NEWS

Jan 29 2024 . Welcome Lara! Lara is a physician scientist and did her MD/PhD at Columbia with Steven Siegelbaum. 

Dec 26 2023 . Ashley’s paper on autism, sleep and memory is up on biorxiv!

Dec 20 2023 . John’s paper is published in eLife!

Dec 15 2023 . Congrats to Dr. Maurer for defending his thesis!

Dec 13 2023 . Our paper on stress and sleep is published in Current Biology and featured on Nature, Current Biology and Penn News. 

July 11 2023. Alyssa’s editorial on recent paper about sleep biomarkers for depression is published in Sleep!

May 3 2023 . Hanna receives a grant from the academy of Finland. Congrats to Hanna for paving the path to become a PI in Finland!

April 26 2023 . John and Ashley’s review on autism and sleep is published!

Mar 27 2023 . Welcome Bowon! Bowon joins our lab as a postdoctoral fellow!

Jan 1 2023 . Joe joins Chung Weber labs as a graduate student! Welcome Joe!

Oct 6 2022 . John received the John S. O’Brien award! Congrats!

Aug 19 2022. Hanna’s paper is accepted to PNAS!

May 10 2022 . Alyssa is awarded with NRSA F31! Congrats Alyssa!

April 6 2022 . Ashley and Jenny presented their work at the MINS symposium. Jenny won the best poster award!

April 1 2022 . Congrats Adam, Syraj and Isabella for receiving summer fellowships!  Adam is awarded with MindCore fellowship and Syraj and Isabella are awarded with PURM fellowships!

Mar 13 2022 . We traveled to Tuscany to present our work at the sleep gordon conference and saw the leaning tower in Pisa!

Jan 1 2022 . Welcome Syraj, Isabella, Nick and Maya, our new undergraduate students!

Aug 2021 . Congrats to John on receiving NRSA award!  His project is titled “Neuronal and homeostatic regulation of sleep by the preoptic area and tuberomammillary nucleus”

July 14 2021 . Congrats to Jenny for winning the best poster award at SFN Philly!

July 1 2021 . Our new review on sleep and thermoregulation is out!

June 25 2021 . Good bye to Sungho! Good luck in Korea!

June 2021 . Summer is here, and our new summer students are starting in our labs. Welcome Sarah and Adam! Welcome back Alex!

May 2021 . Our garage party is back after everyone is vaccinated! Good bye to Alexa, who will apply for medical school! Good bye to Stephanie, who starts as a hillman scholar BSN-PhD program at Penn!

Jan 2021 . Congrats to Joe for being accepted to NGG Penn!

Aug 24 2020 . Welcome Ashley! Ashley graduated from Duke and joins our lab as a research specialist.

Aug 17 2020 . Welcome Jenny! Jenny graduated from UNC and joins our lab as a research specialist.

July 1 2020 . Good bye Ivan. Ivan was the second undergraduate student in our lab, and stayed as a research specialist after graduation. He will start his medical school at Penn. Good luck Ivan!

May 31 2020 . Good bye Iris. Iris was the first undergraduate student in our lab. She stayed on as a postbac student, and then a research specialist. Good luck at the NYMC!

May 21 2020 . Alyssa passes her qualifying exam!

Apr 23 2020 . Welcome Rebecca! Rebecca from NGG joins our lab for her PhD thesis!

Jan 28 2020 . We received a new grant from the Eagles Autism Foundation.

Jan 15 2020 . Welcome Rebecca! Rebecca Rothhaas from NGG joins the lab for a rotation.

Jan 15 2020 . Alexandra Lin joins our lab as an undergraduate student researcher.  Welcome Alexandra!

July 17 2019 . Welcome Alyssa! Alyssa joins the lab from Penn PGG.

June 17 2019 . Alyssa was selected to receive support from the Pharmacology T32 Predoctoral Training Grant! Congratulations!

May 1 2019 . Justin, Iris, Joe and Sungho presented their work at SFN Philly!

Apr 22 2019 . John passed his preliminary exam!

Apr 15 2019 . Alyssa joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Alyssa!

Apr 1 2019 . We received a new R01 from NINDS.

Aug 16 2018 . Welcome John! John joins the lab as the first graduate student from Penn PGG program.

Aug 7 2018 . Shinjae receives a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant.

Aug 6 2018 . Justin gave a fantastic talk at the Small Circuit Meeting!

June 15 2018 . The lab is awarded with a new grant from the Simons Foundation!

May 28 2018 . Min Kyung joins the lab for summer. She is a Schupf Scholar at Amherst college. Welcome Min Kyung!

May 15 2018 . The lab receives a Whitehall Foundation Grant!

April 13 2018 .  Congrats to Ivan for receiving a CURF Fellowship!

April 1 2018 . Shinjae receives a Hartwell Biomedical Research Award. Penn news.

The lab is one year old today! Our pizza dinner with the Weber lab

March 12 2018 . Hanna joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Hanna received her Ph.D. from University of Helsinki and is a Sigrid Juselius Fellow. Welcome Hanna!

Feb 15 2018 . Shinjae is named 2018 Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience! Penn news 

Jan 17 2018 . Ivan joins the lab as an undergraduate student researcher. Ivan is a junior at Penn majoring in Biological Basis of Behavior. Welcome Ivan!

Jan 15 2018 .  Congratulations to Hanna on receiving a postdoctoral fellowship from Sigrid Jusélius Foundation to study sleep. She will join the lab on March.

Jan 15 2018 . Leah joins the lab for a rotation. Leah graduated from Mount Holyoke College MA and was a Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow at NIH. Welcome Leah!

Jan 4 2018 . Emma joins the lab for a rotation. Emma graduated from UT Austin TX and was a Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow at NIA. Welcome Emma!

Oct 23 2017 . Chuljung joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Chuljung received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University, Korea. Welcome Chuljung!

Aug 29 2017 . Iris joins the lab for undergraduate independent study. Iris is a senior at Penn majoring in Biological Basis of Behavior. Welcome Iris!

Jul 21 2017 . Justin arrives from Berkeley CA and joins the lab as a research specialist. Justin graduated from UC Berkeley CA. Welcome Justin!

Apr 1 2017 . Chung lab is open!