Gallery

July 2020

The Corbin Lab made it to Spectrum News! Congratulations Maria for your recent paper in Molecular Autism reported in Spectrum News:

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/autism-genes-may-play-key-role-in-development-of-amygdala/

June 2020

We welcome new graduate student David Saxon.

Dave is currently pursuing an MD/PhD. at Georgetown University’s interdisciplinary program in neuroscience.

May 2020

Congratulations to our former post-doc Maria Jesus Herrero on your paper acceptance to Molecular Autism!

“Identification of Amygdala-Expressed Genes Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder”
https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-020-00346-1

April 2020

Congratulations to our Post-doctoral Fellow Heidi Matos on your paper acceptance  to eNeuro 

“Sex Differences in Biophysical Signatures Across Molecularly Defined Medial Amygdala Neuronal Subpopulations”  https://www.eneuro.org/content/7/4/ENEURO.0035-20.2020

October 14 2019

Farewell lunch for Post-Doctoral Fellow Maria Jesus Herrero

left-right: David Hernandez Pineda, Dr. Maria Jesus Herrero, Dr. Joshua Corbin,
Allison Rusk, Dr. Li Wang, Dr. Heidi Matos Galicia.

July 31 2019

Summer Lab Lunch /
Farewell lunch for Summer Interns Wendolin Martinez and Dave Saxon

left-right: Dr. Maria Jesus Herrero, David Hernandez Pineda, Luke Tsai,
Dave Saxon, Dr. Joshua Corbin, Dr. Li Wang, Wendolin Garcia Martinez, Allison Rusk,
Dr. Heidi Matos-Galicia.

December 17, 2018

Corbin lab collaborative Autism Study published in the journal Autism Research

Link to article: https://innovationdistrict.childrensnational.org/pac1r-mutation-may-be-linked-to-severity-of-social-deficits-in-autism/

November 20, 2018

Julio’s Farewell Dinner

November 16, 2018

Society for Neuroscience DC Chapter Social

Former post-doc Katie Sokolowski (left) with current post-docs Maria and Heidi.

November 3-7, 2018

Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA 2018

Li and Maria presenting their work at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference and enjoying San Diego.

July 29-August 3, 2018

Gordon Research Conference

A group photo taken at the Gordon Research Conference for Neural Development in Newport, Rhode Island.

Maria (left) and Heidi (right) presenting their posters at the conference.

December 18, 2017

Saarthak, Li, Meredith, Maria, and Josh celebrated the holidays and the end of 2017 with a Cuban lunch outing!

November 17-22, 2017

Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC 2017

Members of the Corbin lab presented work at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC.

Past and present lab members also met for lunch!

Left-right: Heidi Matos Galicia, Laura Cocas, Maria Jesus Herrero, Mena Mohamed, Li Wang, Julieta Lischinsky, Meredith Goodrich, Rosalind Carney, Kevin Jones, and Joshua Corbin.

Li and Maria attended the SfN DCMA Chapter Networking Happy Hour Event

November 8, 2017

Autism Awareness Gala Fundraiser

Dr. Joshua Corbin and Dr. Lauren Kenworthy, the director of the Children’s Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, attended the 1st inaugural Autism Awareness Gala Fundraiser hosted by The Embassy of the state of Qatar in partnership with Autism Speaks! to show commitment to autism research and awareness.

August 10, 2017

End of Summer Lab Celebration

The Corbin lab celebrated Julieta’s final week in the Corbin lab before she makes her move to New York City to start working as a Post-Doc at NYU!

We also celebrated the success of our summer student scholars Mena Mohammed and Albino Folcarelli and the addition of Thomas Jefferson High School student Saarthak Sethi to our lab.

May 18, 2017

Julieta Lischinsky’s Doctoral Hooding Ceremony

Katie Sokolowski, Maria Jesus Herrero, Julieta Lischinsky, and Meredith Goodrich congratulated Julieta after her Doctoral Hooding Ceremony at The George Washington University.

April 27, 2017

Annual George Washington Institute for Neuroscience Symposium

Meredith presenting her poster at the GW Neuroscience Symposium.

April 26, 2017

Nobel Prize winner Dr. Mario Capecchi visited the Center for Neuroscience!

Students and Post-Docs had the pleasure of having lunch with Dr. Capecchi!

April 12, 2017

Celebrating Julieta’s successful dissertation with the whole Center for Neuroscience

April 7, 2017

Press release for Corbin lab publication in eLife!

Read about how transcription factor expression is tied to medial amygdala neuronal ID in this recent press release!

January 10, 2017

Don’t forget to submit an abstract for GW Research Days!

Julieta presenting her poster at GW Research days in 2016

December 13, 2016

Lab lunch outing!

Maria, Julieta, Meredith, Josh, and Livio celebrated the end of 2016 with a festive lunch.

August 28, 2016

End of Summer barbecue

After a great summer, the Corbin and Zohn labs got together for a backyard barbecue.

June, 2016

A farewell lunch for Katie

Our lab and the Triplett lab joined together to have a final celebratory lunch before Katie’s transition to a new job at the FDA!

Left-right: Julieta Lischinsky, Meredith Goodrich, Joshua Corbin, Livio Oboti, Jason Triplett, Katie Sokolowski, Tuyen Tran, Rachel Kay.

May 21, 2016

Katie Sokolowski publishes in Neural Development

April 1-2, 2016

Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Annual Conference

Julieta was inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society that recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate. Here she is pictured at the Bouchet Leadership Award Dinner at Yale with GWU Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Jeffrey Brand, Yale’s President Peter Salovey, University of Miami’s President Julio Frenk, and a fellow Bouchet inductee, Hakim Walker. 

January 20, 2016

Dr. Corbin presented at the Children’s National Hospital Grand Rounds

You can view his Grand Rounds presentation here!

August 2-8, 2015

Livio and Julieta attended the Gordon Research Seminar 

A group photo taken at the Amygdala in Health and Disease: Gordon Research Seminar and Conference at Stonehill College, Massachusetts 

July 22, 2015

Lab outing at the Nationals game  

 Pictured: Julieta Lischinsky, Meredith Goodrich, Mira (a student in the Triplett lab), Josh and Simon Corbin, Katie Sokolowski, Meg Carter, Jason Triplett, and Livio Oboti.

July 20, 2015

Celebrating Katie Sokolowski’s art show, Animalia!

“Animalia celebrates the biodiversity of the animal kingdom in a series of paintings using a brilliant color palette of inks and watercolors.  Seven main pieces depict parades of forty charismatic species from the seven continents.  Overflowing the seven main pieces are smaller paintings intended to hold a magnifying glass up to the animals that were too small in size, too big in personality, or too many in number to be included in the main paintings. Intentionally devoid of a background and even shadows, these pieces raise awareness of what can be lost as a consequence to environmental destruction and habitat loss.  Many of these species are fighting for survival similar to the kids coming through Children’s National.  Like these animals, every child has a distinct personality that shines despite difficult trials – each child, a jewel worth treasuring.”

 May 1, 2015

2015 GW Neuroscience Symposium

Julieta presents “Aggression or mating: Role of two distinct embryonically expressed transcription factors in behavioral control and medial amygdala neuronal diversity.”

April 9, 2015

Neuron Volume 86, Issue 2 cover art

On the cover: This piece, created by Katie Sokolowski, playfully references “gene patterning” by alluding to the beautiful patchwork of intricate quilts. Icons of related behaviors, such as predator avoidance, stress, and feeding, juxtapose one another diagonally and are stitched together by a double helix that links an embryo to neuronal circuitry. Together, this illustrates the finding that the embryonic patterning gene, Dbx1, is required for the formation of select neural circuits and innate stress behaviors. In contrast, icons of other innate behaviors such as mating, aggression, and maternal care, which were also investigated in the paper by Sokolowski et al. (pages 403–416), are stitched by separate double helixes. This illustrates that development of circuits that regulate these behaviors are controlled by other gene(s).

April 9, 2015

A video abstract for Dr. Sokolowski’s publication in Neuron

Specification of Select Hypothalamic circuits and Innate Behaviors by the Embryonic Patterning Gene Dbx1