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January 6th, 2023: Congratulations to Courtney on receiving a Graduate Student Travel Award to the 2023 Society of Toxicology Meeting!

January 3rd, 2023: Congratulations to Astra on starting her new job as an assistant professor at University of Washington!

November 7th, 2022: Congratulations to Ruhi on receiving an F32 Postdoctoral NRSA Award!

November 3rd, 2022: Congratulations to Bre on passing her oral qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy!

October 27th, 2022: Congratulations to Cindy on being accepted into the i2URP program!

October 17th, 2022: Congratulations to Ricardo on passing his oral qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy!

September 30th, 2022: Congratulations to Patricia on passing her oral qualifying exam and advancing to candidacy!

July 1st, 2022: Congratulations to Courtney on being selected for the ACT member spotlight and on receiving an ACT travel award! 

June 16th, 2022: Patricia and Bre's review article on sensory behaviors of Strongyloides species was published in Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology.

May 20th, 2022: Ivan will be starting grad school at UCSF this summer. Congratulations, Ivan, and best of luck at UCSF! 

May 18th, 2022: Congratulations to Cindy and Ava on their acceptance into the URC-Sciences Summer Research Program!

May 5th, 2022: Congratulations to Courtney on passing her oral qualifying exam!

April 23rd, 2022: Astra's paper on the neural basis of heat seeking in S. stercoralis was published in Current Biology.

April 6th, 2022: Congratulations to Aracely on her acceptance into the MARC program!

April 4th, 2022: Congratulations to Ivan on receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! And congratulations to Ricardo and Damia on receiving NSF Honorable Mention!

March 22nd, 2022: Congratulations to Ricardo on receiving a Ford Foundation Fellowship!

December 10th, 2021: Congratulations to Aracely on receiving a URFP Award!
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November 18th, 2021: Congratulations to Ava and Cindy on receiving CARE Fellowships!

October 7th, 2021: Michelle's paper on how to make transgenic and knockout Strongyloides was published in JoVE.

October 7th, 2021: Ivan's paper on parasitic nematode - bacteria interactions was published in BMC Biology.

June 15th, 2021: Congratulations to Ivan and Elisa on their graduation!

June 6th, 2021: Congratulations to Astra on receiving the 2021 Boyer/Parvin Postdoctoral Award!

June 6th, 2021: Congratulations to Ivan on receiving the Frederick A. Eiserling Award!

June 3rd, 2021: Congratulations to Navonil on receiving the 2021 Sydney Finegold Postdoctoral Award! 

May 27th, 2021: Congratulations to Ivan on receiving the Dean's Prize at the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Showcase!

April 29th, 2021: Astra's paper on the Wild Worm Codon Adapter was published in G3.

April 22nd, 2021: Congratulations to Elisa on her acceptance into Harvard’s PiN post-bac program!

April 6th, 2021:  Astra's paper on the Strongyloides RNA-seq Brower was published in G3.

November 16th, 2020: Congratulations to Ivan on receiving the first place poster award at LSMRCE and an oral presentation award at ABRCMS!

November 3rd, 2020: Congratulations to Astra on receiving a 2020 Arnold Scheibel Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Award!

July 10th, 2020: Spencer's paper on chemosensation in threadworms and hookworms was published in PNAS.

May 22nd, 2020: Elissa received a 2020 Faculty Mentor Award.

May, 2020: Congratulations to Ivan on his acceptance into the Scripps Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program!


March 2nd, 2020: Congratulations to Elisa and Ivan on their acceptance into the Rockefeller SURF Program!

February 20th, 2020: Congratulations to Elisa on her acceptance into the Stanford ADVANCE Undergraduate Institute!

January 15th, 2020: Congratulations to Astra on winning the M. John Pickett for MIMG Postdoctoral Scholars!

November 7th, 2019: Ivan was accepted into the i2URP program. Congratulations, Ivan!
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October 30th, 2019: Congratulations to Astra on receiving second place for best talk at the SCEP meeting!

October 11th, 2019: Navonil's review on carbon dioxide sensation in nematodes was published in Parasitology.

August 1st, 2019: We received a new R01 to study thermosensation in skin-penetrating nematodes.

June 19th, 2019: We received a new R01 to study chemosensation in skin-penetrating nematodes.

June 14th, 2019: Navonil received a Postdoctoral NRSA. Congratulations, Navonil!

June 14th, 2019: Congratulations to Leopoldo on his graduation!

April 12th, 2019: Elisa and Ivan were accepted into the MARC Program. Congratulations, Elisa and Ivan!

April 12th, 2019: Feli received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Feli! 

January 16th, 2019: Sophie and Kristen's paper on CO2 response valence during starvation was published in PNAS.

November 28th, 2018: Congratulations to Astra on receiving the award for best talk at the SCEP meeting!

October 29th, 2018: Elisa and Ivan were accepted into the CARE Fellows Program. Congratulations, Elisa and Ivan!

October 26th, 2018: Astra's review on host seeking in parasitic nematodes was published in IJP: Drugs and Drug Resistance.

October 15th, 2018: Astra's review on thermosensation in parasitic nematodes was published in Neuroscience Letters. 

September 7th, 2018: Spencer defended his thesis! Congratulations, Spencer!

July 3rd, 2018: Astra's paper on the thermosensory behaviors of skin-penetrating nematodes was published in Current Biology.

June 26th, 2018: Taylor received an HHMI Gilliam Predoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations, Taylor!
https://www.hhmi.org/news/45-gilliam-fellowships-support-students-and-advisers-committed-to-increasing-diversity-science

June 15th, 2018: Congratulations to Wendy on her graduation!

May 23rd, 2018: Wendy received the Dean's Prize at Research Poster Day. Congratulations, Wendy!

April 4th, 2018: Taylor received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations, Taylor!

December 14th, 2017: Manon defended her thesis! Congratulations, Manon!

November 30th, 2017: Feli's paper on the olfactory behaviors of H. polygyrus was published in PLoS Pathogens.

October 10th, 2017: Spencer's paper on CRISPR/Cas9 in Strongyloides was published in PLoS Pathogens.

September 11th, 2017: Manon's paper on CO2 response valence was published in Current Biology.

July 27th, 2017: Michelle received a lab safety award from EH&S! Congratulations, Michelle, and thank you for all of your hard work as our lab's safety officer!

June 20th, 2017: Sophie defended her thesis! Congratulations, Sophie!

June 15th, 2017: Congratulations to Emily, Feli, and James on their graduation!

May 24th, 2017: Feli received the Dean's Prize at Research Poster Day. Congratulations, Feli!
​April 6th, 2017: Astra received an A.P. Giannini postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations, Astra!
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-postdocs-sweep-giannini-fellowships

March 19th, 2017: James and Ryo's paper on the olfactory behaviors of the mushroom fly Drosophila falleni and its nematode parasite Howardula aoronymphium was published in Journal of Chemical Ecology.

December 16th, 2016: Wendy received a URFP award. Congratulations, Wendy!

September 23rd, 2016: Sophie's review on olfactory circuits and behaviors of nematodes was published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

September 22nd, 2016: Elissa was named a 2016 HHMI Faculty Scholar.
http://media.hhmi.org/FacultyScholars2016-gallery/?_ga=1.129529740.1471657321.1474569717

June 22nd, 2016: Taylor received a Cellular and Molecular Biology Training Grant. Congratulations, Taylor!

May 19th, 2016: Emily received an Irving and Jean Stone Research Award. Congratulations, Emily!

May 6th, 2016: Joon's paper on temperature-dependent olfactory plasticity in EPNs was published in BMC Biology.

February 29th, 2016: James was accepted into the UCLA Amgen Scholars Program. Congratulations, James!

February 8th, 2016: Astra received a Neural Microcircuits Training Grant. Congratulations, Astra!

September 24th, 2015: Spencer received the 2015 MIMG TA Award. Congratulations, Spencer!

August 10th, 2015: James and Emily were selected as Undergraduate Research Scholars. Congratulations, James and Emily!

July 1st, 2015: Sophie received a Predoctoral NRSA. Congratulations, Sophie!

July 1st, 2015: Spencer received a Microbial Pathogenesis Training Grant. Congratulations, Spencer!

June 10th, 2015: Mayra defended her thesis! Congratulations, Mayra!

June 4th, 2015: Elissa received a Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Disease Award.

May 28th, 2015: James received a Whitcome Fellowship. Congratulations, James!

May 26th, 2015: Elissa received the John H. Walsh Young Investigator Research prize. 

February 13th, 2015: Jenny and Mayra's paper on the immune response of Drosophila to nematode infection was published in Infection and Immunity.

January 22nd, 2015: Sophie received a Neural Microcircuits Training Grant. Congratulations, Sophie!

January 12th, 2015: Congratulations to Feli on becoming a CARE Scholar!

October 14th, 2014: Our research is profiled in the October issue of Natural History Magazine.
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/

October 6th, 2014: Elissa received an NIH Director's New Innovator Award.
http://commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator/fundedresearch

September 4th, 2014: Our research on host seeking in skin-penetrating worms is featured on the blog BugBitten:
http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2014/09/04/is-a-skin-penetrating-nematode-searching-for-you/


August 15th, 2014: Spencer received a Whitcome Predoctoral Training Grant. Congratulations, Spencer!

August 14th, 2014: Michelle, Spencer, Ryo, and Anastassia's paper on odor-driven host seeking in skin-penetrating nematodes was published in PLoS Pathogens.

June 13th, 2014: Congratulations to Anastassia, Arezoo, Jenny, and Joon on their graduation!
June 8th, 2014: Mayra's review paper on gas sensing in nematodes was published in Molecular Neurobiology.

May 9th, 2014: Jenny was selected to be featured in the UCLA YouTube video produced for Undergraduate Research Week! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teoEIcSGBzA

April 1st, 2014: Manon and Jenny received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Congratulations, Manon and Jenny!

February 14th, 2014: Spencer received an NSF EAPSI Fellowship. Congratulations, Spencer!

January 30th, 2014: Sophie received a Neural Microcircuits Training Grant. Congratulations, Sophie!

November 16th, 2013: Jenny received an ABRCMS Poster Award in Microbiology. Congratulations, Jenny!

July 15th, 2013: An article about our research is in the UCLA College Report.
http://www.college.ucla.edu/report/uclacollegereport_summer13.pdf 

June 5th, 2013: Mayra and Manon's paper on regulation of CO2 response in C. elegans by ambient O2 was published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

May 24th, 2013: Joon received an Outstanding Poster Award at the Neuroscience Undergraduate Poster Session. Congratulations, Joon!

May 23rd, 2013: Elissa was named one of the Top 20 Science and Technology Professors in California by OnlineSchoolsCalifornia.com.
http://onlineschoolscalifornia.com/top-college-professors-in-california/science-technology/

May 17th, 2013: Elissa received a McKnight Scholar Award.
http://www.neuroscience.mcknight.org/newsroom/neuroscience-news/2013-scholar-awards

May 14th, 2013: Jenny and Joon were awarded the Science Poster Day Dean's Prize, and Jenny was
also awarded the Charles Buchanan Award. Congratulations, Jenny and Joon!
March 3rd, 2013: Jenny received the Special Merit Award at the UC LEADS Symposium. Congratulations, Jenny!

January 14th, 2013:  Jenny was accepted into the HHMI EXROP program. Congratulations, Jenny!

October 26th, 2012:  Joon and Jenny were accepted into the Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Program.  Congratulations, Joon and Jenny!

October 2nd, 2012:  Elissa received a MacArthur Fellowship.
http://www.macfound.org/fellows/867/
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-life-scientist-elissa-hallem-239227.aspx
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ucla-worm-researcher-receives-genius-grant-20121002,0,159991.story

August 27th, 2012:  Keely's review paper was published in Trends in Parasitology.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=chaisson%20and%20hallem

August 20th, 2012:  Joon was accepted into URSP.  Congratulations, Joon!

July 31st, 2012:  Adler and Manon's paper on host seeking in insect-parasitic nematodes was published in PNAS.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22851767

April 13th, 2012:  Elissa received a Searle Scholars grant.
http://www.searlescholars.net/person/585
http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/life-scientist-is-honored-as-a-searle-scholar.aspx

May 5th, 2012:  Jenny was accepted into the UC LEADS and MARC programs.  Congratulations, Jenny!

October 3rd, 2011:  Manon and Michelle's paper on ets-5 was published in Genetics.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21954162

June 23rd, 2011:  Mayra received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.  Congratulations, Mayra!
http://today.uci.edu/news/2011/06/nr_scholarships2011_110623.html

June 20th, 2011:  Elissa received a Rita Allen Foundation grant.
http://www.ritaallenfoundation.org/raf-news/2011-scholars.htm
http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/life-sciences-prof-recognized-as-2011-rita-allen-foundation-scholar.aspx

February 18th, 2011:  Elissa received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-life-scientist-awarded-sloan-192396.aspx
http://www.mbi.ucla.edu/spotlight/elissa-hallem-receives-sloan-foundation-fellowship
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