March 2025
- Oliver L’Esperance successfully defended his Ph.D.
January 2025
- Jausalin Bertrand joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
August 2024
- Our work characterizing cFos expression and experience-dependent modulation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease is published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
- Asma Albeladi joins the lab as a graduate student.
March 2024
- The lab received the General Research Fund award from the University of Kansas.
January 2024
- Connor Maher joins the lab as a PharmD research student.
December 2023
- Our work on how repeated passive visual experience influences spontaneous and novelty-evoked neural activity was published in Scientific Reports.
- Our work showing impaired experience-dependent inhibitory synapse pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease was published in The Journal of Neuroscience.
July 2023
- Suraj Niraula successfully defended his Ph.D.
June 2023
- The lab received an RF1 award from NIH to study the role of Glyoxalase1 in synaptic plasticity in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease in collaboration with Columbia University.
May 2023
- Preprint posted on bioRxiv on how amyloid pathology disrupts experience-dependent inhibitory synaptic plasticity in vivo (Read here)
March 2023
- Preprint posted on bioRxiv on how familiarity alters spontaneous activity and enhances novelty detection (Read here)
January 2023
- Our work on how neuronal hyperactivity disrupts memory is published in Cell Reports (Read here).
- Our preprint on the relationship between functional connectivity, hyperactivity, and synapse loss posted on bioRxiv (Read here).
September 2021
- Will Hauser joins the lab as a research aide
August 2021
- Nick Pritchett joins the lab as a graduate student.
July 2021
- Lab receives Alzheimer’s disease center pilot grant to study mitochondrial impairments in vivo in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.
December 2020
- Julia Doderer joins the lab as a graduate student.
- Our review on synaptic loss in Alzheimer’s disease is now published in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (Read here)
September 2020
- Julia Doderer begins her lab rotation
August 2020
- Lab receives NIH funding to set up three-photon imaging
July 2020
- Jasmine Deng joins the lab as a research aide
November 2019
- Griffin Keeter joins the lab as an undergraduate research student
October 2019
- Suraj Niraula joins the lab as a graduate student for his Ph.D. degree
September 2019
- Jai receives New Faculty General Research Fund
- Katelyn Shepard joins the lab for her PharmD research elective
- A postdoctoral position is open. Apply here
August 2019
- Austin Holt joins the lab as a graduate student for his master’s degree
- Paper identifying CPG15 as a molecular correlate of experience published in Cell Reports (see the news here)
- Suraj Niruala begins his lab rotation
July 2019
Lab receives NIH R01 grant to study the mechanisms of synaptic and memory impairments in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease
June 2019
- Shreya Indulkar successfully defended her thesis and graduated
- Ethan Hunt joins the lab as an undergraduate research student
December 2018
Oliver L’esperance joins the lab as a graduate student for his Ph.D.
August 2018
Tristan Meier joins the lab as an undergraduate research student
June 2018
Kirsten King joins the lab as an undergraduate research student
March 2018
Allison Campbell joins the lab as an undergraduate research student
September 2017
Amen Hailemariam joins the lab as an undergraduate research student
August 2017
- Shreya Indulkar joins the lab as a graduate student for her Masters degree
- Jai lab opens at the University of Kansas