Announcements

2024

  • December 8th, 2024: Joint Portera/Zeiger Lab Holiday Party!

    Members of the Zeiger and Portera labs at a holiday party

     

    Members of the Zeiger and Portera labs at a holiday party
  • October 26th, 2024: Dr. Zeiger presents on treatments for Parkinson's disease at the inaugural UCLA Howard and Irene Levine Family Center for Movement Disorders "Innovations in Movement Disorders" Symposium. View the symposium recording here.

  • October 5th - 9th, 2024: Dr. Zeiger and Dr. Aye Theint Theint attend the 2024 Society for Neuroscience Meeting and present lab research.

    Dr. Aye Theint Theint presenting her research at SFN in 2024.

     

    Dr. Zeiger presenting a research poster at SFN 2024

October 4th, 2024: Dr. Zeiger presents lab research at the 37th Annual Barrels Meeting in Chicago.

  • September 15th, 2024: Dr. Zeiger presents lab research in the Neurorecovery and Neuroplasticity Special Interest Group Session at the American Neurological Association annual meeting in Orlando.
  • September 9th, 2024: Welcome back to the lab, Noe! Noe graduates from an undergraduate researcher to a full-time Lab Assistant.

  • August 20th, 2024: Exciting new lab equipment - a mini2P for recording neural activity in freely moving animals!

    A miniaturized two-photon microscope next to a lifesaver candy
  • August 18th - September 1st, 2024: Dr. Aye Theint Theint attends the Allen Institute Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain.
  • July 23 - August 13th, 2024: Dr. Campos attends the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting Imaging Structure & Function in the Nervous System
  • June 20th, 2024: Farewell to our lab manager, and first-ever Zeiger Lab member, Brenda. We're so proud that Brenda will be staying at UCLA for a combined MD/MPH program at the David Geffen School of Medicine this fall. 
  • June 14th, 2024: Congratulations to Sid, Ashley, and Noe on their graduation from UCLA! We will miss them as they advance in their careers towards becoming physicians.
  • May 31st, 2024: Thank you to the American Parkinson Disease Association for awarding us the 2024 Cotzias Fellowship. This funding will help support our research into the microcircuit mechanisms of posterior cortical dysfunction and cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease.
  • May 22nd, 2024: Thank you to the Dan Lewis Foundation for Brain Regeneration Research for awarding us the 2024 DLF Prize. This prize will help support our research into the microcircuit mechanisms regulating somatosensory circuit remapping after cortical injury.
  • May 13th, 2024: Welcome to a new post-doctoral scholar, Dr. Sammy Alhassen. Dr. Alhassen joins us after completing his Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the University of California, Irvine.
  • April 8th, 2024: Thanks to Dr. Daniel Ts'o and the SUNY Upstate Medical University for inviting and hosting Dr. Zeiger for the 2024 Neuro Research Day.
  • March 25th, 2024: Dr. Zeiger presents at the inaugural UCLA "Howard and Irene Levine Family Center for Movement Disorders Symposium". Many thanks to the Levine family for their generous support of the newly established Howard and Irene Levine Family Center for Movement Disorders. 
  • February 12th, 2024: Welcome to a new undergraduate research volunteer, Aayush Verma.

2023

  • December 22nd 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Baruc Campos for being awarded the 2024 American Heart Association Post-doctoral Fellowship Award!
  • December 14th, 2023: Congratulations to Scarlett for completion of her Master's degree in physiological sciences!
  • December 2023: Lab holiday celebrations!
Members of the Zeiger Lab sitting around an outdoor fireplace at a lab holiday party

 

A collage of silly photos featuring members of the Zeiger Lab at the 2023 UCLA Neurology Holiday Party
  • November 11th-15th: The 2023 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Baruc, Theint Theint, and Brenda all presented posters. Our lab also co-chaired the "Rethinking Remapping" mini-symposium, at which Baruc gave an oral presentation.
Ms. Brenda Vasquez posing in front of her poster at the SfN 2023 Annual Meeting
Dr. Baruc Campos presenting his findings at a poster at the SfN 2023 Annual Meeting
  • August 07, 2023: Check out our new paper. Simple methods to adapt your upright 2P microscope
    Simple methods to adapt your upright 2P microscope to perform high-sensitivity intrinsic signal imaging
  • August 01, 2023: Thanks to the American Parkinson's Disease Association
    Thanks to the American Parkinson's Disease Association for funding a 1 year research grant to explore the effects of a-synuclein on the function of interneurons in visual cortical processing

  • June 06, 2023: Farewell dinner for Callie. Thank you for all your hard work in the lab!
     

    Members of the Zeiger Lab at a farewell dinner for our lab technician Callie.
  • May 30, 2023: Congratulations to Iris on acceptance into the EPSRC Sustainable Approaches to Biomedical Sciences PhD program at Oxford University!
  • May 08, 2023: Brenda wins a 2nd place poster award at UCLA Neurology Science Day!
  • February 13, 2023: Visiting graduate researcher Iris Marmouset joins the lab
  • January 20, 2023: Our lab's first R01 is funded!
    We will use 2P in vivo imaging and chemogenetics to explore the reciprocal relationship between cortical circuit dsyfunction and a-synuclein pathology in mouse models of PD.
  • January 09, 2023: Undergraduate students Rochelle Mosley and Britney Burnasky join the lab

2022

  • December 20, 2022: Congratulations to Noe & Sid on their acceptance into the Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program for 2023!

  • December 18, 2022: Lab holiday BBQ party
     

    The Portera and Zeiger labs celebrate the holiday season with a BBQ.

  • November 16, 2022: Dr. Campos Presenting his poster
     

    Dr. Campos presents his research at a poster during the 2022 Society for Neuroscience Meeting.

  • November 12, 2022: Joint Portera-Cailliau. Zeiger Lab & Friends! Dinner
     

    Members of the Portera and Zeiger Labs join old colleagues for dinner at the 2022 Society for Neuroscience Meeting.

  • August 05, 2022: Congratulations to Ashley for admission into the UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholars Program for 2022-2023!

  • July 01, 2022: Welcome to Dr. Aye Theint Theint, a new post-doctoral scholar in the lab

  • May 26, 2022: Congratulations to Noe on receiving the Dean's Life Science Award to conduct summer research in the lab!

  • May 09, 2022: Our new lab assistant, Callie Liu, joins the lab

  • May 03, 2022: Joint Portera/Zeiger Lab Neuroscience outreach event at East College Prep
     

    Members of the Zeiger Lab at a neuroscience outreach event at East College Prep.
    Members of the Zeiger Lab give a presentation on careers in neuroscience at East College Prep.

  • April 25, 2022: Our collaboration "Ivestigating circuit defects underlying motor and non-motor symptoms in PD" is funded by the Laurie and Steven C. Gordon Parkinson's disease grant program

  • February 18, 2022: Our collaboration "A regenerative drug discovery pipeline for repair after stroke" is funded by the DGSOM/CTSI/Regenerative Medicine Theme Seed Grant

  • January 24, 2022: Undergraduate students Ashley Cao & Noe Cazares join the lab

  • January 04, 2022: Master's student Scarlett Ramos Rodriguez joins the lab

2021

  • November 16, 2021: Joint Portera/Zeiger Lab Neuroscience outreach event at East College Prep

    Members of the Portera and Zeiger Labs at a neuroscience outreach event at East College Prep.
    Members of the Portera and Zeiger Labs give a presentation on careers in neuroscience at East College Prep.

  • September 21, 2021: Joint Portera/Buonomano/Zeiger lab party at Santa Monica Beach!

  • September 20, 2021: Undergraduate student Mani Eftekhari joins the lab

  • September 17, 2021: Welcome back to campus to all the undergraduate students!

  • August 05, 2021: A collaborative project with Dr. Aparna Bhaduri and Carlos Portera-Cailliau is funded by the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research

  • June 22, 2021: Undergraduate student Sid Panda joins the lab

  • May 21, 2021: Undergraduate student Johnny Thai and Post-bac student Ann Chen join the lab

  • April 12, 2021: Dr. Zeiger's K08 is approved for funding at NINDS!

  • April 01, 2021: Welcome to our new post-doctoral scholar, Dr. Baruc Campos, PhD

  • March 17, 2021: Dr. Zeiger presents an oral abstract at the International Stroke Conference

2020

  • November 16, 2020: New Thorlabs Bergamo RGG multiphoton microscope gets installed (mostly...)

  • November 10, 2020: Check out our new pre-print investigating plasticity of circuits in the somatosensory cortex throughout recovery after stroke.

  • October 21, 2020: Insight X3 laser is installed for our multiphoton microscope set-up

  • October 19, 2020: Welcome to our new lab manager, Brenda Vasquez

  • July 01, 2020: The Zeiger lab is open!