Holla!! Danielle and Kelvin both win the prestigious Harrison award

Congrats to Kelvin and Danielle for winning the Harrison award.  See description:

Made possible through the extraordinary generosity of the late David A. Harrison III and his family, the Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards fund outstanding undergraduate research projects.

The University of Virginia's Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards program funds outstanding undergraduate research projects to be carried out in the summer following application for the award and the subsequent academic year. 

Congrats to Danielle, Dawson, and Kelvin for Receiving Intermediate Honors!!

Kelvin, CD, and Danielle at Fall convocation.

Movin on up.

Here are some long overdue pics of the lab moving out of the old space and into the new space.

Kelvin goes 3 for 3

Congrats to Kelvin for being awarded the Ingrassia Research Grant from the Echols Scholars Program!

Chris and Kazusa go to the Neurotrophin Gordon Conference, June 2011

Interacting with the community

Catching up with old Friends:

Kelvin is on a roll!

Kelvin Chan in our lab just won the Kenneth C. Bass research scholarship from Chemistry Department.  This will support his research on the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal death during development.

Congrats to Kelvin on winning a grant!

Persistence and hard work pay off!  Second year undergrad, Kelvin Chan has just been awarded a research/travel grant from the University to support his work in our lab.

Thanks to the NIH/NINDS!

We have just been awarded an R01 grant from the NIH/NINDS which will fund our work over the next 5 years.

The generations meet---BJ Taparowsky visits our lab

Back: Dawson, Danielle, Pam, Jian, Catherine

Front: Me (I think I might be getting a little chunky), BJ, Kazusa

Apple Picking To Celebrate Catherine's Birthday

We had an awesome time picking apples, drinking cider, and eating donuts.  Not a bad way to spend a Friday afternoon.....

Happy B-Day Catherine!!!

Left to Right: Jian, Catherine, Danielle, Chris, Pam, Kazusa

Kudos to Catherine and Kelvin

Catherine and Kelvin have just joined Danielle as Echols Scholars.  This is a distinct honor shared by only 8.5% of undergrads at UVa.  

From the Echols website:

"The Echols Scholars Program is predicated upon the Jeffersonian ideal of freedom of inquiry and the development of critical thought. It offers special opportunities to those undergraduates in the College of Arts & Sciences who are its most avid learners."

way to go guys!

Congrats to Rebecca!

Huzzah! Rebecca has accepted her dream job as an editor for cell press and is off to Boston.  She'll be missed.

Another Visitor-Eliot

Back row: CD, Kelvin; Front Row: Kazusa, Eliot, Danielle

Eliot hard at work

Thank you to the Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology!

Our lab has just received the FEST award.  Check out the press release here:

http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=12166

Our first international visitors

Back: Pam and Me

Front: Kazusa's friends from Japan: Norimune, Hiroko, Kazusa, and Tetsuhiro

Check out pics of the scopes

http://www.kucenaslab.com/wwwkucenaslabcomlabnews/2010/4/13/kucenasdeppmann-imaging-suite.html

"Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!"

-The Emperor, Return of the Jedi

Incredible TED talk on sustainable food

Thank you to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation!

The Alfred P. Sloan foundation has recognized our lab with a grant.  Keep on the lookout for the announcement in the New York Times (section A) on or around March 2nd.

Update on 2010-03-04 14:13 by Chris Deppmann

Meet the Deppmann lab mascot

Depplab book club (Feb)--The biography of HeLa cells

Our book of the month is about Henrietta Lacks and the famous HeLa cells derived from the cancer that eventually killed her (thanks for the suggestion Pam!).   Lot's of interesting ethical issues here.  It all happened in Baltimore at  my beloved Johns Hopkins, and naturally people are very proud of this accomplishment but should they be?

Checck out this NPR interview with the author: