Tying off a great year in the lab with a holiday party and white elephant gift exchange. Thankful for everyone’s hard work throughout the year. Stage is set for an amazing 2022! [vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”601,597,596,595″]
It’s a go for launch! Our mutant screen in neonate mice for genes critical to protective respiratory reflexes is fully funded (#R01HL161142). Great work by everyone in the lab, especially Chris Ward and Eunice Aissi for their efforts in building our neonate phenotyping platform, making this exciting new direction in the lab possible.
Congratulations to Savannah on receiving a 2021 Trainee Professional Development Award! Savannah will be presenting a poster at SfN 2021 on a new respiratory analysis software platform for neural control of breathing studies.
I am pleased to welcome Jarrett Lowe to the lab! Jarrett comes from the Knock Out Mouse Project (KOMP) at Baylor College of Medicine. At KOMP he was involved in the high throughput production of mouse mutants for phenotyping as well as different phenotyping assays. In our lab, Jarrett will be involved in colony maintenance,…
Dr. Russell Ray, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at BCM, was just announced as a recipient of the 2022 Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award in the category of Teaching and Evaluation! Learn more about the award by clicking here.
In other fantastic news, undergraduate Ray Lab alum Eunice Aissi, has been offered a highly prestigious position at General Electric in their renewables division. Eunice won the position after presenting her work in the lab on the Automated Closed Loop Neonate Respiratory Measurement System. The position will allow her to gain valuable work experience while…
Dr. Ray was invited by the Mind Brain and Behavior Collaborative and the Center for Pediatric Neuroscience Seminar Series at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to present his research. The title of Dr. Ray’s talk was “Genetic Mapping of Central Noradrenergic Neurons Reveals Distinct Subpopulations Involved in Respiratory Homeostasis with Implications for SIDS and Rett Syndrome”.
Dr. Ray contributed a section of this workshop hosted by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: The Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Ventilatory Control. You can watch the presentation by clicking here.
The lab recently submitted an RO1 grant with the aim of utilizing a recently developed automated closed loop neonate respiratory assessment platform to screen mouse mutants from the BCM KOMP effort. KOMP, or the Knockout Mouse Project is an international effort to mutate and broadly phenotype every gene in the mouse genome. The grant will…
We are excited to welcome Dipak Patel to the lab as a new Graduate student in the lab. Dipak is a first year student in the Genetics and Genomics Program. Prior to coming to BCM Dipak did his Bachelor’s at Illinois State University. He also worked as Research Assistant at MD Anderson in yeast. Somehow,…