June 2024
We are really expanding this month! Welcome Carter O. (new tech), Sumayya J. & Vihaan P. (summer students) to the lab!
May 2024
Carla & Sarah both presented at OBI Research Day! Carla presented on the new BICAN project creating a developmental spinal cord atlas. Sarah presented her work completed during her OBI Sprouts Grant Award period.
April 2024
The lab attended the Neuroscience Retreat at Pegasus Park. Sarah MC’d the event, as well as presented a poster. We also went to the Gulf Coast Consortium Translational Pain Research Conference in Houston!
March 2024
Medical student, Yushra R., joins the lab!
January 2024
Welcome new graduate student, Carla RP., to the lab! Helen & Sarah attended the Mammalian Somatosensation Keystone Conference in Santa Fe.
August 2023
Having Gabe and David in the lab for the summer was a real treat. Their astute and insightful questions kept everyone on their toes!
July 2023
Welcome Deanna H. to the Lai lab!
April 2023
Sarah is killing it this month! Passed quals, represented the Pain Interest Group at the OBI Research Day, awarded the OBI Sprouts grant, and gave her first Neuroscience Grad Program Works-In-Progress (WIPs). Whew!
Aug 2022
The Lai lab moves to the new OBI building! Open floor plan. Here we come!
Aug 2022
Gabe (AMGEN scholar) delivers an exciting poster about the wonders of genetics and nociceptor development.
May 2022
First Neuroscience Retreat post-pandemic! The Butterfly Gardens were the perfect serene setting!
Jan/Feb 2022
So exciting to welcome researchers back to the lab!
Grace M. joins as a UTD Green Fellow.
Sarah J. joins the lab! Yay!
Summer 2021
A pandemic was not going to get in the way of Mark completing his Ph.D.! Congrats Mark!
Summer 2020
Obligatory pandemic Zoom meeting photo.
Summer 2019
Mark went to NAPS and got his F31 fellowship! Congrats!
Adelaide B. and Megan G. had a productive summer learning about motor neuron circuitry and nociceptor development.
We said goodbye to Razaq D. as he takes on his next adventure earning his MD/PhD!
Megan at the SURF poster session.
Apr 2019
And more poster fun at APS 2019!
Neuroscience Retreat 2019 at the Arboretum.
Photo credit: Colleen Noviello
Sept 2018
We welcome Razaq D. and Felipe E. to the lab!
Mark L. having fun at IASP 2018!
July/Aug 2018
Awesome work by Clayton T., Lorelai P., and Katherine C.! Another summer comes to an end.
June 2018
Welcome summer students! Clayton T. (SURF), Lorelai P. (STARS), and Katherine C. (returning for another summer of somatosensory overload)!
May 2018
Helen receives the Presidential Research Council Award!
March 2018
August 2017
Mark L. joins the lab!
June 2017
STAR student Katherine C. joins the lab for the summer!