Mateo I. Sanchez, Quynh-Anh Nguyen, Wenjing Wanga, Ivan Soltesz, Alice Y. Ting. PNAS 2020, Dec 29; 117 (52) 33186-33196. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2006521117.

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Darian Hadjiabadi, Matthew Lovett-Barron, Ivan Raikov, Fraser Sparks, Zhenrui Liao, Scott C. Baraban, Jure Leskovec, Attila Losonczy, Karl Deisseroth, Ivan Soltesz bioRxiv 2020.10.20.340364; doi: 10.1101/2020.10.20.340364. Online ahead of print.

Ao Dong, Kaikai He, Barna Dudok, Jordan S Farrell, Wuqiang Guan, Daniel J Liput, Henry L Puhl, Ruyi Cai, Jiali Duan, Eddy Albarran, Jun Ding, David M Lovinger, Bo Li, Ivan Soltesz, Yulong Li. bioRxiv 2020.10.08.329169; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.08.329169. Online ahead of print.

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Chen R, Gore F, Nguyen QA, Ramakrishnan C, Patel S, Kim SH, Raffiee M, Kim YS, Hsueh B, Krook-Magnusson E, Soltesz I, Deisseroth K.Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Oct 5. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0679-9. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33020604

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URee Chon has graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Pennsylvania State University. As a first year rotating Neuroscience graduate student at Stanford, she is mentored by Dr. Nguyen in the Soltesz lab.

Shreya Malhotra is a first-year medical student at Stanford. In the lab, she will be studying the role of hippocampal circuitry in epilepsy. She will be working closely with Dr. Dudok.

Jesslyn Homidan is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where she received her B.A. in Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology. At Berkeley, she worked as an undergraduate apprentice in Dr. Na Ji’s Lab conducting biophysics research on the thalamus and visual cortex. Jesslyn is excited about her new role as a Research Assistant in our lab.

Farrell JS, Colangeli R, Dudok B, Wolff MD, Nguyen SL, Jackson J, Dickson CT, Soltesz I, Teskey GC.Sci Rep. 2020 Sep 14;10(1):14992. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71935-6.PMID: 32929133

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Aaron Milstein has accepted his new position at Rutgers University. He is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Neuroscience and Cell Biology and the Dept. of Neurosurgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and a resident faculty member at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. As an Instructor mentored by Ivan Soltesz, Aaron developed large biologically-detailed neuronal network models to dissect the circuit components of memory and dysfunction in epilepsy.

The Soltesz Team is wishing him all the best in his new career path!

Barna Dudok received a K99/R00 Career Development Award, entitled “Perisomatic inhibition in epilepsy”. He will study the role of a specific type of GABAergic inhibitory interneuron (cholecystokinin-expressing basket cells) in controlling hippocampal network activity in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy using in vivo calcium imaging.