News
08/2026 - Our collaborative paper about computational models of social interaction rules in schooling Danionella, led by our UCSD colleagues Palka Puri and Yonatan Aljadeff, is now published in Physical Review Letters. Congratulations Palka, Yonatan, Geoff, Julia, and David! UCSD’s press release here
07/2026 - Rose, Grace, Geoff, and both Matts present at the Neuroethology Meeting
07/2026 - Matt is awarded the Konishi Neuroethology Prize from the International Society for Neuroethology
06/2026 - Congratulations to Dr. Grace Padilla for successfully defending her PhD in Neurosciences!!!
06/2026 - Congratulations to Dr. Jo-Hsien Yu for successfully defending her PhD in Biological Sciences!!!
04/2026 - Katie is awarded a Doupe Fellowship and Ruby is awarded a Pecot Fellowship, both from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. Congrats both!
02/2026 - Evelyn wins the award for best poster at the SACNAS meeting!
01/2026 - Our paper on genetic basis of collective behavior in schooling Danionella is published in Cell Reports- congratulations David, and our colleagues Nick and Benjamin!
11/2025 - We host the 3rd annual Danionella meeting in La Jolla, in advance of the lab’s presentations at SfN
09/2025 - Julia wins the award for best student talk at the Biological Sciences program retreat!
09/2025 - Julia is awarded an NIH F31 grant for her work in Danionella. Congratulations!!
09/2025 - Ruby joins the lab!
08/2025 - Jimjohn departs for grad school at UW - congratulations!!
08/2025 - Matt W joins as a joint PhD student with the Allen Discovery Center for the Neurobiology of Changing Environments,
07/2025 - Rose joins as a joint postdoctoral fellow with the Allen Discovery Center for the Neurobiology of Changing Environments,
06/2025 - Matt is named a McKnight Scholar (thanks UCSD)
05/2025 - Wataru Joins the lab, and is awarded a JSPS Fellowship!
01/2025 - Katie publishes a perspective on a recent study in Current Biology
10/2024 - Geoff joins the lab!
09/2024 - The lab begins our work with the newly established Allen Discovery Center for the Neurobiology of Changing Environments, a collaboration with our colleagues at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. UCSD news story here
09/2024 - Jo-Hsien wins the award for best student talk at the Biological Sciences program retreat!
09/2024 - Evelyn joins the lab!
07/2024 - David departs for Israel, to continue collaborative work at Bar-Ilan University
07/2024 - Our paper on the neurodevelopment of collective behavior in schooling Danionella is published in Current Biology - congratulations David, Lisanne, Jo-Hsien, Julia, Princess, and Jimjohn!! UCSD news story here
06/2024 - Jo-Hsien and Julia publish their review on the neurobiology of collective behavior, in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
05/2024 - Katie is awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation! Congrats Katie!!! UCSD News story
04/2024 - Lisanne departs for Paris, to continue collaborative work in Filippo del Bene’s lab at Sorbonne University
10/2023 - Matt receives the NIH Director's New Innovator Award (thanks UCSD!)
08/2023 - Princess departs for grad school at UW - congratulations!!
07/2023 - Jimjohn joins the lab!
07/2023 - Julia heads off to Lisbon, to the Cajal course on Machine Learning for Neuroscience!
04/2023 - Katie joins the lab!
02/2023 - Lisanne and David publish their perspective on zebrafish brain maps
09/2022 - Jen re-joins the lab as a PhD student in Biology!!
06/2022 - Matt is named a Pew Biomedical Scholar to study the neurobiology of group behavior (thanks UCSD!)
06/2022 - Julia joins the lab!
05/2022 - Jo-Hsien and Grace head off to Woods Hole, to the Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory! Fun!
04/2022 - Grace and Jennifer are selected to be NSF Graduate Research Fellows! Congratulations to you both!
03/2022 - Lisanne is selected to be a Postdoctoral Scholar of the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind! Congrats Lisanne!!!
03/2022 - David is selected to be a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Human Frontier Science Program! Congrats David!!!
02/2022 - Matt receives a Sloan Fellowship to study collective behavior (thanks UCSD!)
02/2022 - David joins the lab!
10/2021 - Matt receives a Packard Fellowship to study collective decision making (thanks UCSD!)
07/2021 - Jo-Hsien joins the lab!
06/2021 - Matt and Mikio Aoi receive a KIBM Innovative Research Grant Award to study neuromodulator flow
06/2021 - Matt receives a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship to study internal state persistence
06/2021 - Matt receives a Searle Scholar Award to study collective behavior
06/2021 - Grace joins the lab!
04/2021 - Lisanne joins the lab!
11/2020 - Lab running smoothly!
08/2020 - Jennifer and Princess join the lab!
07/2020 - Lab opens (with masks)
