moniquinchen – Molecular Neurobiology

Ray Lab Attends Experimental Biology 2022

April 6, 2022

The Molecular Neurobiology Group (find us at @MolecularNeuro on Twitter) killed it at Experimental Biology 2022! The last Experimental Biology was a special one. Savannah, Chris, Yuan, and Dipak had a great time. Highlights included three outstanding posters by Chris, Savannah, and Yuan, Trainee breakfast flash talk by Savannah, and a great Featured Topic Seminar co-chaired by Savannah. Almost equally important was the food! Cheesesteaks, Roast Pork, Scrapple, and Pretzels to name a few. Tied everything off with a great…

Dr. Ray Presents at the COBAD Seminar Series

March 25, 2022

Talks and presentations

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It was a pleasure and honor to present with Dr. Blessing for our shared vision for a SIDS/SUID/SUDC Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine. Great feedback and enthusiasm from the CoBAD community!

Welcome John Le As Our New Lab Manager

February 15, 2022

Ray Lab

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As the lab continues to grow, we’re grateful to have John coming on board to help keep the train on the tracks and our research programs moving forward! His expertise in mouse EEG implants and recordings will also be a great addition to lab as we expand our work into the interface of breathing control, state, and emotional regulation.

New Lab Publication

January 28, 2022

Publications

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It’s official! Our intersectional genetic mouse engineering paper is finally out at BMC biology! All reagents and mouse lines described in the paper are freely available through Addgene and the MMRRC repository. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35086530/

SIDS Screening Grant Awarded

December 1, 2021

Funding

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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.

Savannah receives 2021 Trainee Professional Development Award

October 14, 2021

Awards

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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.

Jarret Lowe joins the lab

September 13, 2021

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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, starting up the breeding and handling for our upcoming SIDS genetic screen, and mouse phenotyping.