Category Archives: Lab News
Stevens Lab Welcomes Matt Baum and Jenelle Wallace
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Congrats Emily!
The Stevens lab congratulates Emily Lehrman on the successful completion of her PhD!
Congrats Yuwen and Christina!
The Stevens Lab congrats our grad students Yuwen and Christina on their very successful Preliminary Qualifying Exams!
Wouldn’t be a lab birthday without a celebration! Happy Birthday Emily!!
Fall Outing 2013!
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Neuron Highlights Stevens Lab Publication in 25th Anniversary Issue
Neuron has picked Dori Schafer and Beth Stevens’ Microglial pruning paper as their 2012 most influential paper for their 25th Anniversary issue and celebration!
Click here to read all about it!
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The Stevens Lab is thrilled to announce a publication by Allison Bialas and Beth Stevens, “TGF-β signaling regulates neuronal C1q expression and developmental synaptic refinement” has been published in Nature Neuroscience. Click the link to read!
Stevens Lab welcomes Christina, Neuroscience PhD Candidate
The lab is very pleased to welcome Christina Welsh, a graduate student in the Program in Neuroscience at Harvard. Christina graduated with a B.S. in Biology from MIT in 2012, and joins our lab excited to examine the roles played by neural-immune interactions during development.
Welcome and good luck Christina!
Stevens Lab Competes at the Kirby Center Picnic!
Our new technician Steve has some fun with pipetting!
Ryuta’s Goodbye Party
The Stevens Lab says goodbye to our fantastic postdoc Ryuta Koyama and his family. Best of luck with everything Ryuta, Mami, and little Taiga! We will miss you!!
Stevens Lab Welcomes Dan Wilton
The lab is thrilled to welcome our newest postdoctoral researcher, Dan Wilton . Dan joins us from the laboratory of Rhona Mirsky and Kristjan Jessen at UCL, and will be focussing on the role of complement and microglia in the pathogenesis of Huntington’s diseases.
Welcome and good luck Dan!
Stevens Lab welcomes Yuwen, Neuroscience PhD Candidate
The lab is very pleased to welcome Yuwen Wu, a graduate student in the Program in Neuroscience at Harvard. Yuwen graduated with an Honors B.A. in Biology from the University of Chicago in 2012 and joined the Stevens lab in 2013. She is interested in how the central nervous system interacts with the immune system to establish proper neuronal circuitry during development and plasticity.
Welcome and good luck Yuwen!
Pie Happy Hour
Stevens Lab Fall Outing
Farewell Nicola!
The Stevens lab says goodbye to Nicola Mattugini, who worked with us this summer through a Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation Summer Fellowship. Thank you and good luck in the future, Nicola!
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Beth Stevens Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
President Obama named 96 researchers, including Beth Stevens, PhD, as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Awardees are selected for their pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and their commitment to community service as demonstrated through scientific leadership, public education, or community outreach.
See White House press release here.
See NIH press release here.
Congratulations Beth!
Recent Awards
Beth Stevens, PhD, is the recipient of a Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) Pilot Award
Dori Schafer, PhD, was awarded the Nancy Lurie Marks Clinical and Research Fellowship in Autism, for her project titled, Investigating the Role of Microglia at Developing Synaptic Circuits in the Autistic Brain.