Category: Lab Business

Congrats David!

We’re thrilled to announce that our undergraduate student, David Kim, has been selected as the winner of the 2024-2025 COBRAS Feldman Fellowship!We’re incredibly proud of you, David!

Welcome summer students!

Chen lab welcomes all our summer students; David Kim, Lindsey Christinger, Drake Gorecki, Fapianey Alexandre and Hanna Jachna. We are very fortunate to have you all, and wishing you a productive summer!

Farewell Aditi

Saying goodbye to a friend and coworker like Aditi is always hard, and her departure saddens us. We’ll miss her influence and presence in the lab. Thank you, Aditi, for your contributions to the lab. Good luck with the new and exciting opportunities that await you! ♡

We’re moved!

Yes, it’s finally happened. NRB is our new lab-home. Before and after packing/cleaning:

Welcoming new lab member

Waleed Babar is a graduate student at the Neurosciences program and recently decided to join our lab. Welcome Waleed!

Juneteenth

Chen lab at the WashU hosted Juneteenth 2023 celebration.

Farewell party

Farewell Party for Peter and Samarth. All the best on your new adventures!

Departures

Congratulations to Alicia Repka who is graduating soon. She will be pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt. Good Luck Alicia! Another of our lab members, Samarth Aggarwal is also moving on. He was accepted into the PhD program in Imaging Science here at WashU. Good Luck to him as well!

Master Thesis Defense

Congratulations to Peter Chen on his Master’s defense! Peter’s thesis can be found here: Optical Perturbation of Protein Kinase A Activity via Photoactivatable Inhibitor PeptidesPhotoactivatable Inhibitor Peptides.

New Year’s celebration

Since many of our lab members traveled over the holidays we finally got to have our Holiday/New Year’s outing. We had a blast as always with lots of laughter and excellent food. Now we are looking forward to yet an exiting year! This year we will relocate to NRB, the new Neuroscience Research Building.

Congrats Peter and Samarth!

Congratulations to Peter Chen and Samarth Aggarwal for being offered the Dean’s Select Fellowship in the BME and Imaging Science PhD programs respectively.

Welcoming our 2 newest lab members

July-22

We are welcoming two new members to our lab. Sophie Ma joins us as an undergraduate researcher, and Samarth Aggarwal is our new research technician who recently relocated from San Diego, CA.

Chen Lab is growing

We are so excited to welcome two new lab members to our lab! Aditi Maduskar graduated with a PhD in Neuroscience from IISER, Pune. For her doctoral thesis she used zebrafish as a model system to investigate the signal transduction mechanisms that underlie neuropeptidergic regulatoin of feeding behaviour and associated modalities. In Chen lab, she […]

Happy Graduation Day!

Warmest congratulation to Chen Lab member Peter Chen on earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering! Peter will be pursuing his Master’s here at Wash U this fall.

Progress

In 2023 our lab will be relocating to the new Neuroscience Research Building, under construction right now. Here’s is a time lapse video of the progress.

Welcome Lizzie!

MSTP student Lizzie Tilden joins the lab. Her Ph.D thesis work will focus on investigating the potential role of PKA in sleep. Using simultaneous Electroencephalogram (EEG) and Fluorescent Lifetime Photometry (FLiP) in freely behaving mice, she can precisely track PKA activation and characterize or manipulate activity patterns throughout the sleep and wake cycle. We are […]

Open Positions in Chen Lab

We would like to grow bigger! Positions available: Staff Scientist, Senior Scientist, Postdoc, Research Tech, Programmer.