Announcements

2023

  • December 22nd 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Baruc Campos for being awarded the 2024 American Heart Association Post-doctoral Fellowship Award!

  • 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!