​In the Goodrich Lab, we study how neural circuits develop and function. ​Our goals are to produce knowledge and train the next generation of scientists in a supportive, welcoming environment that upholds the highest standards of scientific rigor. We place high value on interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches that allow us to tackle fundamental questions at the molecular, cellular, and physiological levels. Through journal clubs, lab meetings, small group meetings, and lab retreats, we work collectively to move our science forward and to help each other to thrive. We believe that people from all walks of life should feel at home in our lab. Current lab members come from all over the USA and from four continents. Our trainees contribute to society by applying their scientific expertise in a variety of careers, at the bench and beyond.
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May 2024: Welcome Mel, our SHURP student who will be working with Isle. And congratulations to Katelyn who attended her first Cold Spring Harbor Labs Sympathetics conference! Ahh summer, when the 4 degree cold room becomes a refuge for sweaty souls.
March 2024: Can't stop won't stop! Congratulations to Lauren and Sydney, the Octopus cell paper is up on bioArxiv! Also congratulations to Steve Henle, a former postdoc in the lab, who was promoted and awarded tenure as a Neuroscience professor at Carthage College!
February 2024: Austen, Michelle and Gabe worked super hard to give you all the second LOC paper, which is now up on bioArxiv. Congratulations!! Also, in less happy news, we wished goodbye to our lab manager, Lucy. You were a rock in the lab for many of us and you will be sorely missed! Good luck with your dental school applications! However, we welcomed Yi-Chia who joined the lab as a graduate student. We move!!
January 2024: Goodrich Lab goes to ARO again, and Ryan experienced his first scientific conference. Also join us in welcoming Noah, our new-er rotation student!
December 2023: Welcome Yi-Chia! She'll be rotating in our lab.
November 2023: We wished Grace goodbye as she ended her rotation in the lab. Did you catch Lauren and Sydney in DC at SFN Poster145.02/X1 and NANO24 on Sunday November 12? We heard they killed it!
October 2023: Isle's paper is up on bioArxiv! Sydney and Gabe gave bomb presentations at the Neurobiology Department Pizza Talks. We also had a lovely lab outing on a beautiful day right in downtown Boston.
September 2023: Welcome Jess, our new graduate student, and Ryan! Jess will join the glia team and Ryan will join Lucy as a lab manager/research technician. We had a gEAR workshop led by Zack and a Jupyter notebook workshop by Isle and Joy.
August 2023: Welcome Rees! We began the new academic year with a lab clean up. Lisa led an illustrator workshop on making figures as part of our Summer Lunch and Learn series.
July 2023: Welcome our new postdoctoral fellow Mariah Hazlett and a rotating student Grace Chaves! We also began our summer Lunch and Learn series on Mouse Husbandry.
June 2023: We bid Evelyn goodbye and good luck as she left to start her own lab at the Pontifical University of Chile. We also had a lab retreat at Lisa's mother's cabin in New Hampshire where we discussed the state of the lab, learned more about our weaknesses and strengths as a group, and made plans for a year of experiments!
May 2023: In the Goodrich lab, while Lisa travels far and wide sharing our research at other universities, we are getting ready for the end of the school year with a quarterly lab clean up! We're updating our digital inventories, taking care of our lab jobs and cleaning our benches, common areas and lab fridges/freezers. We're going to have a productive summer!
April 2023: Congrats to our dear Katelyn on being awarded an NSF GRFP grant! Looking forward to her amazing contributions to our research!! We also bid bittersweet farewells to our very own Andressa. We wish her the best of luck with medical school applications!
March 2023: Good news everywhere! Brikha and Lorna's paper on Runx1 is published!! And Michelle and Austen's paper on the Olivocochlear Efferents has been accepted for publication! Go Goodrich Lab!!
February 2023: We are starting February with the entire lab attending the 2023 ARO MidWinter Meeting. Catch Isle at SA90, Gabe at SA155, Evelyn at MO75, Sydney at MO74 and Austen at TU75. And our very own Lauren will be giving a talk on Monday!!
January 2023: The Goodrich lab began this new year with a quarterly lab clean up. We organized our mousekepedia (the mouse line inventory for the lab), updated the roadmaps on our server folders to make sure our work is accessible to others in the lab, defrosted bay freezers and got organized to start the new year's experiments with a bang!
December 2022: Good news all around :) Isle defended her Thesis!! Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Bastille!! Evelyn and Austen gave bomb talks at the Neurobiology Departmental Seminar! Evelyn received an Ibro Rising Star Award towards her soon-to-open lab at UCatolica in Santiago, Chile! Cynthia joined the lab!!! Welcome Cynthia! And Jess finished her rotation with us. We hope you'll come back soon Jess! We also had a swell time at Lisa's Holiday party although Gabe and Busola could not be there.
September 2022: Cynthia and Jessica began their rotations in the lab! Cynthia will be working with Isle on the cMaf project and Jess is joining Zack on Glia team. We're so happy to have you in the lab and we hope you enjoy your rotation. We said bye to Busola who went home to Nigeria to renew her visa but will return!
August 2022: Our very own Gabe Romero was named a HHMI Hannah Gray Fellow! You can view his profile here and see that it was well-deserved
June 2022: Congratulations to Zack who was awarded a Fix Postdoctoral Fellowship!
May 2022: Katelyn joined the lab as a graduate student!! Good bye and good luck to Siobhan who worked with Lauren during her co-op! And welcome to Andressa who graduated from college and will be joining the lab full-time as a research assistant for the glia project!
April 2022: The lab has been awarded an RO1 grant to support continued work on glia! And Olumide ended his rotation with us. We hope he comes back :)
March 2022: Welcome Gizem! She is a PiN student who will be rotating with us.
February 2022: Evelyn's paper on Fat3 is now published!
January 2022: Happy New Year! Welcome to the new rotation students Olumide and Katelyn, and to our new postdoc Zack!
December 2021: Best of luck to Corena who finished a rotation in our lab!
October 2021: Welcome Andressa! She is an undergrad at Emmanuel College who will be completing a senior thesis under Busola's supervision.
September 2021: Congrats to current lab members Busola, Isle and Austen on their accepted paper on peripheral glia diversity, a collaboration with first author Ozge Tasdemir-Yilmaz from Roz Segal's lab. Noah, Evan and Andrea are also featured!
August 2021: Lauren was awarded an F32 grant to study Octopus cells! And the lab won a Diversity supplement to support Jaysen!
July 2021: Welcome to our first PiNBAC student, Jaysen Lara-Jimenez! Welcome to Boston Lucy Lee!!
June 2021: Welcome to our Amgen Scholar Caroline Yuk!
April 2021: Welcome to our newest post-doc Gabe Romero!
January 2021: Check out Austen's awesome essay to learn more about wiring strategies during neuronal development.
November 2020: The Fat3 project was awarded an R21!
November 2020: Check out the role of glia in cochlear wiring in our new published paper. Congrats Evan, Noah, and Busola!
November 2020: Lab awarded Brain Initiative Grant to study octopus cells!
October 2020 The lab got together at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for a socially distanced catch-up.
July 2020: Michelle defended, congrats Dr. Frank!
March 2020: Busola passed her Preliminary Qualification Exam (PQE) in PiN! Woohoo!!
March 2020: Congratulations on your acceptance to graduate school, Evan!
February 2020: We are excited to welcome Taylor to the lab!
June 5, 2019: Yay! Busola is joining the lab as a graduate student.
June 3, 2019: Lauren starts working with us today as a post-doctoral fellow, we hope you brought some warm clothes from UT-Austin! ​
Apr 15, 2019: Welcome our new graduate student, Isle!
Mar 28, 2019: We're happy to have Busola rotating in our lab.
Mar 22, 2019: Congratulations on a great thesis defense Chester!
Aug 23, 2018: A hearty congratulations to Brikha, Chester and Lorna on publication of their exciting work on spiral ganglion neuron heterogeneity.