Friday, December 5 was our Book Club and Annual Cookie Swap! We discussed Brave Genius by Sean Carroll and reflected on how important it is to understand how events in WWII impacted scientists in order to understand how current events are affecting scientists today. We had a wealth of treats on the table and guest cookie appearances as well! Dr. Tim Mosca from Thomas Jefferson University sent some freshly baked peanut-butter cup cookies for everyone to enjoy. And Nadine Now

Karla and Reza hosted lab members and their families that were around for the Thanksgiving holiday for Thanksgiving dinner at their place this year. We decorated gingerbread houses, then lamb, turkey and a plethora of vegetarian side dishes were served, and later John mediated a rousing game of the Werewolf.

Karla and first year NSGP student Amelia Harman attended the 2025 Society for Neuroscience Conference in San Diego November 15-19. They caught up on the latest in neurogenetics, addiction and synapse growth and formation and enjoyed catching up with friends and lab alumni and collaborator Kristin Scaplen at the IBANGS Breakfast. Highlights were a Meet-the-Expert talk by Daniel Colon-Ramos, A Taylor Swift-inspired talk on engrams by Sheena Josselyn, learning about new transmi

Lab Meeting October 31, 2025 was in homage to Halloween as we all decorated pumkpins while updating everyone on our projects. Exchange student Matthew Kim (a graduate student visiting from Marla Sokolowski's lab at the University of Toronto) treated us all to Buffalo chicken dip, and we welcomed Pathobiology graduate student Nola Ihejirika as she completed her first week of her rotation in the lab.