Steve Buccellato’s live sketch of Stephanie during her TEDxUCLA talk.

Qianqian gives her poster at SfN (2012)

Steve, Liz, Julie, Austin, and Stephanie

celebrate their Neuron publication!

Stephanie and Julie discuss

data from the Neuron paper

Celebrating Dr. Condro’s success!

Steph (flanked by postdocs Julie and Nancy) receives an award for postdoctoral mentoring. 

Happy Groundhog Day!

2013

November:

1. -Jon, Zach, Liz, and Nancy present posters at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA.
   

2. -Qianqian passes her oral qualifying exam.
   

October:

1. -Julie officially accepted an Assistant Professor faculty position at the University of Arizona, Tucson!  She is jointly appointed by the Neuroscience and Speech, Language and Hearing departments 
   

September:

1. -Jon served as a “Genome Geek”  at the Smithsonian for a new exhibit called “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code”. He contributed to the exhibit by explaining that proper expression of FoxP2 in learned vocalizations is critical for learning.
   

2. - Nancy wins a SfN Chapter Travel Award.
   

July:

1. -Chae Kim receives an Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP) award.  
   

July:

1. -Nancy and Liz co-author a J. Neuroscience Journal Club article.
   

2. -We say goodbye to Mike as he begins his postdoc in Dr. Waschek’s lab at UCLA and to Lily as she begins medical school at Loma Linda Medical University.
   

3. -Jon passes his oral qualifying examination!
   

June:

1. -Three of our undergraduates graduate -  Congratulations Debora, Lily, and Omar!
   

2. -Jon is awarded a Edith Hyde Fellowship and Zach is awarded a Eureka Scholarship to support their graduate studies.
   

3. -Debora wins a Whitcome Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship!
   

May:

1. -Mike successfully defends his dissertation research.  Congratulations Dr. Condro!
   

2. -Liz passes her oral qualifying examination and is now a doctoral candidate.
   

3. -Qianqian, Jon, and Zach’s paper is accepted by Journal of Experimental Biology!
   

4. -Mike’s paper is accepted by Journal of Comparative Neurology!
   

5. -Nancy, Jon, and Zach receive travel awards to attend SfN this fall.
   

6. -Stephanie’s R01 is awarded!
   

April:

1. -Stephanie is a finalist for a postdoc mentoring award.
   

March:

1. -Mike will present his dissertation research and defend it May 31, 2013.
   

February:

1. -Nancy appears in the Los Angeles Times attending UCLA professor Dan Blumstein’s Annual Groundhog Day party.
   

2. -Elizabeth passes her written qualification exam for the MCIP Ph.D. program.
   

3. -Chae Kim joins the lab.

2014

December:

1. -Ben is awarded an Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
   

November:

1. -Liz and Jon present posters at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
   

2. -Liz’s research is featured by SFARI
   

3. -Both Jon and Liz receive awards to travel to Washington, D.C.
   

October:

1. -George begins his new position as a research assistant at the Institute for NeuroImaging and Informatics at USC.
   

September:

1. -George completes his Masters Degree in Physiological Science.
   

2. -Zach is awarded a Hyde Fellowship.
   

3. -Caitlin Aamodt joins the lab.
   

4. -Petra heads to Stanford for her freshman year of college.
   

August:

1. -Chae is awarded a second year of URSP.
   

2. -Violette speaks at the CSST research showcase.
   

3. -Petra’s research is feature on the TV show ‘TechKnow’ on Al-Jazeera America.
   

July:

1. -Nancy is awarded a Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Neuroethology.
   

2. -Nancy and Stephanie head to Japan to present talks at the International Congress on Neuroethology.
   

3. -Joe Simon joins the lab.
   

June:

1. -Yishan is awarded a Biomedical Research Summer Scholarship.
   

2. -Jingwen “Violette” Yao comes to the lab for the summer through the Chinese Scholars in Science and Technology program.
   

3. -Mandisa Taqqee visits as part of the BRI-SURE program.
   

May:

1. -Nancy is awarded a Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Neuroethology.
   

2. -Petra wins 2nd place in Behavioral/Social Sciences at ISEF! And, 3rd place from the American Psychological Association.
   

3. -Petra decides to attend Stanford University!
   

April:

1. -Jennifer Morales joined the lab.
   

2. -Petra won 1st Place in Zoology at the California State Science Fair. 
   

March:

1. -Petra won the Senior Division Behavioral and Social Science Category at the Los Angeles Science Fair and earned a spot at Intel’s Science and Engineering Fair in May!
   

2. -Zach, Nancy, and Stephanie headed to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to attend the Avian Genomics Workshop and Avian Model Systems Meeting.
   

January:

1. -Julie heads to Tucson, Arizona to start her Assistant Professorship.
   

2. -Jon is awarded a position on the Microcircuits Training Grant.

Most of the White Lab at SfN 2013

Jon, the Genome Geek

Petra and Nancy at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair where Petra earned 2nd in the Behavioral/Social Sciences category. 

2012

October:

1. -Stephanie gives a talk at TEDxUCLA.  Click here to view...
   

2. -Qianqian delivers her poster, “Comparative analysis of speech-related genes FoxP1 and FoxP2 and singing behavior in avian vocal learners” at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. 
   

August:

- Austin and Julie’s paper is accepted for publication at PloS Computational Biology. 

“Distinct neurogenomic states in basal ganglia subregions relate differently to singing behavior in songbirds”

1. -Julie receives an R03 from NINDS!
   

2. -Zach Burkett is appointed for another year to the “Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology” training grant
   

July:

1. -Undergraduates Debora Lee and Lily Sung are awarded CARE scholarships from UCLA.
   

May:

1. -Mike Condro is awarded the Edith Hyde Fellowship for 2012-2013 from the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology. 
   

April:

1. -Austin receives the Eva Mary Kavan Prize for Excellence on Research in the Brain.
   

2. -Nancy Day joins the lab as a postdoc from Teresa Nick’s birdsong lab at the University of Minnesota.
   

February:

1. -Austin, Julie, and Liz’s paper is published by Neuron!
   

“Molecular microcircuitry underlies the functional specification of a basal ganglia circuit dedicated to vocal learning”

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/a-bird-s-song-may-teach-us-about-229903.aspx

January:

1. -Austin Hilliard completes his Ph.D. in Neuroscience!

Petra took the High School Science Fair circuit by storm!

2015

November:

1. -The Laboratory for Neuroendocrinology selects Zach to receive funding on the T32
   

June:

1. -Qianqian completes her PhD in the MCIP program, and moves to New York to begin a Master’s degree in Theater.
   

May:

1. -Chae, Jenn, and Yishan are awarded Dean’s Prizes at Science Poster Day.
   

April:

1. -Zach passes his oral qualifying exam!
   

2. -Zach and Nancy’s paper is accepted at Scientific Reports.  Download VoICE on the ‘Code’ page
   

January:

1. -Jon’s manuscript examining FoxP2 overexpression and song learning in young birds is accepted by the Journal of Neuroscience

Liz presenting her poster at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

2016

September:

- Caitlin receives an Individual F31 (NRSA)

June:

1. -Caitlin passes her oral qualifying exam.
   

2. -Ben & Ava graduate from UCLA.  Ben will attend University of Arizona to pursue a Neuroscience PhD.
   

April:

1. -Jon successfully defends his dissertation work.  He begins a postdoc at UCSD in October.
   

2. -Liz’s manuscript examining ultrasonic vocalizations in mice is accepted at Scientific Reports
   

January:

-Nancy receives a Travelling Fellowship from the Journal of Experimental Biology to visit Dr. Sam Sober’s lab at Emory University to learn how to manipulate auditory feedback by custom-made bird headphones.