News
June 2023
Jake Deslauriers defends his dissertation.
May 2023
Dana Hodorovich defends her dissertation.
March 2023
The Marsden Lab takes part in Brain Night at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
January 2023
Dana Hodorovich’s first author paper, “Morphological and sensorimotor phenotypes in a zebrafish CHARGE syndrome model are domain-dependent” is published in Genes, Brain and Behavior.
September 2022
PhD student, Jake Deslauriers, and undergraduate researcher, Rachael Bieler, win poster awards at the Triangle SFN conference.
July 2022
Dana Hodorovich submits her paper, “Morphological and sensorimotor phenotypes in a zebrafish CHARGE syndrome model are domain-dependent” to be published, available on bioRxiv.
April 2022
PhD students, Kim Scofield and Melody Hancock, join the lab.
September 2021
David (Chris) Cole joins the lab as our new Lab Manager.
August 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Rubia Martin! Rubia successfully defended her thesis, completing her PhD in Toxicology at NC State. Rubia is the first PhD student from the lab to graduate. Well done, Rubia!
June 2021
Our paper in collaboration with Cody Smith’s lab at Notre Dame is accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience! Congrats to former lab members Sanjana and Sam on their first publication!
The final set of startle mutants, those with kinematic phenotypes, from the UPenn screen is published in PLoS Genetics! Congrats to Joy Meserve and the Granato lab!
May 2021
Kurt receives one of NC State’s inaugural Goodnight Early Career Innovator awards!
April 2021
Our collaboration with Adam Miller’s lab at the University of Oregon, examining how scaffolding proteins are critical for the assembly and function of electrical synapses, is published in eLife!
Patrick Lindsley is awarded a Summer Research Grant from NC State’s Office of Undergraduate Research – congrats Patrick!
February 2021
The lab is awarded its first R01 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke – congrats to the whole lab for their contributions to this major achievement! This project will examine how the threshold for the acoustic startle response is established, connecting the gene cyfip2 with actin regulation, synapse formation, and circuit function.
Jake wins the Golden Microscope award for giving the best talk at the 2021 Genetics Graduate Student Association Symposium! Congrats, Jake!
January 2021
Rubia’s paper on how a mixture of the cyanotoxins BMAA and Microcystin LR impacts behavior and protein expression in larval zebrafish is published in Toxicological Sciences! This is the Marsden Lab’s very first paper.
February 2019
Comparative Biomedical Sciences (CBS) PhD student Dana Hodorovich joins the lab.
June 2018
Toxicology PhD student Rubia Martin joins the lab! She will split her time between the Marsden Lab and Dr. Michael Bereman’s lab.
April 2018
Kurt’s paper from his time as a postdoc in Michael Granato’s lab is published in Cell Reports.
March 2018
Genetics PhD student Jake Deslauriers officially joins the lab.
December 2017
The Marsden Zebrafish Facility is installed. Many thanks to Sandy Elliot, the BRF manager at NCSU, and to Eric Stone and Dan Vinci at Aquarius – we’re so excited about this beautiful new system!
November, 2017
Derek Burton joins the lab as our Research Specialist and jack of all trades.
August 2017
The Marsden Lab is open for business! The business of unpacking boxes.