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