News – The Butler Laboratory

New paper in Cell Reports!

Sandy’s thesis work has been published in Cell Reports, showing more evidence that netrin1 has boundary activity, in this case compartmentalizing the developing spinal cord by limiting Bmp signaling.

The Cell Reports paper is here, the UCLA press release is here.

Samantha gives a talk at U Mass Chan Medical School

Samantha visits the Department of Neurobiology at U Mass Chan Medical School, to talk on “Revisiting the role(s) of netrin1 in the establishment of spinal cord circuitry”.

Samantha gives a talk at UCI

Samantha visits the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology at UCI, to talk on “Revisiting the role(s) of netrin1 in the establishment of spinal cord circuitry”.

The Butler/Novitch labs celebrate Hallowe’en 2024!

Hallowe’en 2024 in the Butler and Novitch labs – we have (top row) witches, Wednesdays, Pharaoh, Chainsaw Man, Jason, DMEM (medium) and a cryopack; (bottom row), pumpkin, mice, Doug (from Up) and Morton salt. Matilda came as a bat.

Mydia won for “Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Mydia”, with second place to Cris’s cryopak and Charlene’s beautiful hand-crocheted Morton salt sweater.

Sandeep gives the IDDRC seminar

Sandeep talks on “Stem-Cell Derived Sensory Neurons for Therapy and Disease Modeling”

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Sandy’s thesis work is accepted at Cell Reports!

New publication alert:

Alvarez, S., Gupta S., Mercado-Ayon Y., Honeychurch. K., Rodriguez, C., Kawaguchi R. and S. J. Butler (2024). Netrin1 patterns the dorsal spinal cord through modulation of Bmp signaling, Cell Reports, accepted

Rachel is accepted into Questbridge!

Rachel was accepted into the Questbridge National College Match, which allows high school students to be considered for early admission and a full four-year scholarship at over 50 top colleges.

Congratulations Rachel!