Konopka Lab

Big news—we’ve moved to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA! Even bigger: Gena is now Chair of the Department of Neurobiology. Congrats, Dr. Konopka! 💙🧠 #UCLA #Neurobiology #NewBeginnings

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Finally, it is out. Many thanks to my two mentors Gena Konopka and Joe Takahashi @CircadianClocks, as well as all the lab members @KonopkaLab

Human-like expression of the CLOCK gene in mouse neocortex enhances cognitive flexibility and neural connectivity, suggesting an evolutionary gain of function @Brain_EvoDevo @KonopkaLab @CircadianClocks nature.com/articles/s4159…

We celebrated Haley graduating from the Neuroscience Ph.D. program at UT Southwestern. Huge congrats, Dr. Moore! 🎉🎓

8/ 🧪Combining snRNA-seq + smFISH + cross-species comparisons + cross region comparisons = powerful insights into mammalian striatum evolution. 🧵Thanks for reading!

7/ Takeaways: 🧠Our findings underscore the importance of including a diverse array of species and brain regions when uncovering novel cell types and examining cellular abundance variations which may lead to species-specific behaviors.

We are super excited to share our latest pre-print in collaboration with @Sonja_Vernes Lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… : Evolution of the cellular landscape in mammalian striatum 🧠🧬🧵

❄️☃️ Our spooky snowman is ready to haunt the holidays and bring some 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 cheer to the Lab Door Decorating Contest! A big thank you to everyone who helped bring this eerie creation to life – your creativity truly shines! 🎄👻 #SnowmanDecor @UTSWNeurosci

@AGArginine @NIH_LRP Congrats!!

Lovely news this morning! Thanks to @NIH_LRP and my amazing mentors for their support!

Congratulations to Dr. Ortiz @anabrains! @UTSWNeurosci @UTSWGradSchool