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May 19th, 2025
Kate receives the Outstanding Doctoral Mentoring award at CU Graduate School Convocation ceremony. Congratulations!
April 16th, 2025
The lab celebrates Amber for the upcoming arrival of the newest lab member!
March 2025
Kate gives a talk at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment.
In addition, she holds a round table and gave an informal talk on parenting a child with autism.
February 24th, 2025
Miguel Yague (Neuroscience) joins the lab for his third rotation, welcome!
January 2025
Kate attends the Winter Conference on Synaptic Mechanisms at UC Davis and presents at the Winter Conference on Brain Research at Palisades Tahoe, CA.
January 14th, 2025
Amber receives an F31 award to fund her thesis project , congratulations!
December 25th, 2024
Kate and Theresa's review on inhibitory synaptic plasticity is published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology. [PMID: 39721557]
December 14th, 2024
Fall graduation: Kate hoods Theresa at the ceremony at the Denver Convention Center.
December 11th, 2024
Kate gives a seminar at UC Davis.
December 9th, 2024
The lab celebrates 2024 with a candy factory tour and lunch!
December 2nd, 2024
We welcome a new post-doc to the lab, Katie Zent! Katie successfully completed her PhD in Mark Dell'Acqua's lab.
November 18th, 2024
Quinn Asbell (Neuroscience) joins the lab for her second rotation, welcome!
November 4-6th, 2024
Sarah and Kate attend the US-Japan Synaptic Plasticity meeting in Monterey, CA.
October 30, 2024
Happy Halloween from the Spice Girls 🎃
October 23, 2024
Theresa Welle delivers an excellent talk and successfully defends her thesis. Congratulations Dr. Welle!
September 19, 2024
Theresa's paper on how translation of the inhibitory scaffold gephyrin supports iLTP is published today. Congrats Theresa, Dipen and the whole team!
[PMID: 39294503]
September 12, 2024
Lab Outing!
August 26, 2024
Raquel Paz Zavala (Neuroscience) joins the lab for her first rotation, welcome!
July 11-19th, 2024
Kate, Sarah and Amber present at Synaptic Transmission GRC and GRC at Il Ciocco, Italy. Amber and Sarah did super jobs presenting their posters and Kate’s talk was very well received.
Kate also was part of the mentorship session (with Zayd Khaliq, NINDS) at the GRS, which was ably organize by CU Anschutz post-doc Selin Schamiloglu and Grad student, Dean Kareemo.
The synaptic plasticity super-group was well represented!
June 10th, 2024
Sarah receives an F31 award to fund her thesis project!
Congratulations!
May 16th, 2024
Lab Lunch
April 8th, 2024
The lab enjoyed a nice picnic while watching the partial solar eclipse!
March 2024
Brian Brady joins the lab for his third pharmacology rotation. Welcome Brian!
January 27th - February 1st, 2024
Kate presents at Winter Brain in Breckenridge, CO.
December 12th, 2023
The lab celebrates 2023 with a delicious lunch!
November 2023
Danae Mitchell (Neuroscience) and Shelby Fainelli (Pharmacology) join us for their 2nd rotation, welcome!
November 1, 2023
Theresa wins 3rd place at the 2nd annual Pharmacology Photo contest, congratulations!
November 11-15, 2023
Kate, Theresa, Sarah and Amber all attend SfN in Washington DC. Kate Chairs a symposium ‘The Nanoscale Organization of Synapses: Tuning Function and Plasticity’ and gives a talk. Theresa and Amber present posters that are extremely well received. Well done all!
October 31, 2023
Happy Halloween from the Smith Lab 🎃
October 20, 2023
Theresa wins Best Talk award (again!) at the Annual Neuroscience Program Retreat.
October 12, 2023
Kate, Theresa and Amber present lab projects at the Inaugural CU Anschutz NeuroTechnology Center Symposium.
September 29, 2023
Amber receives the Trainee Professional Development Award to attend the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting!
September 27, 2023
Josh's paper on the mechanisms that drive the loss of inhibitory synapses following global ischemia is published today. Congratulations to Josh and all of the wonderful collaborators!
[PMID: 37860758]
September 21, 2023
The lab gets out into nature for a beautiful fall hike.
August 15, 2023
Amber passes her comprehensive exam, congratulations Amber!
July 1, 2023
Kate is awarded tenure. Thanks to all current and past lab members for all their hard work and support!
May 22, 2023
Josh receives the 2022-2023 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Graduate School. Congratulations Josh!
May 3, 2023
The lab enjoys a break in the day with some delicious brunch.
January 5, 2023 - Lab Ski Day!
A-Basin
December 2, 2022 - Smith Lab Holiday Party
The lab celebrated 2022 with ice skating and food!
November 28, 2022
Ami Haas (Neuroscience) and Phinea Romero (Pharmacology) begin their second rotation with us.
November 18, 2022
Sara G. wins first place in the Pharmacology Photo Contest - neuron category.
October 28, 2022
Theresa wins best talk award at the Neuroscience Graduate Program Annual Retreat at Estes Park.
October 26, 2022
Josh Garcia gives an amazing seminar and successfully defends his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Garcia!
October 25, 2022
Congratulations to the Synaptic Plasticity Supergroup, led by Mark Dell'Acqua, for winning the Research Collaboration Team Award at the 2022 CU Anschutz Research Awards!
October 12, 2022
Sarah passes her comprehensive exam! Congratulations Sarah!
September 17, 2022
Lab day out to celebrate Amber's wedding at A-basin!
August 1, 2022
The lab is awarded a second NIH R01 grant to study local translation in the context of inhibitory synaptic plasticity.
July 22, 2022
First summer lab outing to Evergreen for a hike.
July 1, 2022
Kate is promoted to Associate Professor!
June 2022
Kate is awarded the Department of Pharmacology Faculty Excellence in Research Award.
June 18-24, 2022
Theresa and Josh attend the 2022 Synaptic Transmission Gordon Research Conference in Lucca, Italy.
June 13, 2022
Mayra Bueno Guerrero (Neuroscience) begins her summer rotation with us.
June 2022
Amber Truitt joins the lab for her PhD in the pharmacology program!
April 7, 2022
Sara's paper on using SIM and STORM to image inhibitory synapses is published today. Congratulations Sara and team super-resolution!
[frontiers]
April 4, 2022
Theresa receives an F31 award to fund her thesis project! Congratulations!
March 7, 2022
Amber Truitt joins the lab for her third pharmacology rotation. Welcome to the lab Amber!
December 21, 2021
Josh's paper showing synapse disassembly during excitotoxicity is published in Cell Reports.
Congratulations to Josh and thanks to all our collaborators for his paper!
[PMID: 34936876]
December 17, 2021
The lab celebrated the year with ice skating!
December 2021
Theresa presents at the CU Anschutz 36th Annual Student Research Forum and is awarded as a top poster by Department of Neurology !
October 2021
Josh's talk at the annual Pharmacology Student/Postdoc Research Day receives an award for best talk.
October 2021
Theresa is awarded best poster at the 2021 Neuroscience Program Retreat, way to go!
September 2021
Kate welcomes the newest lab member!
July 14, 2021
Dipen and Theresa's pandemic review on the intersection between local translation, organellar trafficking and synaptic plasticity is published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.
July 1, 2021
We say goodbye to Matt as he starts a new job as Instructor of Anatomy/Physiology at the College of Eastern Idaho.
June 7, 2021
John Manalastas, an undergraduate student from Metropolitan State University (Denver), joins the Smith lab as part of the Summer Research Training Program (SRTP) at CU Anschutz. His work focused on inhibitory synaptic protein expression during homeostatic plasticity.
June 2021
Sarah Wolfe joins the lab for her PhD in the neuroscience program!
May 19, 2021
Josh gives a seminar at the University of Utah (Department of Neurobiology) as part of their Rising Stars in Neuroscience Symposium.
May 2021
Sara is promoted to Senior PRA!
April 2021
Sara welcomes the newest member to the lab!
February 25, 2021
Faith Aguilar (Pharmacology) begins her Spring rotation with us. Welcome Faith!
January 11, 2021
Josh wins Best Student poster award at the 35th Annual Student Research Forum!
December 2020
Josh receives a D-SPAN (F99/K00) award and enters into Cohort 6 of the NINDS funded program. This award will fund the remainder of his thesis work as a graduate student and will aid in his transition into a postdoctoral research lab. Congratulations Josh! [Link]
December 17, 2020
Theresa gives a phenomenal talk at the CU Anschutz ‘3 minute Thesis’ competition and wins 1st place! Congratulations! Theresa will now go on to compete with the Denver campus in late January.
December 8, 2020
Josh receives student of the year award at the State of the Department and Awards Ceremony!
November 30, 2020
Sarah Wolfe (Neuroscience) begins her winter rotation with us. Welcome Sarah!
November 12, 2020
We say a sad farewell to post-doc Dipen, who is leaving us to be a Senior Researcher at Oxford Nano Imaging in the UK. We’ll miss you Dipen, and thanks for all your hard work and enthusiasm for science!
September 28, 2020
Theresa gives an excellent seminar and passes her comprehensive exam with flying colors. Congratulations Theresa!
August 2020
We welcome a new post-doc to the lab, Matt Taylor. Matt joins us after completing a successful PhD in Megan Williams’ lab. Welcome Matt!
June 2020
Dipen’s paper showing local translation of GABA-A receptors during iLTP is published in Cell Reports [PMID: 32579917].
May 2020
Lab gradual reopening!
March 2020
Lab shut down begins…….
February 24, 2020
Jose Vigil (Neuroscience) and Alex Huffman (Pharmacology) join the lab for their spring rotation.
February 2020
Lab Celebration
January 2020
Our CU Anschutz collaborators, Molly Huntsman and colleagues, publish a paper in eLife looking at feed-forward inhibition in the basal amygdala. [PMID: 31916940]
December 8, 2019
Lab Holiday Party
November 2019
The Smith Lab is awarded its first R01 grant to study the nanoscale architecture of inhibitory synapses in plasticity.
October 2019
Dipen, Kate and Theresa attend SfN in the lovely Chicago. Dipen’s poster presentation was very busy, and Kate and Mark Dell’Acqua attend the Brain Research Foundation cocktail party.
Dipen is awarded a CU Denver Postdoctoral Travel Award to attend SfN.
August 2019
Kate and Josh attend the International Society for Neurochemistry Biannual meeting in Montreal, Canada. Kate co-chaired a session on inhibitory synapses (and baby Joseph attended too).
July 2019
Theresa Welle (Neuroscience) joins the lab for her PhD work.
May 24, 2019
Kate is awarded a Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant.
March 19, 2019
First paper published from the Smith Lab identifying the nanoscale structure of the inhibitory synapse. Check it out
March 20, 2019
Kate is awarded an AHA Career Development Fellowship!
March 2019
Joseph becomes the newest (and youngest) member of the lab.
December 10, 2018
Lab Holiday Party!
November 26, 2018
Theresa Welle (Neuroscience) joins the lab for her winter rotation. Welcome Theresa.
November 8, 2018
Josh is awarded an AHA pre-doctoral Fellowship. Congratulations Josh!
August 12-17, 2018
Kate, Josh and other Synaptic Plasticity Group members present at the GRC on Synaptic transmission at Waterville Valley, NH.
August 1, 2018
Josh passes his comprehensive exam with flying colors. Congratulations Josh!
June 11, 2018
Brian Lloyd (MSTP) starts his first summer rotation in the Smith lab!
May 24, 2018
Kate gives a talk on super-resolution imaging at the annual Ion Channel Symposium at the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen, Denmark.
March 15, 2018
Dipen joins the lab as a post-doc!
February 26, 2018
Mason Kleinjan (BSP) and Katie Hahm (Neuroscience) join the Smith lab for their spring rotations. Welcome Mason and Katie.
November 20, 2017
Sean Hickey (Pharmacology) and Hannah Actor-Engel (Neuroscience) start their winter rotation. Welcome, Sean and Hannah.
November 2017
Sara welcomes the first lab mascot to the world, Eleanor!
November 2017
Kate publishes her remaining post-doc work from the Penzes and Hanley Labs in Journal of Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry and JBC, and is co-author on an exciting new Cell Reports paper from the Kennedy Lab.
August 15, 2017
Kate receives a Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD) Young Investigator Award!
June 2017
Josh joins the lab as a Pharmacology graduate student!
May 28, 2017
Real Life Science interviews Kate!
May 1, 2017
Sara joins the Smith lab as a PRA!
April 2017
The new N-SIM E Nikon microscope arrives!
March 2017
Josh Garcia rotates in the Smith Lab!
December 21, 2016
Kate is interviewed by Nature Jobs!
November 2016
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