Welcome John Le As Our New Lab Manager

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,…

Jarret Lowe joins the lab

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,…

Eunice Lands Prestigious GE Internship/Scholarship

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…

Dipak Patel joins the lab

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,…

Avery Twitchell-Heyne joins the lab

We are excited to have Avery Twitchell-Heyne join the lab. Avery is a graduate of Rice University with a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Under the current circumstances, she will be working from home to assist us in developing a comprehensive software suite for the analysis of cardio-respiratory waveforms (gotta do something in this…

New post-doc joining the lab (Savannah)!

We are excited to have our first post-doc, Savannah Barnett, joining the lab! Savannah did her Ph.D. work in the lab of Aihua Li at Dartmouth Medical School. Her thesis work was on the neurogenic role of high blood pressure in SH Rats, showing how a small subset of postnatally born hypothalamic neurons play a…