LAB NEWS

Lab news and the record of how our team is growing! See our pictures below!

Sep, 2023.

  • Shin lab opened!

Oct, 2023.

  • Welcome! Elliot Dion joined as a lab manager and research associate and Jordan Turner joined as a research intern. Katherine Cruze joined as the first student assistant.

  • Grace presented the lab’s research at the Annual Scientific Meeting, Comprehensive Cancer Center, OSU & Neuroscience Research Institute Annual Meeting, OSU.

  • Hana Starobova (UQ, Australia) visited the Shin Lab.

Nov, 2023.

  • Grace presented the lab’s research at the Grand Rounds Meeting, Neurology, OSU

Dec, 2023.

  • Welcome! Surith Krishna and Vanessa Sims joined as student assistants. Start of the UG team!

  • The lab now has functioning fly stations!

  • Grace went back to Columbia to present her K01 progress for the year 1. Pictures with Carol Mason and the Grueber lab.

  • The Neurology Holiday party took place at the Columbus Art Museum. A lab photo with Luke, Elliot and April, and a photo with the Neurology colleagues.

Jan, 2024.

  • Welcome! Elizabeth Angel joined the lab as a senior technician.

  • Our attempt to not get sick altogether..

  • The first biannual Shin Lab Value Meeting took place.

Mar, 2024.

  • SoRa-W1 got installed in the lab!

  • Welcome! Callie Barber joined the lab as the first graduate student.

  • Grace presented the lab’s research at the Neuroimmunology Symposium at UT Southwestern’s Brain Institute and visited colleagues at UT Dallas, UT Southwestern, and UT Houston. A photo with our department chair, Ben Segal.

Apr, 2024.

  • Congratulations! NINDS, NIH, funded an R01 application in collaboration with Sangmin Jeon and Mike Caterina. Grace will serve as a co-I, 2024-2029.

  • The lab attended the first virtual USAPS conference together.

May, 2024.

  • On a Friday evening, after flipping many fly trays together, enjoying CM chicken together.

  • Grace presented the lab’s work at the Investigator Meeting at Johns Hopkins Merkin Center.

June, 2024.

  • Summer birthday party for Grace and Surith.

Aug, 2024.

  • Grace joined the Pelotonia fundraising event as a challenger.

  • The first Shin Lab Annual Symposium took place over 2 days. We invited Tae Gyu Oh from OU (Multi-omics integration and disease modeling) and Elisabetta Babetto from our own OSU (Schwann cells and neuron metabolism) as keynote speakers. Everyone in the lab shared their progress and plans, and Grace presented the summary of our progress and vision for the second year.

  • The second biannual Shin Lab Value Meeting took place at Marcela’s, Short North.

  • Congratulations! An abstract submitted by Grace and Elliot was selected for a talk at the 8th Axon Degeneration Conference in DC in September 2024. Grace will present the lab’s work in the Axon Degeneration and Disease session. Elliot will join the conference as the first author of the abstract. https://hopkinscme.cloud-cme.com/course/courseoverview?P=5&EID=52443