Lab News
2024
March 19, 2024: Congrats to Elelbin Ortiz, her paper entitled: "A single base pair substitution in zebrafish distinguishes between and acute startel behavior regulation" is now published in PLoS One.
January 1, 2024: Dr. Lauren Walker begins her faculty position at Dartmouth College.
2023
December 18, 2023: Congratulations Owen, his paper is now published in elife. Read the paper here.
October 4, 2023: Congrats to Phil, his paper "Mitochondria proteins encoded by the 22q11.2 neruodevelopmental locus regulate neural stem and progenitor cell proliferation" was published in Molecular Psychology.
October 3, 2023: Congratulations Dr. Mafe Navarro!
March 27, 2023: Congrats to Jessica Nelson and Hannah Shoenhard, their paper entitled "Integration of cooperative and opposing molecular programs drives learning-associated behavioral plasticity” is now published
February 14, 2023: Congrats to Hannah Shoenhard, her paper entitled : “Multivariate analysis of variegated expression in Neurons: A strategy for unbiased localization of gene function to candidate brain regions in larval zebrafish”. Is now published.
January 5, 2023: Congrats to Lauren Walker, her paper entitled: "Target-selective vertebrate motor axon regeneration depends on interaction with glial cells at a peripheral nerve plexus" is now published in PLos Biology.
2023
December 2022: Congratulations to Hannah, her paper: The calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) regulates zebrafish sensorimotor decision making via a genetically defined cluster of hindbrain neurons is now published in Cell Reports!
July 2022: Welcome to the lab Alexandria Hulegaard
September 12, 2022: Congrats Dr. Hannah Shoenhard!
May 22, 2022: Congrats to Lauren Walker, read her article Agrin/Lrp4 signal constrains MuSK-dependent neuromuscular synapse development in appendicular muscle.
February 4, 2022: Congrats to Patti Murphy, her paper Robo2 Drives Target-Selective Peripheral Nerve Regeneration in Response to Glia-Derived Signals.
2021
November 1, 2021: Congrats to Lauren Walker, her paper Agrin/Lrp4 signal constrains MuSK-dependent neuromuscular synapse development in appendicular muscle.
October 15, 2021: Jess is moving to Denver to start her own lab at the University of Colorado! Jess, we will miss you!
September 17, 2021: Congrats to Elelbin, her paper Central nervous system hypomyelination disrupts axonal conduction and behaviour in larval zebrafish is now published in Journal Neuroscience!
June 1, 2021: Congrats to Joy, her paper A forward genetic screen identifies Dolk as a regulator of startle magnitude through the potassium channel subunit Kv1.1 is now published in LOS Genetics!
July 22, 2021: Congrats Dr. Patti Murphy!
2020
December 8, 2020: Congrats to Lauren who was awarded a 3 year NIH KO1 award!
July 12, 2020: Congrats to Lauren, who won the 2020 Hilde Mangold Postdoctoral presentation award at SDB for her beautiful talk entitled “Identification of extrinsic cues promoting target-selective axon regeneration” .
June 2, 2020: Congrats to Jess, her paper Acute Regulation of Habituation Learning via Posttranslational Palmitoylation is now in press at Current Biology!
May 4, 2020: Congrats to Lauren, her Preview Vagus TopographicMap:Wandering through a gRAdient is now published in Developmental Cell!
April 29, 2020: Congrats to Phil, his review Zebrafish as a tool to study schizophrenia-associated copy number variants is now in press at Disease Models and Mechanisms!
2019
June 12, 2019: Congrats Beth and Melissa B., their paper Optic nerve regeneration in larval zebrafish exhibits spontaneous capacity for retinotopic but not tectum specific axon targeting has been accepted for publication at PLOSONE!
May 22, 2019: Congrats Juliane, her paper The ubiquitin ligase PHR promotes directional regrowth of spinal zebrafish axons is now published in Communications Biology!
April 22, 2019: Congrats Owen, his paper Distributed Plasticity Drives Visual Habituation Learning in Larval Zebrafish is now published in Current Biology!
February 19, 2019: Melissa’s paper Dynein promotes sustained axonal growth and Schwann cell remodeling early during peripheral nerve regeneration is now published in PLOS Genetics!
2018
October 10, 2018: Congrats Dr. Melissa Ducommun!!
October 1, 2018: Welcome to the lab Kristian Saied!
July 2, 2018: Congrats to Elelbin who was awarded a slot on the T32 CANAC training grant.
June 16, 2018: Congrats to Katherine and Lauren, their paper The synaptic receptor Lrp4 promotes peripheral nerve regeneration is now published in Nature Communications.
May 16, 2018: Congrats to Mafe who passed her Prelim!!!! Cake by Beth!!!
May 4, 2018: Congrats to Jess and Patti for winning the best talk (Jess) and poster prize (Patti) at the 2018 CDB retreat!
April 18, 2013: Congrats to Katherine, her paper is now in press at Nature Communication.
March 26, 2018: Congratulations to Roshan, his paper A Forward Genetic Screen in Zebrafish Identifies the G-Protein-Coupled Receptor CaSR as a Modulator of Sensorimotor Decision Making has been accepted to Current Biology.
March 21, 2018: Congratulations Kurt, his paper A Cyfip2-Dependent Excitatory Interneuron Pathway Establishes the Innate Startle Threshold has been accepted to Cell Reports.
January 3, 2018: Congratulations to Joy Meserve who was awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship!
2017
August 4, 2017: Welcome to the lab Maria Navarro!
July 17, 2017: Congratulations Dr. Katherine Gribble!
July 1, 2017: Congratulations to Patti Murphy and Lauren Walker who received their individual NIH (F31/F32) fellowships.
June 21. 2017: Congratulations to Elelbin who passed her Prelim!!!!
May 25, 2017: Congratulations to Juliane, her paper is now in press at PLoS ONE
April 3, 2017: Welcome to the lab Joy Meserve!
2016
November 29, 2016: Congratulations to Hannah Schoenhard who won 1st place in the Penn Science Pop Talk Biology category!
November 17, 2016: Congratulations to Juliane, her paper Myosin phosphatase Fine-tunes Zebrafish Motoneuron Position during Axonogenesis is now online at PLoS Genetics
October 23, 2016: Lab excursion to Beach Haven NJ
October 19, 2016: Welcome to the lab Lauren Walker!
September 1, 2016: Welcome to the lab Beth Harvey and Elelbin Ortiz!
June 1, 2016: Congratulations to Hannah, recipient of the 2016 NGG Hearst Foundation Fellowship.
May 10, 2016: Congratulations to Hannah, who passed her Prelim!!!! Mocktail Foosball PARTY!!!
May 9, 2016: Congratulations to Katherine, her paper Diverging roles for Lrp4 and Wnt signaling in neuromuscular synapse development during evolution is now in press at Genes & Development!!
April 20, 2016: Congratulations to Jesse Isaacman-Beck for being awarded this year's Nachmias-Thimann award given out by the department for the best 2015/16 publication by a graduate student! Read his publication The lh3 Glycosyltransferase Directs TargetSelective Peripheral Nerve Regeneration. Read about Transparent Zebrafish Reveal How Axons Regenerate on a Proper Path, Finds Penn Study on UPENN Press release & Video abstract! Read Redirecting regeneration highlighted in Nature Review Neuroscience. Jesse continues a tradition of former graduate students Lili Jing (2010) and Ali Rosenberg (2012) as recipients of the Nachmias-Thimann award. Jesse is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Clandinin Laboratory at Stanford.
January 27, 2016: Congratulations to Katherine who's poster won 1st place at the Keystone Meeting (Axons from Cell Biology to Pathology) in Santa Fe!
2015
October 21, 2015: Congratulations to Kurt, his paper In Vivo Ca2+ Imaging Reveals that Decreased Dendritic Excitability Drives Startle Habituation is now in press at Cell Reports!!
September 29, 2015: Congratulations to Jesse, his paper The lh3 Glycosyltransferase Directs Target-Selective Peripheral Nerve Regeneration is now in press at Neuron!! Read Transparent Zebrafish Reveal How Axons Regenerate on a Proper Path, Finds Penn Study in UPENN Press release & Video abstract! See Redirecting regeneration highlighted in Nature Review Neuroscience.
September 17, 2015: Congratulation Dr. Isaacman-Beck!!
August 1, 2015: Welcome to the lab Hannah Shoenhard!
July 1, 2015: Roshan Jain is starting his new position as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Haverford College! Congratulations Roshan!!!!
June 16, 2015: Congratulations to Patti Murphy who was appointed to the DB training grant!
April 13, 2015: Patti Murphy and Hannah Shoenhard in the News! Read about their visit to an elementary school to teach first-graders about Brain Science!
March 31, 2015: Congratulations to Jess Nelson who was awarded an NRSA postdoctoral fellowship award!
March 10, 2015: The Granato lab is going bowling!! Stay tuned for record breaking scores!
February 20, 2015: Congratulations to Katherine, who was appointed to the PMI Muscle Biology training grant!
February 12, 2015: Congratulations to Marc, Roshan, and Kurt, their paper A Genome-wide Screen Identifies PAPP-AAMediated IGFR Signaling as a Novel Regulator of Habituation Learning is now in press at Neuron!! Read Genomewide Screen of Learning in Zebrafish Identifies Enzyme Important in Neural Circuit in the UPENN Press Release!
January 15, 2015: Congratulations to Roshan, who just accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Haverford College starting July 1, 2015!
2014
October 29, 2014: Congratulations to Ali and Jesse on their J. Neuroscience paper Schwann Cells and Deleted in Colorectal Carcinoma Direct Regenerating Motor Axons Towards Their Original Path!
September 8, 2014: Welcome to the lab Jessica Nelson!
August 27, 2014: Congratulations to Marc on his Cell Report paper Modulation of cAMP and Ras Signaling Pathways Improves Distinct Behavioral Deficits in a Zebrafish Model of Neurofibromatosis Type 1!
May 16, 2014: Hannah Bell is off to medical/graduate school in Rochester!!! Good luck Hannah, we will miss you!!!!!!
April 1, 2014: Welcome to the lab Melissa B.!
March 21, 2014: Ali defends her thesis-Congratulations Dr. Rosenberg!!!
January 16, 2014: Congratulations to Roshan and Hannah! Their paper Mirror Movement-Like Defects in Startle Behavior of Zebrafish dcc Mutants Are Caused by Aberrant Midline Guidance of Identified Descending Hindbrain Neurons is now in press at J. Neuroscience!
January 1, 2014: Marc starts his faculty position at the University of Wisconsin, Madison- Good Luck !
2013
November 15, 2013: The Granato lab visits the Triumph Brewery!
June 14, 2013: The Granato/Mullins labs hold a baby shower for James, Marc & Yvette! Congrats to the parents to be!!!
May 21, 2013: Congratulations to Melissa who passed her Prelim!!!! PARTY!!!
May 15, 2013: After almost two years Camille is leaving.....! We wish her good luck and are looking forward to see her around as she is entering the DSRB graduate program here at PENN!!!!!
May 10, 2013: Almost to the day, after 4 years of very hard work, the Granato lab finished the learning genetic screen! Hooray!!
May 3, 2013: Granato lab squash extravaganza to celebrate Ali's 2012 paper.
January 30, 2013: For the latest news, you can now follow the Granato Lab on Twitter!
2012
December 14, 2012: Congratulations to Santanu & Jesse!! Their paper A Novel Role for Lh3 Dependent ECM Modifications during Neural Crest Cell Migration in Zebrafish is now in press at PLoS One!!
December 10, 2012: Congratulations to Rajiv!! His paper Plexin A3 and Turnout Regulate Motor Axonal Branch Morphogenesis in Zebrafish is now in press at PLoS One!
November 29, 2012: Michael Gyda's (former student), Marc, and Kristin Lorent's space cadet paper The Tumor Suppressor Gene Retinoblastoma-1 Is Required for Retinotectal Development and Visual Function in Zebrafish is now published in PLoS Genetics and has been viewed 701 times from Nov 29 through Dec 14th!!!
November 19th, 2012: Rajiv defends his thesis - Congratulations Dr. Sainath!!!
November 12, 2012: Congratulations Juliane who received her DFG postdoctoral fellowship!!
July 18th, 2012: The first Annual Granato lab bicycle trip takes place......why did we pick the hottest day...?
May 25, 2012: Congratulations Ali for receiving this year's Nachmias-Thimann award given out by the department for the best 2011/12 publication by a graduate student! Ali will receive the award on Monday, June 4, at the beginning of this year's Pepe lecture, at 12 noon, BRB auditorium.
May 22, 2012: Katherine passed her qualifying exam (YES!!)!
March 19, 2012: Welcome to the lab Melissa!
January 25, 2012: Congrats to Ali & Marc to their J. Neuroscience paper In Vivo Nerve–Macrophage Interactions Following Peripheral Nerve Injury!
January 1, 2012: What a way to start the New Year: Congrats to Erin & Dave to their baby daughter Caelyn Abigail!
2011
December 22, 2011: Congrats to Laura, Katherine, and Camille for their paper that is now in press at Development!
October 31, 2011: Yes, it's Halloween in the Granato lab (and the Mullins lab)!
September 28, 2011: Congrats to Roshan and Marc to their paper Molecular-Genetic Mapping of Zebrafish Mutants with Variable Phenotypic Penetrance, which is now accepted at PLoS.
August 30, 2011: Congrats to Marc & Roshan to their PNAS paper Chemical modulation of memory formation in larval zebrafish.
August 1, 2011: Welcome to the lab Hannah!
July 12, 2011: Congratulations to Kurt, whose NRSA scored 8%!!
July 12, 2011: Congratulations to Santanu, whose paper A novel role for MuSK and non-canonical Wnt signaling during segmental neural crest cell migration has been accepted in Development.
July 8, 2011: Congratulations Laura - Dr. Gordon!!!
July 6, 2011: Welcome to the lab Juliane!
June 28, 2011: The Granato lab returns from their first camping trip!
May 23, 2011: Welcome to the lab Camille!
May 16, 2011: Santanu's neural crest cell paper is accepted for publication in Development, congratulations!
May 8, 2011: Congratulations to Jesse, who received his NRSA predoctoral fellowship!!
February, 2011: Marc's review Behavioral genetic in larval zebrafish-learning from the young has been accepted to Developmental Neuroscience. Congratulations, Marc.
November 18, 2011: Congratulations to Kurt, who was selected for a position on the DevBio training grant!
2010
September 13, 2010: Welcome to the lab Kurt!
August 27, 2010: Congratulations to Ali, who received her NRSA predoctoral fellowship!!
July 29, 2010: Congratulations to Roshan, who received his NRSA fellowship!!
June 11, 2010: Laura Liss is leaving us to attend Medical School in the Fall. Good luck with everything Laura, we will miss you!!!
May 24th, 2010: Welcome to the lab, Lauren Schmidt!
May 12, 2010: Lili Jing visits to accept the Nachmias-Thimann award given out by the CDB department for the best 2009 publication Wnt Signals Organize Synaptic Prepattern and Axon Guidance through the Zebrafish unplugged/MuSK Receptor by a graduate student! Congrats, Lili!!
May 11, 2010: Jesse passed his Prelim exam (yes)!!
January 6, 2010: Harry's phototaxis paper has been accepted for publication in Current Biology, congratulations!
2009
August 27, 2009: Welcome to the lab Jesse!
July 31, 2009: Bye-Bye Lili, all the best, and stay in contact with us!!
July 13th, 2009: Welcome to the lab, Laura Liss!
May 22, 2009: Ali passed her Prelim exam-YES !!
April 24, 2009: Lili graduates, Congratulations Dr Jing!!!!!
April 8, 2009: Harry's Robo3 paper has been accepted for publication, congratulations!
March 12, 2009: Lili's & Laura's & Julie's paper now online at Neuron, Wnt Signals Organize Synaptic Prepattern and Axon Guidance through the Zebrafish unplugged/MuSK Receptor.
March 11, 2009: Laura's NRSA grant receives 6% score, congratulations!