News and Updates
Congratulations to our undergraduate volunteers Annika Ozols, Rami Khoshaba, and Aisha Aden for completing their Barrett Honors Thesis and ASU bachelor degrees! Congratulations to Aneri Metha for graduating from Basis High School!
Kimberly passed her comprehensive exam in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience in August, 2019!
As Chair of Women in Medicine and Science, Dr. Gallitano introduced the UACOM-Phx September focus on Women in Medicine: Trailblazers, Advocates and Leaders.
We had a lab lunch to say farewell to Ketan as he finished his post doc fellowship in the lab. We wish him the best of luck in his next position.
Aneri Mehta and Robert Yalam will be joining our research team this summer as high school interns.
Congrats to Meghna Godbole, who was our 2018-2019 BMS high school scholar, for accepting to attend Northeastern College this fall!
Congratulations Arhem! Arhem Barkatullah was an undergraduate volunteer in the lab from 2016 - 2018. She was just accepted to medical school and will attend Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth starting fall of 2019.
Dr. Gallitano was interviewed on News 12 to discuss recent article on the increase of depression in millennials.
Link to News Article:
Are Millennias the Most Depressed Generation?
Diana Elizalde is graduating from Medical School May 2019! What a tremedous accomplishment!
Congratulations to Kimberly Meyers for her Co-First Author paper that discusses EGR3 mediated activity dependent regulation of brain derived neurotrophic factor.
Congratulations to our BMS high school scholar, Amulya Bhaskara, for being accepted to present her summer project at the 2018 AZBio Awards!
Ketan published two articles this year, a hypothesis and theory article that discusses a biological pathway for schizophrenia susceptibility with EGR3 as a major component and is a co-first author with Kimberly Meyers in an article that discusses EGR3 mediated activity dependent regulation of brain derived neurotrophic factor.
Ketan was recently awarded a Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) for the Society of Neuroscience 2018 meeting in San Diego. This award will defray expenses for attending the meeting and his poster will be featured with other TDPA recipients in a separate session.
Ketan was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Development Grant through the University of Arizona, Office of postdoctoral affairs. He will use the funds received to do a pilot project investigating the role of EGR3 in Alzheimer's disease. Read more