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December 10, 2019: Alex speaks at Cold Spring Harbor Development and 3D Modeling of the Human Brain
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December 3, 2019: Lab published review, Reverse Engineering Human Brain Evolution Using Organoid Models in Brain Research
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November 12, 2019: Alex speaks at USC Broad Center Stem Cell Seminar Series
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October 1, 2019: Lab receives NIH New Innovator Award to study genetic control of human brain evolution.
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August, 19, 2019: Congratulations to Mo for his independent article on the role of science in diplomacy and his outreach through Clubes de Ciencia Bolivia
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July 28, 2019: Congratulations to Tyler on running the SF Marathon
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May - July 2019: Congratulations to Tyler, Matthew, and Beatriz on passing qualifying exams
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May 28, 2019: Bryan and Alex preview a comparative study of human and chimpanzee cardiomyocytes
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May 13, 2019: Ian Fiddes and Alex collaborate with Sikela lab to describe paired human-specific duplication and co-regulation of NBPF and NOTCH2NL genes
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April 13, 2019: Alex presents in the Duke Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Colloquium series
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February 11 - 12, 2019: Alex speaks at NYU Neuroscience Institute and participates in Rachel Bandler's successful thesis defense
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February 7, 2019: Pollen lab and Kriegstein lab publish cover article describing the potential to compare human and ape brain development using stem cell derived organoid models covered here
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December 3, 2018: Mo and Alex discuss transplantation studies of human neurons into mouse models
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December 1, 2018: Sainath joins the lab as a bioinformatician
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November 1, 2018: We join Haussler, Salama, Teodorescu, and Nowakowski labs on Schmidt Futures Foundation project to study development and evolution of human neural circuits
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September 26, 2018: Lab receives funding for collaborative project through the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
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September 24, 2018: Alex presents at Company of Biologists meeting: From Stem Cells to Human Development
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September 18, 2018: Lab contributes to Eichler lab study on transcriptional fates of paralogs following human-specific segmental duplications
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July 7, 2018: Tyler, Matthew, and Beatriz join as the first cohort of graduate students in the lab
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July 6, 2018: We begin project with Ahituv, Pollard, and Nowakowski labs to link disease risk alleles to cellular and developmental substrates through the PsychEncode program
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July 5, 2018: Mo and Alex preview a study on specification of deep layer cortical neurons
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June 7, 2018: Olivia contributes to Eichler lab cover article on de novo assembly of ape genomes and discovery of lineage-specific structural genomic variation
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May 31, 2018: Collaborators in the Salama, Haussler, and Jacobs labs reconstruct genomic events and functional consequences of human-specific NOTCH2NL duplication, side-by-side with Vanderhaegan lab, covered here
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May 22, 2018: Lab receives funding from Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research at UCSF for project spearheaded by Mo.
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March 1, 2018: Bryan joins the lab as a postdoc
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December 8, 2017: Publish paper with Tom Nowakowski, Aparna Bharduri, Beatriz, Mo, and the Kriegstein lab, describing the appearance of area-specific excitatory neurons prior to sensory experience, and how trajectories of neuronal differentiation vary over space and time, covered here.
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November 9, 2017: Our mission to study the genetic origin of human brain specializations is profiled here along with the efforts of colleagues in the field.
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October 19, 2017: Alex speaks in session at ASHG on Novel Insights into Human Brain Evolution from Advanced Genomic organized by Simon Fisher
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September 1, 2017: We join Nowakowski, Kriegstein and Huang labs on a collaborative BRAIN Initiative Cell Census project focused on charting developmental trajectories
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June 1, 2017: Lab officially moves into new space in the Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building
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May 1, 2017: Mo becomes the first postdoc to join the lab.
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March 1, 2017: Pollen lab officially opens
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December 1, 2016: Olivia becomes first member to join the lab
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November 11, 2016: Alex teaches in Society for Neuroscience short course, "Using Single-Cell Genomics to Analyze Neurons, Glia, and Circuits" organized by Steve McCarroll
