map.)
Alex selected as the Hooley Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow
Thank you to the Hooley family for supporting our lab’s research mission.