August 2025

• Hollin Hamelynck leaves the lab. We'll miss you Hollin!

 

September 2025

• Nadean gives two research presentations at Les Treilles Fondation Symposium on Retinal Development and Stem Cells in Nice, France
• Ashkan Abbasi joins the lab as an undergraduate research volunteer for both Brown and Glaser labs. Welcome!

 

August 2025

• Hollin Hamelynck leaves the lab. We'll miss you Hollin!

 

September 2025

• Nadean gives two research presentations at Les Treilles Fondation Symposium on Retinal Development and Stem Cells in Nice, France
• Ashkan Abbasi joins the lab as an undergraduate research volunteer for both Brown and Glaser labs. Welcome!

 

 

February 2024

• Sarah Kiser is accepted in the UC Davis IGG PhD program. Congratulations Sarah!

 

April 2024

• Abigail Chan joins the lab as high school research volunteer. Welcome Abigail!

 

May 2024

• Nadean gives a poster presentation at the Visual Systems Development Gordon Conference in Italy

 

June 2024

• Hannah Cui graduates from Davis High School and embarks on her college education at Stanford University. Way to go Hannah!

 

July 2024

• Nadean gives in invited talk at the Notch Signaling Gordon Conference in Lewiston, Maine
• Sarah departs the lab to start her graduate career. We'll miss you!!

 

October 2024

• Nadean give an invited talk at the International Society for Eye Research Meeting in Buenos Aires

 

November 2024

• Dahlia Versteeg joins the lab as an undergraduate research volunteer. Welcome Dhalia!

 

 

November 2023

• He Yang, 1^st year IGG student rotates in the lab

 

September 2023

• Nadean gives an invited talk at Aniridia North America Symposium, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Former members Bernadett and Julissa copublish a paper in PLoS Genetics

 

July 2023

• Hollin Hamelynk joins the lab, welcome Hollin!

 

June 2023

• Nadean travels with Tom Glaser to Chuuk State Micronesia as part of a human genetics study

Click to enlarge	Goodbye lunch for Mina and Pradhan with the Glaser lab!!

• Mina Negahban graduates from UC Davis with B.S. in Biotechnology
• Nadean co-publishes a paper in Development with the La Torre and Simo labs

 

April 2023

• Hannah Cui begins volunteering in the lab
• Welcome Hannah!

 

February 2023

• Nadean gives an invited talk at the ISER meeting in Brisbane, Australia
• Daniela Santamaria Munoz, 1^st year BMCDB student rotates in the lab
• Julia Godinez, 1^st year BMCDB student rotates in the lab

 

 

 

October 2022

• Bernadett departs the lab
• Sarah Kiser joins as a Junior Specialist

 

August 2022

• Julissa departs to initiate her PhD studies in the BMCDB program here at UC Davis
• Nadean is awarded a new NIH R01 grant about optic nerve astrocyte development
• Nadean presents a poster at the GRC Meeting on Visual Systems Development (1st post pandemic in-person conference!)

 

June 2022

• Pradhan graduates from UC Davis with Honors in Genetics and Genomics

 

 

 

 

September 2021

• Felina Loya first-year IGG sudent rotates in the lab.
• Bernadett's work on the paper, "Simultaneous Requirements for Hes1 in Retinal Neurogenesis and Optic Cup–Stalk Boundary Maintenance" was featured on the YouTube.

 

June 2021

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The Brown and Glaser labs gather outside to celebrate Illiana, Joel and Erik Davis (Glaser lab Junior Specialist who departs for Medical School in Iowa) achieving their career goals and moving to new positions during a pandemic!!

 

June 2021

• Joel moves to Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee to start an Assistant Professor position and establish his own lab.

 

February 2021

• Illiana departs for a Master’s Program Clinical Laboratory Science.

 

January 2021

• Bernadett, Julissa and Nadean publish a paper about Pax2 in the journal Developmental Biology

 

 

 

 

December 2020

• Bernadett’s human embryology project is a tremendous success. Welcome Zoe!

 

August 2020

• Nadean and collaborator Anna La Torre are awarded a new NIH R01 grant about signaling pathway regulation of eye morphogenesis


• Julissa joins the lab full-time as a Junior Specialist


• Joel, Nadean and Tom Glaser publish a paper about Atoh7 in PNAS

 

July 2020

• Julissa presents a data poster at the virtual Society for Developmental Biology Conference

 

June 2020

• Nadean and Anna La Torre are awarded a new NIH R01 grant


• Julissa graduates from UC Davis! Congratulations Julissa!!


• Bernadett and former lab member Rob Hufnagel publish a book chapter about retinal development

 

January 2020

• Bernadett and former member Myung-Soon Moon publish a paper in J Neuroscience

 

 

November 2019

• Joel is awarded an NIH K99 grant. Congratulations Joel!

 

October 2019

• Nadean gave research talks at University of Indiana, Cincinnati Children’s, Wayne State School of Medicine and the Hodgekiss Brain Institute/University of Calgary

 

September 2019

• First year BMCDB student Cailin Kelly does a joint research rotation with Brown and La Torre labs

 

July 2019

• Illiana Cajias joins the lab. Welcome Illiana!

 

June 2019

• Julissa Suarez-Navarro is awarded a Choose Development! Research fellowship.

 

April 2019

• Bernadett and Joel each gave platform talks at ARVO Conference in Vancover, B.C.

 

January 2019

• Rebecca Snell, UC Davis undergraduate, joins the lab

 

February 2019

• Brown lab publishes 1 review paper and 2 new data papers

 

 

October 2018

• Pradhan Hariharan, UC Davis undergraduate, joins the lab

 

September 2018

• Nadean gave a talk at the International Society for Eye Research Conference in Belfast, Ireland


• Mina Azimi received her PhD in the BMCDB Program. Congratulations Mina!

 

July 2018

• Nadean presented a poster at the Notch Signaling GRC Meeting in Maine


• Brown lab has 2 more papers accepted for publication. Each one is a culmination of Angelica or Mina’s thesis studies!!

 

June 2018

• Brown lab has 3 papers accepted at different journals!!

 

May 2018

Bernadett, Joel and Nadean attend the Visual Systems Development GRS/GRC meetings in Italy. Bernadett and Joel presented posters, while Nadean gave a research talk.	Click to enlarge
Mina Azimi gave her BMCDB exit seminar.

 

April 2018

• Katherine Greene joins the Brown-Glaser lab as a research technician

 

January 2018

• Davis High School students Meghan Mungala and Juan Zarate Sanchez join the lab to complete biotechnology internships


• Julissa Suarez-Navarro, UC Davis undergraduate, joins the lab

 

January 2018

• Special issue of Developmental Dynamics on Development, Disease and Repair of the Nervous System, co-edited by Nadean is published.

 

 

December 2017

• Joel Miesfeld is awarded an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations Joel!


• Nadean and Joel copublish a paper with Tom Glaser.

 

November 2017

• Angelica Kowalchuk gives her exit seminar and receives her PhD in the IGG program. Way to go Angelica!

 

October 2017

• Jack Stensland, UC Davis undergraduate, joins the lab

 

September 2017

• NIH awards the Brown lab an Administrative Supplement to our NIH grant.

 

July 2017

• Nadege Lum starts USC Dental School. Congratulations Nadege!

 

April 2017

• Nadean and former lab members Amy Riesenberg, Tien Le and Kevin Conley copublish a paper.

 

March 2017

• Bernadett Bosze joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Bernadett!

 

 

October 2016

Lab Party!!

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August 2016

• Nadean served as the Chair of the Visual Systems Development Gordon Conference in Bristol, Vermont


• Angelica, Mina and Kelly present posters at the Visual Systems Development GRC Meeting

 

May 2016

• Nadean and former lab member Amy Riesenberg co-publish a paper and are selected to contribute a cover image.

 

April 2016

• NIH awards the Brown lab a competitive renewal R01 grant.

 

March 2016

• Joel joins the Center for Vision Sciences Training Grant. Congratulations Joel!

 

 

October 2015

• Joel attends a Gene Regulatory Networking Course at Woodshole Marine Biological Laboratory.

 

September 2015

• Joel Miesfeld joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Joel!

 

August 2015

• Angelica is awarded a second year of funding from the Center for Vision Sciences Training Grant. Hooray!

 

July 2015

Lab Party!!

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March 2015

• Angelica and Mina attend West Coast SDB Regional meeting and both present data posters.

 

February 2015

• Angelica and Mina each presented posters at the Bay Area Vision Research Day at UC Berkeley.

 

January 2015

• Angelica gave a research talk and Mina presented a poster at the Center for Vision Science Annual Symposium.

 

 

October 2014

• Angelica Kowalchuk passed her qualifying exam. Congratulations Angelica!


• Both Angelica and Mina presented posters at the Molecular & Cell Biology Retreat, Fallen Leaf Lake, CA

 

August 2014

• Angelica Kowalchuk joined the Center for Vision Sciences Training Grant. Congratulations Angelica!

 

July 2014

• Nadean presented a poster at the Society for Developmental Biology Meeting in Seattle, Washington


• Kate Maurer defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Kate!!

 

June 2014

• Mina Azimi passed her qualifying exam. Congratulations Mina!

 

May 2014

• Nadean served as the Vice Chair of the Visual Systems Development Gordon Conference in Il Ciocco, Italy


• Kate Maurer was a session chair and presented a poster at the Visual Systems Development Gordon Research Seminar; and she presented a poster at the Gordon Research Conference in Il Ciocco, Italy

 

 

November 2013

• The Brown and Glaser labs gathered to wish Myung-Soon well, as she departed for new opportunities in South Korea.

 

May 2013

• Nadean gave an invited platform talk entitled "Notch Signaling in the Mammalian Retina" at the annual ARVO meeting in Seattle, Washington.

 

April 2013

• Mina Azimi, BMCDB graduate student, was awarded a three-year NSF graduate research fellowship. CONGRATULATIONS MINA!


• Kate Maurer won best graduate student talk award at the annual Developmental Biology (CCHMC) retreat.