Welcome to the E Lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin

How is Neurodegeneration switched on by Aging?

We currently use Caenorhabditis elegans as a model to investigate this main research question from a non-neuronal perspective, in both physiological and pathological conditions.

• Meera just won MCW Graduate School's first annual Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT®) 🥳🥳 - April 2024

• Swapnil has been awarded with the Post-Doctoral Researcher Seed Grant from the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment 🏆🎊 - January 2024

2023

• Jalyssa Gonzales, an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, just started her summer research in the E lab through MCW SPUR program - June

• Rana Mansour (MD/PhD program) joins us for rotation - May

• Meera received an award to attend the European Psychoneuroimmunology Autumn School on the topic of "The skin-brain axis and the breaking of barriers“, which will be held at the 🏰Castle Rauischholzhausen in Germany this September. Congrats 🎉 - May

• We are excited that Dr. Swapnil Waghmare, our new postdoc, has joined the lab! - January

2022

• Meera is now officially a PhD candidate ✨ Congrats on passing the qualifying exam 🎉 - December

• Welcome Lance Vick and Jesse Cullison to rotate in our lab! - November

• Rob Newland starts his rotation in our lab! - September

• Hilda Martinez Ramirez (NDP student) joins us for her 1st rotation! - August

• Ariel has been promoted to Research Technologist II 🥼 - July

• Congratulations to Bradey on receiving the offer from MD/PHD program at MCW 🔬🩺 - March

• The first publication from the E Lab is officially online 👉 Read here - March

• Meera Krishna joins the E Lab for her PhD dissertation research 🤩 - February

• Lezi receives the New Faculty Pilot Grant sponsored by Research Affairs Committee at MCW - January

• Yuqi Zhang (IDP student) joins us for her 4th rotation! - January

• Happy 2022! 

2021

• Excited to welcome Alanna Sullivan and Scholastica Go, both NDP students, to rotate in our lab! - November

• Cindy Nunez (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program, IDP student) and Kyle McLaughlin (NDP student) started their rotation in the E Lab! Welcome! - September

• Lezi receives the Imagine More Award from the Neuroscience Research Center - August

• Welcome Meera Krishna (Neuroscience Doctoral Program, NDP student) to rotate in our lab! - August

• Bradey Stuart joins the lab as a Research Technologist II! Welcome! - August

• The lab welcomes Bryan Hernandez as an undergraduate summer researcher (MCW SPUR program)! - June

2020

• Ariel Franitza joins the lab as a Research Technologist I! - November

• E Lab officially starts at the Medical College of Wisconsin - August

(Last updated 4/4/2024)