September 3, 2024
The Butler lab welcomes Talin and Yehir – our 11th year of CIRM Bridges students!...... Read More
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August 12, 2024
Cris gave a poster presentation “Developing an in vitro stem cell-based model for investigating spinal cord development and regenerative therapies...... Read More
July 30, 2024
We have received generous support from The Marcus Foundation, giving my lab the opportunity to develop our stem cell protocols...... Read More
July 28, 2024
The Butler lab – past and present – had a great showing at the Neural Development GRC (in Tuscany!). A....... Read More
July 8, 2024
Yesica is the 2024 recipient of the Eva Kavan Prize for Excellence in Research on the Brain from the Brain...... Read More
July 5, 2024
Butler/Novitch lab dinner to celebrate the publication of Sandeep and Eric’s paper ! ...... Read More
June 18, 2024
Cris gave a poster presentation at “Developing an in vitro stem cell-based model for investigating spinal cord development and regenerative...... Read More
May 17, 2024
Sandeep gave a short talk “Stem Cell Models to Investigate the Formation of Somatosensory Circuits and Sensory Disorders” and Yesica...... Read More
April 30, 2024
Yesica spoke at the 2024 Avian Research Symposium, and was the winner of the Best Short Talk – PhD Student....... Read More
April 24, 2024
Yesica has been awarded the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship to attend the Neural Development Gordon Conference in Tuscany...... Read More
April 5, 2024
Cris gave a short talk at both the CSUNposium and the West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research conference (WCBSURC)....... Read More
April 1, 2024
Antonella has joined us from the Biomedical Research Minor. Welcome Antonella!...... Read More
February 22, 2024
Salena has been awarded the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship to attend the Neural Development Gordon Conference in Tuscany...... Read More
February 14, 2024
Yesica presents her work in the MBIDP seminar series....... Read More
December 9, 2023
There were THREE (almost) identical popcorn makers in the gift exchange....... Read More
November 9, 2023
Samantha gave a talk “Developing directed differentiation protocols for spinal sensory interneurons” at the 2023 preSfN Motor Symposium. And had...... Read More
November 4, 2023
Sandy’s paper is on bioRxiv! Alvarez S., Gupta S., Honeychurch K., Mercardo-Ayon, Y. Kawaguchi, R. and Butler S.J. (2023). Netrin1...... Read More
November 1, 2023
Salena presents her work in the MBIDP seminar series....... Read More
October 31, 2023
Terrifying costumes from (top L – R) Ben, Cristian, Salena, Cendy, Eric, Natalia, Negien, Sandeep, (bottom L – R) Soizic,...... Read More
October 10, 2023
Sandy successfully defended her thesis “Netrin1 in Spinal Cord Development: More Than an Axon Guidance Molecule” Congratulations Dr Alvarez!...... Read More
September 20, 2023
The Butler laboratory hosted the Department of Neurobiology CommuniTEA, where we test the hypothesis that the snacks from every culture...... Read More
September 1, 2023
Cristian is our 2023-24 CIRM Bridges student, welcome Cristian!...... Read More
August 26, 2023
Sandeep gave a very well received talk at the West Coast SDB meeting on “Stem cell models of the dorsal...... Read More
August 23, 2023
We said goodbye to Piunik and Gaby at a pizza lunch! We will miss you – thanks for all your...... Read More
July 26, 2023
Sandeep and Erics’ paper is on bioRxiv! Gupta S., Heinrichs, E., Novitch, B.G. and Butler S.J. (2023). Investigating the basis...... Read More
July 24, 2023
Sandy wins a honorable mention for her poster at SDB!...... Read More
July 20, 2023
Samantha, Sandeep, Sandy and Yesica attended the 82nd annual SDB meeting in Chicago. Sandeep got a poster teaser talk! ...... Read More
June 21, 2023
Staff Assembly Recognition Awards and Scholarships Faculty/Staff Partnership Award honors a faculty member who has demonstrated the value of collaboration...... Read More
June 20, 2023
Chélyn Love-Johnson is our BRI-Sure summer student. Welcome Chélyn!...... Read More
June 14, 2023
Samantha, Salena, Pionik and Gaby attended the 2023 ISSCR meeting in Boston. We met up with Madeline!...... Read More
June 5, 2023
Salena is awarded a second year’s fellowship on the T32 Genomic Analysis Training Program Congratulations Salena!...... Read More
May 25, 2023
The Butler lab smashed it in the BSCRC picture contest. Soizic won FIRST prize, and both Yesica and Piunik both...... Read More
May 19, 2023
Sup will join UT Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this Fall. Congratulations, Sup!...... Read More
May 5, 2023
Gaby wins 3rd place in the CSUN CIRM Bridges undergraduate research symposium. Congratulations Gaby!...... Read More
April 18, 2023
The next Cytoskeleton Supergroup talk will be next Tuesday, April 18, at 4 pm in Boyer 130. The talk will be given by Soizic...... Read More
April 7, 2023
The Butler lab (and Neurobiology department) attends the DGSOM Holi event. ...... Read More
February 27, 2023
The Butler and Novitch labs have a new lab dog, Matilda! She loves meeting new people!...... Read More
February 10, 2023
The Butler and Novitch labs celebrate International Women’s Day in Science by having lunch with the labs on the 6th...... Read More
December 15, 2022
The Butler lab had two images chosen for the 2023 BRI calendar, the ninth year in a row we’ve been...... Read More
October 31, 2022
Great costumes from Cendi, Soizic, Seant, Eric, Sandeep and Yesica! ...... Read More
September 29, 2022
Sandeep is giving Neural Repair, noon, 30th Sept, Gonda 1357....... Read More
September 15, 2022
Samantha will be a co-organizer of the “Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity” for the 2024 and 2026 meeting with Daniel...... Read More
September 13, 2022
Samantha, Soizic and Yesica attended the “Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity” at CSHL meeting, where we met up with Sup!...... Read More
September 7, 2022
Samantha is so honoured to have won the UCLA MBI 2022 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award in recognition of outstanding...... Read More
September 1, 2022
Gabriela and Pionik are our new 2022-23 CIRM Bridges students, welcome Gabriela and Pionik!...... Read More
August 10, 2022
Samantha gives a talk – “The role of the BMPs specifying dorsal spinal neural cell fate” – at the “Neural Development”...... Read More
August 2, 2022
Sandeep’s image is chosen by Nature as one of July’s best science images. Check all the images out here....... Read More
July 26, 2022
Samantha and Sandeep win a new UCLA BSCRC Research Award for their proposal “Developing iPSC-based models to investigate the basis...... Read More
July 25, 2022
Sandeep’s paper has been reviewed in Faculty Opinions by Lynda Erskine: “the protocols described, in combination with the careful characterisation...... Read More
July 19, 2022
Our latest paper “In vitro atlas of dorsal spinal interneurons reveals Wnt signaling as a critical regulator of progenitor expansion”...... Read More
June 17, 2022
The Butler lab attending the ISSCR meeting in San Francisco. Both Sandeep and David presented posters; we attended the ISSCR...... Read More
June 10, 2022
Butler/Novitch lab lunch at Emporium Thai to celebrate all the good news in the Butler lab....... Read More
May 26, 2022
Samantha pitched to industry investors as a LABEST 2022 Spotlight PI....... Read More
May 2, 2022
Samantha gave her first in person seminar in several years at UNC: “New lessons from netrin1 signaling: unexpected mechanisms and...... Read More
April 29, 2022
The Butler lab has a new R01 to study the mechanisms directing cell fate in the spinal cord....... Read More
March 15, 2022
Congratulations Salena!...... Read More
December 12, 2021
Butler/Novitch lunch holiday party! Back in person!...... Read More
November 15, 2021
The Butler lab has had an image of Sandeep’s accepted for the 2022 BRI calendar; we are now eight years in...... Read More
October 31, 2021
Yesica painted the perfect Hallowe’en pumpkin for the Butler lab!...... Read More
October 29, 2021
Great turn out from the Butler and Novitch labs to hear Megan Williams in person in the Neural Repair seminar...... Read More
October 27, 2021
The BRI had an In-N-Out party to welcome neuroscientists back onto campus....... Read More
October 7, 2021
Read Samantha’s personal essay on the importance of questions here....... Read More
October 1, 2021
First in person talk from the Butler lab in two years!...... Read More
September 30, 2021
Welcome Marcos! So happy to have new undergraduates back in the lab!...... Read More
September 29, 2021
From a pool of ~400 applicants, Sandeep is named as an Intersections Science Fellows Symposium (ISFS) Associate for the November...... Read More
September 1, 2021
David Bursalyan is our 2021-22 CIRM Bridges student, welcome David!...... Read More
May 10, 2021
The lab had a surprise In ‘n’ Out picnic to celebrate Salena’s engagement....... Read More
May 10, 2021
Madeline will join ASU as an Assistant Professor this Fall. Congratulations, Madeline!...... Read More
April 1, 2021
The Butler lab had a socially distanced picnic to celebrate vaccinations and 50% density in the lab. Coco came too!...... Read More
March 19, 2021
Learn to make human spinal dorsal interneurons! Our new protocol “Derivation of dorsal spinal sensory interneurons from human pluripotent stem...... Read More
February 25, 2021
Our new review “Getting in touch with your senses: mechanisms specifying sensory interneurons in the dorsal spinal cord” assesses the contribution...... Read More
November 27, 2020
Sandy’s beautiful image – “Figures huddling under a starry night” – has been chosen for the 2021 BRI calendar. Congratulations...... Read More
November 19, 2020
Our latest review “Dorsal commissural axon guidance in the developing spinal cord” assesses the contribution of long and short range...... Read More
September 24, 2020
Sandeep is interviewed by Thermo Fisher Scientific as part of their Scientific Trailblazers series, talking about his work on stem cell...... Read More
July 9, 2020
Sandy is one of the 2020-21 Whitcome fellows! Congratuations Sandy!...... Read More
June 12, 2020
Sandeep has been reappointed as a postdoctoral fellow in the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell...... Read More
April 30, 2020
Sandy speaks in the California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) Biology Seminar Series. “Investigating the mechanisms underlying netrin1-mediated axon guidance in the developing...... Read More
March 4, 2020
Soizic won the third prize in the 2019 UCLA microscopy and video contest! Congratulations Soizic! Press release: here...... Read More
February 7, 2020
Sandeep and Stephanie presented posters. Soizic’s image made it to the final of the 2019 UCLA microscopt image and video...... Read More
January 19, 2020
UCLA and the Weizmann Institute of Science held a joint symposium on on “Brain Health: Molecules, Mechanisms and Disease”....... Read More
December 14, 2019
Happy Holidays from the Butler and Novitch laboratories....... Read More
December 10, 2019
Sandy has been awarded grant from the Jessamine K. Hilliard Neurobiology Graduate Student Program at UCLA. Congratulations Sandy!...... Read More
December 1, 2019
Kaity and Sandeep are the faces of the BSCRC 2019 holiday card!...... Read More
November 20, 2019
Michele’s paper was the cover article in today’s in J Neuroscience. Congratulations everyone!...... Read More
November 13, 2019
Michele’s paper made it to the “most-discussed” list for articles published in the October issues of J Neuroscience: https://jneurosci.altmetric.com/details/67583579...... Read More
October 2, 2019
Our paper: “The cofilin/Limk1 pathway controls the growth rate of both developing and regenerating motor axons” is has been published...... Read More
September 12, 2019
Our review with the Kaltschmidt lab, “Commissural axon guidance in the developing spinal cord: from Cajal to the present day”...... Read More
September 11, 2019
Samantha gave a talk at AXON 2019, in Alicante, Spain (and met up with old friends). ...... Read More
August 28, 2019
It was a pleasure having you in the lab, Jessica – good luck in your final year at Bryn Mawr!...... Read More
June 30, 2019
Kaity: Good luck in medical school at UC Davis! Brian: Good luck in the rest of your studies! Ozzy: Good...... Read More
June 28, 2019
Sandeep and Brian presented posters, and we had dinner with the Novitch and Parent labs at El Cholo....... Read More
June 24, 2019
Jessica Kahng is in the Butler lab for the summer as part of the UCLA Amgen Scholars Program. Welcome Jessica!...... Read More
June 14, 2019
Sandy has been reappointed for a second year on the Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) Training Grant. Congratulations, Sandy!...... Read More
June 11, 2019
Sandeep has been reappointed as a postdoctoral fellow in the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell...... Read More
June 4, 2019
Check out Sandeep’s video here....... Read More
June 4, 2019
The Butler lab has received new R01 funding to persue our netrin1 studies....... Read More
May 29, 2019
Andyshea gave a poster on his research at the Neuroscience Poster Day....... Read More
May 23, 2019
Sandeep was interviewed by ThermoFisher as part of their Scientific Trailblazer series....... Read More
May 23, 2019
Sandeep gave a poster at the UCLA Bioscience Innovation Day on his studies developing directed differentiation protocols for dorsal spinal...... Read More
May 22, 2019
Armo presented a poster on Research Poster Day!...... Read More
May 17, 2019
Kaity will be a member of the 2020 medical school class at UC Davis! Congratulations Kaity!...... Read More
May 16, 2019
Samantha has been named as one of the 2019 Ablon Scholars....... Read More
May 9, 2019
Samantha has been appointed as the new Eleanor Leslie Chair in Pioneering Brain Research....... Read More
May 7, 2019
Sandy was awarded a scholarship as part of the Cal State Chancellor Doctoral Incentive Program. Congratulations Sandy!...... Read More
April 10, 2019
Armo gave a poster on his research at the 2019 National Conference of Undergraduate Research at Kennesaw State University....... Read More
April 6, 2019
Brian gave a talk on his research at the West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research conference at the University of...... Read More
March 18, 2019
Samantha attends a celebration lunch for Rose Hill fellows and trainees....... Read More
February 27, 2019
Lunch at CPK to celebrate recent good news in the Butler lab....... Read More
February 23, 2019
The first (annual?) Butler vs Novitch lab basketball game resulted in a resounding Butler win!...... Read More
February 2, 2019
Samantha spoke, Sandeep and Brian gave posters!...... Read More
December 26, 2018
Madeline’s review “New perspectives on the mechanisms establishing the dorsal-ventral axis of the spinal cord” has been published online here....... Read More
December 8, 2018
Ben toasts the successful move of the Butler and Novitch labs into the South Tower....... Read More
September 29, 2018
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August 10, 2018
Armo has been selected as an Undergraduate Research Scholar for the 2018-2019 academic year. Congratulations Armo!...... Read More
June 26, 2018
Images from the Butler lab are featured on the 12 screen display at the entrance of CHS....... Read More
June 16, 2018
Kaity won the MCDB outstanding scientific poster presentation award. MANY congratulations Kaity!...... Read More
June 16, 2018
Lorenzo and Neda: Good luck in graduate school! Christian: Good luck in the rest of your studies!...... Read More
June 15, 2018
The Butler laboratory has been awarded a 2018-19 BSCRC Innovation Award. ...... Read More
June 14, 2018
Sandy has won a place on the Cellular and Molecular Biology Training Grant! Congratulations Sandy!...... Read More
June 11, 2018
Sandeep was selected for a BSCRC Training Program Postdoctoral Fellowship Congratulations Sandeep!...... Read More
May 25, 2018
Kaity was awarded a Dean’s Prize at Research Poster Day 2018. Congratulations! [The competion was really fierce.]...... Read More
May 23, 2018
Diane was selected for a Whitcome Summer Research Fellowship. Congratulations Diane!...... Read More
May 22, 2018
Kaity presents her senior thesis work at Poster Day during Undergraduate Research Week....... Read More
May 11, 2018
Butler and Novitch labs attend UCLA night at Dodger stadium!...... Read More
April 18, 2018
Read about our recent findings on the mechanisms by which BMPs pattern the spinal cord, and how we leveraged this...... Read More
March 17, 2018
Lorenzo del Castillo accepts a position as a graduate student in the UCSF TETRAD program! Congratulations Lorenzo!...... Read More
February 6, 2018
The Daily Bruin features Sandeep and Lorenzos’ work on the development of mouse and human protocols to make stem cell-derived...... Read More
February 2, 2018
Sandeep and Christian presented posters at the BSCRC 14th Annual Stem Cell Symposium. ...... Read More
January 18, 2018
Our recent Stem Cell Reports paper is covered by Digital Trends...... Read More
January 11, 2018
Our Stem Cell Reports paper using BMP signaling to direct human pluripotent stem cells towards dorsal spinal interneurons has been...... Read More
January 11, 2018
Celebrating the new papers in the Butler and Novitch labs!...... Read More
October 3, 2017
The Butler lab receives seed funding from the Merkin Foundation for “Peripheral Nerve Therapeutics”....... Read More
September 19, 2017
Madeline’s paper comes out in eLife today. The paper is here. The press release is here....... Read More
August 30, 2017
Good luck in your postdoc at USCF, Madeline!...... Read More
August 24, 2017
Madeline’s paper: “BMPs direct sensory interneuron identity in the developing spinal cord using signal-specific not morphogenic activities” has been accepted...... Read More
August 23, 2017
Kaity is selected for an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for the 2017-2018 academic year. Congratulations Kaity!...... Read More
July 31, 2017
Armo is selected for the Lawrence Kruger Undergraduate Research Scholarship award. Congratulations Armo!...... Read More
July 24, 2017
Sammie was picked as a CIRM finalist at the 2017 CIRM Bridges Trainee meeting in Coronado. Congratulations Sammmie!...... Read More
July 17, 2017
The Butler lab wins “Honorable Mention” in the BSCRC photo/video contest!...... Read More
July 13, 2017
Sup is picked as UCLA’s nominee for the 2017-18 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Biological Sciences. Congratulations Sup!...... Read More
June 17, 2017
Ali: Good luck in medical school at Northstate! Sup: Good luck in your postdoc at Stanford!...... Read More
June 14, 2017
Sandeep and Sammie presented posters at the ISSCR annual meeting in Boston....... Read More
June 13, 2017
Samantha was selected for a BSCRC-Rose Hills Foundation award for researching “Mechanisms of axonal growth promotion by neural stem cells...... Read More
May 26, 2017
Sup’s Neuron paper is given a “very good” rating on F1000: https://f1000.com/prime/727537065 Paola Bovolenta writes: “.. the results provide a novel...... Read More
May 24, 2017
Ginger Hazen was named one of the 2016-17 exemplary employees of the year at UCSD! Check out a video about...... Read More
May 16, 2017
Read about the history behind our rethinking of the role of netrin1 in the spinal cord in The Node: The...... Read More
May 12, 2017
Sup’s Neuron paper is given an “exceptional” rating on F1000: https://f1000.com/prime/727537065 Geoffery Goodhill and Brendan Bicknell write: “Netrin-1 was the...... Read More
May 1, 2017
Sup successfully defends her thesis! Congratulations!...... Read More
April 20, 2017
Sup’s paper comes out in Neuron today. The paper is here. The press release is here....... Read More
April 7, 2017
Sammie wins second place at the CSUN’s Annual Student Research & Creative Works Symposium. Congratulations Sammie!...... Read More
March 29, 2017
Sup will be going to the Huberman lab at Stanford – congratulations Sup!...... Read More
March 13, 2017
Madeline will be going to the Kriegstein lab at UCSF – congratulations Madeline!...... Read More
March 5, 2017
Dan Sivalingam accepts his dream job at Kite Pharma. He’ll be taking his pluripotent stem cell and protocol building experience to Kite...... Read More
February 14, 2017
Supraja has been awarded the Eiduson prize! Congratulations Sup! The Eiduson Award was initiated in 1993, and named in honor of Dr. Sam...... Read More
February 3, 2017
Sandeep and Sammie presented posters at the 12th Annual UCLA BSCRC stem cell symposium! ...... Read More
November 14, 2016
Madeline and Supraja presenting their work, followed by drinks on Zeiss....... Read More
October 30, 2016
Eliana is interviewed about her work in the Butler lab, after CSUN successfully renewed its CIRM Bridges to Stem Cell...... Read More
July 1, 2016
Lorenzo receives a “Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research” for post-baccalaurate research in the lab. Congratulations Lorenzo!...... Read More
June 28, 2016
Supraja has been awarded a BRI/Semel Institute Neuroscience Graduate Travel Award to attend the 2016 SfN meeting. Congratulations Sup!...... Read More
June 23, 2016
Congratulations Madeline!...... Read More
June 8, 2016
Supraja has been selected for an International Scholarship Award from the Alpha Association of the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in...... Read More
June 3, 2016
Congratulations Sup!...... Read More
May 25, 2016
Samantha and Madeline record elevator piches for our regeneration and stem cell work....... Read More
February 23, 2016
Eliana wins first place in her session of the CSUN 20th Annual Student Research & Creative Works Symposium. Congratulations!...... Read More
November 1, 2015
We receive NIH funding for the IDDRC Structural and Functional Visualization Core....... Read More
September 1, 2015
Congratulations Madeline!...... Read More
February 15, 2015
Review on lineage tracing in the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system published in Developmental Biology...... Read More
December 1, 2014
Dispatch on nucleogenesis in the hindbrain published in Current Biology....... Read More
July 3, 2014
Our R01 “Diverse roles of the Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in the developing spinal cord” has been funded....... Read More
May 2, 2014
The Butler and Novitch labs celebrate over lunch at El Cholo. Congratulations Dr. Frendo!...... Read More
January 29, 2014
The Butler lab is one of five labs at UCLA to recieve a CIRM Basic Biology V award. Samantha was...... Read More
January 15, 2014
The UCLA Restorative Transplant Research Collaborative (led by Dr. Kodi Azari, with Drs. Samantha Butler, Gay Crooks, Don Kohn and...... Read More
October 1, 2013
We will be assessing whether accelerating the regeneration of peripheral nerves results in the improved recovery of motor and/or sensory...... Read More