News
09/2025 - Julia wins the award for best student talk at the Biological Sciences program retreat!
09/2025 - Julia is awarded an NIH F31 grant for her work in Danionella. Congratulations!!
09/2025 - Ruby joins the lab!
08/2025 - Jimjohn departs for grad school at UW - congratulations!!
08/2025 - Matt W joins as a joint PhD student with the Allen Discovery Center for the Neurobiology of Changing Environments,
07/2025 - Rose joins as a joint postdoctoral fellow with the Allen Discovery Center for the Neurobiology of Changing Environments,
06/2025 - Matt is named a McKnight Scholar (thanks UCSD)
05/2025 - Wataru Joins the lab, and is awarded a JSPS Fellowship!
01/2025 - Katie publishes a perspective on a recent study in Current Biology
10/2024 - Geoff joins the lab!
09/2024 - The lab begins our work with the newly established Allen Discovery Center for the Neurobiology of Changing Environments, a collaboration with our colleagues at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. UCSD news story here
09/2024 - Jo-Hsien wins the award for best student talk at the Biological Sciences program retreat!
09/2024 - Evelyn joins the lab!
07/2024 - David departs for Israel, to continue collaborative work at Bar-Ilan University
07/2024 - Our paper on the neurodevelopment of collective behavior in schooling Danionella is published in Current Biology - congratulations David, Lisanne, Jo-Hsien, Julia, Princess, and Jimjohn!! UCSD news story here
06/2024 - Jo-Hsien and Julia publish their review on the neurobiology of collective behavior, in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
05/2024 - Katie is awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation! Congrats Katie!!! UCSD News story
04/2024 - Lisanne departs for Paris, to continue collaborative work in Filippo del Bene’s lab at Sorbonne University
10/2023 - Matt receives the NIH Director's New Innovator Award (thanks UCSD!)
08/2023 - Princess departs for grad school at UW - congratulations!!
07/2023 - Jimjohn joins the lab!
07/2023 - Julia heads off to Lisbon, to the Cajal course on Machine Learning for Neuroscience!
04/2023 - Katie joins the lab!
02/2023 - Lisanne and David publish their perspective on zebrafish brain maps
09/2022 - Jen re-joins the lab as a PhD student in Biology!!
06/2022 - Matt is named a Pew Biomedical Scholar to study the neurobiology of group behavior (thanks UCSD!)
06/2022 - Julia joins the lab!
05/2022 - Jo-Hsien and Grace head off to Woods Hole, to the Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory! Fun!
04/2022 - Grace and Jennifer are selected to be NSF Graduate Research Fellows! Congratulations to you both!
03/2022 - Lisanne is selected to be a Postdoctoral Scholar of the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind! Congrats Lisanne!!!
03/2022 - David is selected to be a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Human Frontier Science Program! Congrats David!!!
02/2022 - Matt receives a Sloan Fellowship to study collective behavior (thanks UCSD!)
02/2022 - David joins the lab!
10/2021 - Matt receives a Packard Fellowship to study collective decision making (thanks UCSD!)
07/2021 - Jo-Hsien joins the lab!
06/2021 - Matt and Mikio Aoi receive a KIBM Innovative Research Grant Award to study neuromodulator flow
06/2021 - Matt receives a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship to study internal state persistence
06/2021 - Matt receives a Searle Scholar Award to study collective behavior
06/2021 - Grace joins the lab!
04/2021 - Lisanne joins the lab!
11/2020 - Lab running smoothly!
08/2020 - Jennifer and Princess join the lab!
07/2020 - Lab opens (with masks)
