News
4.20.2024
Many congratulations to undergraduate students Ethan Wan and Angela Cleere, who are both graduating in Spring 2024. Both Ethan and Angela have contributed enormously to ongoing and published lab projects in the past few years, resulting in several publications, poster awards, summer training programs, and elite research scholarships. Ethan will now being his MD training at UAB, and Angela will be moving to the Medical College of Wisconsin to enter a PhD program in Pharmacology. Both will be missed!
4.16.2024
Congratulations to lab undergraduate trainee Angela Cleere on receiving first place poster presentation honors at the 2024 John W.P. Ost Undergraduate Research Competitiion in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences! Angela’s presentation focused on the molecular mechanisms by which opioids alter gene expression programs in non-neuronal cells in the brain, including astrocytes.
3.4.2024
Lab MD/PhD student Kasey Brida is awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral NRSA (F30) from NIDA! The purpose of this Kirschstein-NRSA F30 program is to enhance the integrated research and clinical training of promising predoctoral students in combined MD/PhD training programs, and who intend careers as physician-scientists. This award will support Kasey's stipend and provide an institutional allowance for career development activities. Congratulations Kasey!
12.6.2023
Dr. Day is elected as a member into the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). ACNP is a professional international organization of leading brain scientists. Selected primarily on the basis of their original research contributions, the membership of the College is drawn from scientists in diverse subfields of neuroscience, including behavioral pharmacology, clinical psychopharmacology, epidemiology, genetics, molecular biology, neurochemistry, neuroendocrinology, neuroimaging, neuroimmunology, neurophysiology, neurology, psychiatry, and psychology.
10.19.2023
A special issue of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience (co-edited by Jeremy Day and Anne West from Duke University) is now available online! This issue focused on genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in substance use and substance use disorders. Former winners of the NIDA Avenir Award program were invited to submit original research or review articles on their Avenir topic. This special issue also features an introduction piece by NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow. The entire issue can be found at the link below.
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9.14.2023
Congratulations to lab trainees Kasey Brida, Dalton Fitzgerald, and Angela Cleere for earning distinguished presentation/poster honors at the 2023 Comprehensive Neuroscience Center retreat! Kasey was awarded the First Place ($500) award for the platform presentation category, and both Dalton and Angela received honorable mention for the poster presentation category.
8.29.2023
Lab postdoctoral fellow Dr. Nathaniel Robinson receives a prestigious Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience! This award provides free registration and travel funds for Nathaniel to attend and present research at the 2023 Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC. Congratulations Nathaniel!
7.1.2023
Lab postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jennifer Tuscher accepts an offer to start her independent lab as a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Medical College of Wisconsin! Jen will start this position in Fall 2023. Jen’s work in her independent lab will be supported by a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from NIMH. Congrats Jen!
7.1.2023
Lab MSTP student Dalton Fitzgerald earns a competitive position on the Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders T32 program, which is supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Congratulations Dalton!
6.8.2023
Lab MSTP student Kasey Brida receives a 2023 Emerging Scholar Award from the Civitan International Research Center. This award provides $25,000 for Kasey’s project examining the developmental effects of Reelin protein in the striatum. Congratulations Kasey!
5.23.2023
Lab trainee Robert Phillips successfully defends his PhD dissertation! Robert will now move on to a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Keri Martinowich at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development. Congrats Robert!
4.25.2023
Lab postdoctoral fellow Dr. Emily Jorgensen receives a prestigious F32 National Research Service Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This 3-year grant will support Emily’s research on the role of potassium channels in drug-related neuronal plasticity. Congrats Emily!
4.15.2023
Two lab trainees have been admitted to PhD programs in neuroscience! Emma Andraka, a student in the Master of Science Program in Multidisciplinary Biomedical Science (MSMBS) program, will pursue her graduate studies at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Adi Maese, a trainee in the UAB PREP program, will pursue her PhD at the University of Utah. Congratulations to both Adi and Emma!
4.1.2023
Three lab undergraduate trainees have been selected for highly competitive summer research programs. Lab neuroscience undergraduate student Ethan Wan will be attending a summer program at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York. Angela Cleere and Lydia Slocum were both selected for the UAB Summer Research Academy, allowing them to remain in the lab over the summer to pursue ongoing research projects. Congrats to all!
3.31.2023
Lab neuroscience undergraduate student Ethan Wan is awarded a Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship is a federally supported scholarship program honoring Senator Barry Goldwater, and is intended to support outstanding students in pursuit of research careers in the fields of the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics. The Goldwater Scholarship is the preeminent under-graduate award of its type in these fields. Congrats Ethan!
3.23.2023
Lab MS student Emma Andraka successfully defends her thesis work exploring a poorly characterized cell type in the nucleus accumbens that expresses the mu opioid receptor. Emma plans to complete a PhD in neuroscience next, and has offers to join a number of PhD programs in neuroscience (UNC, UAB, Mt. Sinai, Cornell, and NYU). Congrats Emma!
2.1.2023
The lab receives a Blue Flame Award from Addgene in recognition of lab plasmids that have been requested over 100 times from the Addgene plasmid repository. The awarded plasmids were generated and validated by several previous lab trainees, including Dr. Katherine Savell, Dr. Svitlana Bach, Jasmin Revanna, Dr. Morgan Zipperly, and Dr. Faraz Sultan. Congratulations all!
1.25.2023
Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jennifer Tuscher receives “First Place Outstanding Poster Award” at the 2023 Winter Conference for Brain Research in Snowbird, Utah. Congratulations Jen!
7.10.2022
Lab PhD student Robert Phillips is named a 2022-2023 UAB Carmichael Scholar in recognition of his excellence in research! This award goes to the top graduating PhD student in the UAB Graduate School, across all programs. Congratulations Robert!
6.30.2022
Lab postdoctoral fellow Dr. Nathaniel Robinson receives the Whit Mallory Emerging Scholar Award from the UAB Civitan International Research Center. The award comes with $25,000 to support Nathaniel's research on the role of TCF4 in striatal development. Congrats Nathaniel!
5.9.2022
Lab postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jen Tuscher receives a K99/R00 “Pathway to Independence” award from the National Institute of Mental Health. This highly competitive award will enable Jen to continue her research into the molecular mechanisms by which sex steroid hormones contribute to memory formation, and will facilitate Jen’s transition to her independent research lab. Congrats Jen!!
5.1.2022
The Day Lab receives a new 5-year R01 award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the role of activity-dependent DNA modifications in psychostimulant reward.
4.5.2022
Our work using single-nucleus RNA sequencing and multiplexed in situ hybridization to characterize the cellular diversity of the ventral tegmental area is published in Cell Reports. This project was led by PhD student Robert Phillips and Postdoctoral Fellow Jen Tuscher, with key contributions from several other lab members. Congrats to all!
3.1.2022
Dr. Day takes the reins as Director of the UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center (CNC). The CNC is a network of more than 450 UAB Neuroscience research faculty, clinicians, staff, students, and trainees, with membership from 32 UAB departments and 9 UAB schools. The CNC serves as a focal point for basic and applied neuroscience research at UAB.
12.15.2021
The Day Lab receives a 2022 Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award from the McKnight Foundation. This award will support a collaborative project with Dr. Ian Maze (HHMI, Mt. Sinai SOM) to use genomic enhancer elements to target neuronal populations that are responsive to drugs of abuse. Read more here and here.
9.27.2021
Congrats to lab postdoctoral fellow Nathaniel Robinson on receiving an appointment to the UAB-HudsonAlpha Genomic Medicine PostDoctoral Training Program! This program is funded by an institutional Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) T32 grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute.
9.23.2021
Lab postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jen Tuscher receives the 2021 UAB "Most Esteemed Postdoc" Award! This award is given annually to the postdoc with the most impressive CV (number of peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations and posters). Congrats Jen!!
7.1.2021
The Day Lab receives a new 5-year R01 award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the molecular and cellular roles of Reelin, a large secreted extracellular protein, in drug-related plasticity. Thanks to PhD students Robert Phillips and Kasey Brida for pushing this project forward!
5.24.2021
Lab PhD student Robert Phillips is appointed to the UAB Cognition and Cognitive Disorders T32 Training Grant for the 2021-2022 academic year. Congrats Robert!
2.19.2021
Major congrats to Day Lab undergraduate student Saakshi Thukral. In the span of one month, Saakshi received the 2021 “Outstanding Student” Award from the UAB Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, the 2021 Blazer Way Award from UAB, and the 2021 UAB College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for outstanding undergraduate students. Congrats to Saakshi on all of these incredible honors.
12.14.2020
Jenna Hinds joins the lab as a Research Technician. Jenna completed her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at UAB where she completed a research thesis in the Day Lab under the direction of Nancy Carullo. Welcome Jenna!
12.9.2020
Jeremy is elected to American College of Neuropsychopharmacology as an Associate Member.
11.23.2020
Bekah McMahan joins the Day lab as a Lab Manager. Bekah obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Montevallo prior to completing a Master’s degree in Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University, where she worked in the lab of Jeff Neul. Welcome Bekah!
10.30.2020
Lab PhD student Nancy Carullo successfully defends her PhD. Nancy will pursue postdoctoral studies in the lab of Isabelle Mansuy at the University of Zurich. Congratulations Nancy!
9.15.2020
Our work identifying a critical role for Gadd45b in cocaine-related memory and dopamine-driven transcriptional and epigenetic effects is published in Neuropsychopharmacology. Congrats to first author Morgan Zipperly, as well as Faraz Sultan and Guan-En Graham, who both played essential roles in bringing this work to completion.
9.15.2020
Our paper validating a new CRISPRi tool in neurons is published in Frontiers in Genome Editing. Congrats to lead author Corey Duke, as well as Svitlana Bach and Jasmin Revanna for key contributions.
8.25.2020
Lab postdoctoral fellow Jen Tuscher receives a 2-year Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. This award provides $70,000 in research funds to enable promising investigators to extend research fellowship training and begin careers as independent research faculty. Congrats Jen!
8.18.2020
Our work characterizing the role of genomic enhancers and enhancer RNAs in neuronal activity-dependent gene transcription is published in Nucleic Acids Research. Congrats to Nancy Carullo, who led the project, and also Robert Phillips and Rhiana Simon, who played key roles in conceptualization and data collection.
7.17.2020
Day lab MD/PhD student Morgan Zipperly successfully defends her PhD - congrats Morgan!
6.24.2020
Our work using single-nucleus RNA sequencing and CRISPR tools to understand molecular mechanisms of psychostimulant experience is published in Science Advances - congrats to Katherine, Jen, Morgan, Corey, and Robert for their work on this large team project!
6.24.2020
Day lab MD/PhD student Corey Duke successfully defends his PhD - congrats Corey! Corey will now transition back to the clinic as part of continued training for the MD component of his program.
6.3.2020
Dr. Day joins Board of Reviewing editors at eLife.
12.3.2019
Day lab undergraduate student Darya Hosein wins poster award at the UAB Fall Undergraduate Research EXPO for her work on estrogenic regulation of neuronal function. Congrats Darya!
6.10.2019
The Day Lab receives a 2-year R21 research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to understand the molecular mechanisms in dopamine neurons that underlie the role of these cells in reward learning.
5.26.2019
Day lab undergraduate student Saakshi Thukral receives poster prize at the 2nd Annual World Congress for Undergraduate Research held at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. Saakshi’s abstract was chosen from hundreds of abstracts for a poster presentation, and her poster won top honors in the “Create” category. Congrats Saakshi!
5.16.2019
Katherine successfully defends her PhD Dissertation! Katherine is now moving on to a postdoctoral fellowship with Bruce Hope at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, Maryland.
5.15.2019
Dr. Day receives UAB School of Medicine Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. Link
4.2.2019
Dr. Day receives UAB Graduate School Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship. Link
3.28.2019
Day lab undergraduate student Natalie Simpkins receives summer fellowship as part of the UAB Clinical Innovations Program. Congrats Natalie! Additionally, lab undergraduate Nicholas Southern was selected for a summer internship at Q-State Biosciences in Boston. Congrats Nick!
2.12.2019
Day lab undergraduate student Jasmin Revanna selected as a 2019 recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award. This award is given to the top student in the college, following a highly competitive nomination process from within each academic program. Congrats Jasmin!
1.27.2019
Our paper on adaptation of CRISPR activation for neuronal systems has been accepted for publication in eNeuro. This work was headed by Katherine Savell and Svitlana Bach, but was a team effort involving a substantial fraction of the lab. This manuscript details significant alterations to available CRISPR/dCas9 tools in order to achieve robust and efficient gene regulation in neurons. This system provides a specific, modular, and multiplexable platform for titratable upregulation of selected genes both in vivo and in vitro, without the need for a specific transgenic animal. The plasmids outlined in this manuscript are available on Addgene. Congrats to everyone that assisted in completion of this manuscript!
1.24.2019
Day lab undergraduate student Jasmin Revanna selected as a 2019 Outstanding Student for the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program. Congrats Jasmin!
1.24.2019
Nancy’s review on genomic enhancers is published in Genes. Congrats Nancy!
9.11.2018
Day lab PhD student Nancy Gallus receives a 2018 Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience. In addition to support to attend the 2018 Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, this award gives recipients a chance to present an abstract in a poster session, meet peers, and network with senior scientists. Congrats Nancy!
6.27.2018
The Day Lab receives a grant supplement from NIDA and the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health to expand our studies on transcriptional and epigenetic changes following drug experience to female animals. We are excited to continue this work with additional support and begin examining sex differences in drug abuse models. Congrats to postdoctoral fellow Jennifer Tuscher for her outstanding contribution here.
6.27.2018
Day lab MD/PhD students Corey Duke and Morgan Zipperly receive competitive spots on institutional T32 training grant. Corey was awarded his second year on the Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders T32, and Morgan was awarded her first year on the Cellular and Molecular Biology T32. Congrats Corey and Morgan!
6.13.2018
Lab graduate student Nancy Carullo was selected for an IBRO fellowship to attend the 2018 EMCCS and FENS meetings in Berlin, Germany. As part of this fellowship Nancy will give a research presentation at EMCCS. Congrats Nancy!
6.11.2018
The Day Lab receives a 5-year R01 research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to understand the role of enhancers and enhancer RNAs in neuronal function.
4.16.2018
Lab undergraduate student Jasmin Revanna wins third place award in UAB's inaugural Video Research Award competition. Following this, Jasmin won an outstanding poster prize at the Stanford Research Conference. Congrats to Jasmin on both accomplishments!
3.23.2018
Lab undergraduate students Natalie Simpkins and Saakshi Thukral both received UAB Presidential Summer Fellowships to participate in lab research projects this coming summer. Congrats to Natalie and Saakshi!
3.15.2018
Lab undergraduate student Guan-En Graham accepted into Ph.D. Neuroscience program at Rutgers University. Congratulations Guan-En!
3.15.2018
Lab undegraduate student Aaron Salisbury and lab REU student Julia Burke were both selected for year-long post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Awards at the NIH. These prestigious awards offer stipend support and research training at NIH intramural research campuses. Congrats to Aaron and Julia!
3.1.2018
Lab undergraduate student Jasmin Revanna selected for prestigious WAVE Fellowship. Jasmin will temporarily leave us in the summer of 2018 to pursue a research project at CalTech. Congrats Jasmin!
10.2.2017
Lab REU student Julia Burke wins NSF REU travel award to attend the 2017 Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC. Congrats Julia!
10.1.2017
Postdoctoral Fellow Jen Tuscher joins the lab. Jen received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in Karyn Frick's lab, where she studied estrogenic regulation of hippocampal learning and memory. In the Day Lab, Jen hopes to study molecular and epigenetic mechanisms that regulate the effects of 17B-estradiol on memory. Welcome Jen!
9.7.2017
Day lab PhD student Katherine Savell is named a recipient of a 2017 Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience. In addition to support to attend the 2017 Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC, this award gives recipients a chance to present an abstract in a poster session, meet peers, and network with senior scientists. Congrats Katherine!
9.6.2017
Day lab PhD student Nancy Gallus wins the 2017 Whit Mallory Award, the top student award given by the Civitan International Research Center's Emerging Scholars program. The award comes with $25,000 in stipend and research support. Congratulations Nancy!
8.10.2017
Summer Program in Neuroscience (SPIN) student Julia Burke wins top presentation award in SPIN presentation symposium. This makes her eligible for additional NSF resources for travel funding. Congrats Julia!
7.5.2017
Day lab MD/PhD student Corey Duke receives a competitive spot on the institutional T32 training grant in Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders. Congrats Corey!
6.20.2017
Corey's paper on transcriptional and DNA regulatory modifications in hippocampus-dependent memory formation is published in Learning & Memory! Corey's Circos plot is featured on the cover of the journal edition as well. Congrats Corey!
5.23.2017
Lab MD/PhD student Corey Duke selected to attend the 2017 CSHL course on Chromatin, Epigenetics, and Gene Expression. Corey was awarded the CSHL Helmsley Charitable Trust Scholarship to attend this selective course.
4.14.2017
Day Lab undergraduate student Michael Vivian awarded a prestigious spot in the UAB-Genentech Scholars program, which will allow him to pursue a full-time research project in the lab this summer. Congratulations Mike!
3.14.2017
Day Lab undergraduate student Jasmin Revanna accepted to the 2017 Amgen Scholars Program. Jasmin will temporarily leave us in the summer of 2017 to pursue a project at CalTech. Congrats Jasmin!
2.13.2017
Congrats to Day Lab graduate student Katherine Savell, who received a 3-year National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse!
1.1.2017
Dr. Day listed as "Scientist to Watch" by The Scientist magazine.
10.16.2016
CRISPR/Cas9 research in the Day Lab featured in UAB magazine.
10.15.2016
Congrats to Day Lab undergraduate student Jasmin Revanna on receiving the first place poster award in the natural sciences and mathematics division at the 2016 National Collegiate Honors Council.
9.12.2016
Postdoctoral fellow Kendra Bunner joins the lab. Kendra received her Ph.D. training in George Rebec's lab at Indiana University, where she used electrophysiological tools to characterize glutamate dysregulation in animal models of Huntington's Disease. Welcome Kendra!
9.9.2016
Congrats to Day Lab postdoctoral fellow Svitlana Bach on her funded F32 NRSA application from the National Institute of Mental Health.
7.1.2016
Congrats to Day Lab postdoctoral fellow Faraz Sultan for his funded F32 NRSA application from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
4.26.2016
Congrats to Day Lab undergraduate student Rhiana Simon on receiving the Undergraduate Speaker Award at the 2016 Civitan Simpson-Ramsey Neurodevelopment Symposium! Rhiana's talk focused on her work on non-coding RNAs that arise from genomic enhancers.
3.29.2016
Congrats to Day Lab graduate student Katherine Savell on receiving an honorable mention distinction on her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program proposal.
3.14.2016
Congrats to Day Lab undergraduate student Rhiana Simon on accepting offer to attend graduate program in Neuroscience at UNC-Chapel Hill!
3.10.2016
Congrats to Day Lab undergraduate student Rhiana Simon on winning a best poster award (and cash prize) at the UAB Spring Research Forum!
2.15.2016
Day Lab member Corey Duke starts podcast to share stories and history from the UAB School of Medicine.
1.27.2016
Day Lab undergraduate student Rhiana Simon is awarded the Civitan International Research Center Honors Collegiate Research Fellowship. The Scholarship was established to enable outstanding undergraduate researchers to attend the annual conference for Council for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) April 7th – 9th in Asheville, NC. Congratulations Rhiana!
1.7.2016
Dr. Day selected as Pittman Scholar by the UAB School of Medicine. The Pittman Scholar Award was created to honor the legacy of Dr. James A. Pittman, Jr., the longest-serving dean in UAB’s history.
12.2.2015
Dr. Day quoted in Nature perspective on epigenetic editing.
11.16.2015
Graduate rotation student Nancy Gallus re-joins the lab. Nancy is in the Neuroscience theme of GBS and received her B.S. in Molecular Medicine from the University of Tubingen. Nancy is working on using single molecule RNA FISH and optogenetic tools. Welcome Nancy!
9.25.2015
Day Lab postdoctoral fellow Svitlana Bach awarded a Civitan Emerging Scholar award from the Civitan International Organization. The $25,000 award will provide research and support costs for Svitlana's work. Congratulations Svitlana!
9.3.2015
Day Lab graduate student Katherine Savell awarded a Graduate Student Scholarship from HHMI/Janelia Research Campus to attend the upcoming conference "Behavioral Epigenetics - Conserved Mechanisms in Diverse Model Systems". Congrats Katherine!
8.24.2015
Graduate rotation student Kaela Kelly joins the lab. Kaela is in the Neuroscience theme of GBS and received her B.S. in Chemistry from Mary Baldwin College. Kaela is working on using optogenetic tools to understand circuit function in brain reward pathways. Welcome Kaela!
7.10.2015
Day Lab graduate student Katherine Savell awarded Carol Herd Greenisen Women in Science Memorial Fellowship. Congrats Katherine!
6.23.2015
Dr. Day receives an Early Career Travel Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
6.22.2015
Jasmin Revanna joins the lab. Jasmin will be a freshman at UAB in the fall of 2015.
6.15.2015
Andrew Brane joins the lab as a research technician. Andrew received his B.S. in Zoology from Auburn University. Welcome Andrew!
6.15.2015
Dr. Day receives an Avenir Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The 5-year, $2.2 million grant will support our research on epigenetic regulation in brain reward circuits.
6.8.2015
Medical student Corey Duke joins the lab. Corey received a fellowship through the Medical Student Summer Research Program at UAB to use whole-genome sequencing approaches to study epigenetic reprogramming in animal models of addiction. Welcome Corey!
6.8.2015
MSTP student Morgan Zipperly joins the lab. Morgan is entering her second year in the UAB Medical Scientist Training Program and is working on monitoring single unit activity in the brain with electrophysiology and optogenetics. Welcome Morgan!
6.8.2015
Undergraduate student Roxanne Robidoux joins the lab. Roxanne is a Chemistry major at UAB and is working on single-cell epigenetic profiling and epigenetic targeting using CRISPR/Cas systems. Welcome Roxanne!
6.1.2015
Postdoctoral fellow Svitlana Bach joins the lab. Svitlana received her Ph.D. from Wake Forest in 2015, where she studied epigenetic roles of the proteasome in long-term synaptic plasticity in Ashok Hegde's lab. Welcome Svitlana!
5.21.2015
Congrats to Day Lab graduate student Katherine Savell for winning a poster award at the Abcam-sponsored conference "Epigenetics: bridging development and disease" in Boston.
5.13.2015
Congrats to Day Lab graduate student Katherine Savell for winning a travel grant from the UAB Graduate School. This award will support Katherine's travel expenses for presentation at an upcoming conference.
5.11.2015
Undergraduate student Arthi Reddy joins the lab. Arthi is a rising junior in the Neuroscience Program at UAB and will be working on molecular cloning and engineering of CRISPR/Cas systems. Welcome Arthi!
5.4.2015
Undergraduate student Lauren Silverwood joins the lab. Lauren is a Chemistry major at UAB and is working on epigenetic targeting using CRISPR/Cas systems. Welcome Lauren!
4.11.2015
Congratulations to Day Lab undergraduate student Rhiana Simon, who was one of 4 UAB students to win poster presentation awards at the 14th Annual University of Alabama System Honors Research Conference. UAB students won awards in 4 of the 8 categories, and Rhiana's poster was selected as the top presentation in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics category.
3.27.2015
New editorial with Erik Roberson in Neurology discusses a recent paper describing the effects C9ORF72 gene DNA methylation in frontotemporal demetia.
3.12.2015
Congrats to UAB medical student Corey Duke, who received a summer research fellowship through the Medical Student Summer Research Program (MSSRP) to support his summer 2015 research in the Day Lab.
3.2.2015
Rotation student Jennifer Davis joins the lab. Jennifer is in the Genetics theme of the Graduate Biomedical Sciences program, and received her B.S. fromMichigan State University. Welcome Jennifer!
3.1.2015
Congrats to Day Lab undergraduate student Rhiana Simon on her admission into the UAB Summer Program in Neuroscience (SPIN). Rhiana will join other undergraduate students from across the country for a hands-on research experience during the summer of 2015. Admission to this competitive program includes a summer stipend and one-on-one preparation for graduate studies.
2.16.2015
Congrats to Day Lab postdoc Faraz Sultan for his presentation award at the annual UAB Postdoc Research Day. Faraz's work focuses on the role of the DNA methylation-related enzyme Gadd45b in brain reward systems.
1.15.2015
New UAB Mix story on our work.
11.20.2014
Rotation students Ben Henderson and Christian Stackhouse join the lab. Ben is in the Genetics theme of the Graduate Biomedical Sciences program, and received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Christian is in the Neuroscience theme of GBS and received his B.S. from North Carolina State University. Welcome Christian and Ben!
11.1.2014
Faraz Sultan joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Faraz is an MD/PhD graduate from UAB, and is interested in the role of DNA demethylation enzymes in reward-related learning, addiction, and plasticity.
11.1.2014
Our new paper in Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience describes new tools for site-directed and temporally precise epigenetic editing.
10.1.2014
Our new paper in Annual Reviews in Pharmacology and Toxicology discusses potential therapeutic implications of targeting DNA methylation for neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders.
8.21.2014
The Day Lab receives 3-year Pathway to Independence award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
10.1.2014
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8.18.2014
The Day Lab welcomes JJ O'Malley to the lab. JJ received his undergraduate degree and a master's degree from James Madison University.
8.15.2014
The Day Lab welcomes Katherine Savell to the lab. Katherine is a rotation graduate student in the Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics theme of GBS. Katherine received her undergraduate degree from the University of Montevallo.
8.12.2014
The Day Lab welcomes Mary Katherine Osborn to the lab. Mary Katherine is a rotation graduate student in the Behavioral Neuroscience program at UAB. Mary Katherine received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Alabama.
7.1.2014
The Day Lab is official. Many thanks to lab members Esther Song, Rhiana Simon, Will McLean, Rhiana Simon, Nancy Gallus, and Jordan Brown for getting everything off the ground.