News
Spring 2025
Congratulations to Poppy for being named a Schmidt Science Fellow (April 2025).
Congratulations to Styra and Coco on their acceptance into graduate programs. Styra will be attending the Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience and Coco will be attending the MIT Bioengineering Graduate Program (April 2025).
Congratulations to Marcus for passing his qualification exams and advancing to doctoral candidacy (March 2025).
The lab turned two years old (March 2025)!
We welcome Omkar Ghenand and Alfonso Restrepo as spring rotation students from the Bioengineering Graduate Program (March 2025).
Winter 2024
Congratulations to Regan for passing his qualification exams and advancing to doctoral candidacy (December 2024).
Second annual summer retreat completed at Yosemite National Park (November 2024).
Our lab publishes our first perspective in ACS Nano (October 2024).
Thank you to the UCSF BARI Collaborative Projects Award and UCSF Catalyst Award for funding support.
We were awarded a Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition Grant from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
Summer 2024
We welcome Poppy Oldroyd as our first postdoctoral fellow. She previously completed her PhD under the mentorship of George Mariallas at the University of Cambridge (August 2024).
Congratulations to Leo and Mingyang for passing their qualification exams and advancing to doctoral candidacy (August 2024).
Congratulations to Krisco for being awarded a Hearts to Humanity Eternal (H2H8) research grant award (July 2024).
We are delighted to officially welcome Krisco Cheung (Bioengineering) and Marcus Williams (Bioengineering, MSTP) as graduate students to our lab. Krisco is our second Bioengineering graduate student. Marcus, our third Bioengineering graduate student, is jointly mentored by the Nowakowski lab (May 2024).
SPRING 2024
The lab is now one year old! We celebrated with cake and pizza (March 2024)!
We welcome Marcus Williams from the MSTP Program, Iyla Rossi from the Bioengineering Graduate Program and Xinyang Yi from the Neuroscience Graduate Program for their spring rotations (March 2024).
Congratulations to Sam Coury for being awarded a NDSEG fellowship based on our lab's work (April 2024).
Winter 2023
We welcome Krisco Cheung and Adi Jangid from the Bioengineering Graduate Program and Brenda Wu from the Neuroscience Graduate Program for their winter rotations (January 2024).
We were awarded a New Frontier Research Award from the UCSF Sandler Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research .
FALL 2023
Undergraduate students Neekon Saadat, Xiangzong Song, Mateo Sulejmani, and Vincent Lertchareonyong join our team (October 2023).
Richard Demann heads home to start medical school. We said goodbye with a hot pot and beach outing (October 2023).
We welcome Sam Coury as a fall rotation student from the Bioengineering Graduate Program (September 2023).
We were awarded a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering.
Summer 2023
First annual summer retreat completed at Sequoia National Park (August 2023).
Leo Zsembik officially joins as our first graduate student from the Neuroscience Graduate Program (August 2023).
Mingyang Ma officially joins as our first graduate student from the Biomedical Sciences Program. He is co-mentored with the Fu lab (July 2023).
Styra Wang joins the team as our first junior specialist (July 2023).
Regan Zhang officially joins as our first graduate student from the Bioengineering Graduate Program (May 2023).
Undergraduate students Coco Zhang, Ananya Srinivasan, Andrew Lee, Ling Yin, and Richard Demann joins for summer research (May 2023).
We were awarded a Klingenstein-Simons Foundation Award.
Ritchie was awarded the Freedman Prize from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.
Spring 2023
Lab launched on March 1st, 2023 at the Weill Institue for Neurosciences.
The lab receives a two-year grant from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation.