Khaliq Lab
October 2023
Dana Cobb-Lewis' NALCN pacemaking paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Excited to see her beautiful work out!
Near government shutdown, averted at the last minute!!!! I was thrilled to be able to attend the ASAP Meeting in London. Lots of exciting research on Parkinson's Disease. Looking forward to the ASAP Rome meeting!
August 2023
Lots of great news this month. Our collaborative UO1 grant with the Allen Institute was funded!!!!!!!! Super happy to be on the hunt for new basal ganglia cell types with the Allen. Couldn't be happier to work with Tim Jarsky, Staci Sorensen and Uygar Sumbul on this!!
Paul Kramer is off to a tenure track assistant professor position at U Michigan Ann Arbor. So proud of Paul and his accomplishments!!! Looking forward to the brilliant science coming out of his independent lab.
July 2023
Faye Clever is off to graduate school at UC Berkeley!!! Best of luck Faye, you'll be missed.
January 2023
Big congratulations to Dana Cobb-Lewis (NIH George Washington GPP graduate student) on her successful thesis defense! She gave a beautiful talk, great job!
April 2022
Zayd is off to the Annual ASAP in person meeting. Super excited to hear about recent work in Parkinson's research.
March 2022
GRC Basal Ganglia was a great success! Big thanks to Margaret and Rui for organizing. Looking forward to 2024 GRC Basal Ganglia where Ilana and I will be co-chairs!
February 2022
Welcoming our new post \baccalaureate fellow Faye Clever to the lab. Looking forward the fun science that we will explore!
December 2021
We are excited to welcome new postdoc Jessica Perkins in the lab who is an expert making whole-cell patch clamp recordings of dopamine neurons in vivo! Boss! Thrilled that she'll be working with us.
October 2021
Fantastic news! Khaliq lab awarded generous funding from ASAP to work in collaboration with Team Edwards on the role of neural activity in Parkinson's Disease. Thrilled to be working with this team and excited for this new direction in the lab!
May 2021
Congrats to Lorenzo Sansalone for being awarded a fellowship from the Center of Compulsive Behaviors. Well done Lorenzo!
December 2020
Last days in the lab for Rebekah Evans will be starting her new independent lab in the Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown. Sad to see her go but excited for her future and the great science that will come out of her lab! Cheers Rebekah!
September 2020
Welcoming three new members of the lab. Lorenzo Sansalone, Sam Brill-Weil, and D'Angela Pritchett-Rowe. Great to have you onboard!
February 2020
Great news! Zayd awarded tenure and is officially a Senior Investigator at NINDS!
August 2019
Congrats to Dana for passing her qualifying exam!!!! She's an official PhD candidate, great job!
July 2019
Rebekah is off to give a talk at the Organization for Computational Neurosciences Meeting in Barcelona, Spain.
Last days for Emily in the lab. She's off to grad school at UCSF. We are sorry to see her go, but so happy for her success. Best wishes Emily!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 2019
The lab welcomes our newest postbaccalaurate fellow, Alex Sukharev.
Hosting three (3) students this summer: Alice Turnham, Summer Montileaux, and Kevin Webster. Welcome to the lab!
May 2019
Huge congratulations to Rebekah on getting her Brain Initiative K99 award!!! Fantastic news!!!
Zayd is off to Germany for a seminar at Goethe University Frankfurt. Great group there headed by Jochen Roeper! It'll be solid dopamine talk from sun up to sun down. Nothing more fun!
Congratulations to Paul on his renewal of the a Center on Compulsive Behaviors (CCB) Fellowship. Great program and a fun group of people!