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Konopka Lab@KonopkaLab
16 Jul 2025
Big news—we’ve moved to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA! Even bigger: Gena is now Chair of the Department of Neurobiology. Congrats, Dr. Konopka! 💙🧠 #UCLA #Neurobiology #NewBeginnings
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Congrats to Madelynne Wells and Rena Li for presenting their work at the UCLA BSCRC End of Year Core Resource Event 2026! 🎉 Proud to see your hard work and research contributions showcased—great job representing the lab and sharing your science with the broader UCLA community.
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And a special shoutout to Eric Huan and Kimberly Wei for representing the lab at UCLA's Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase during Undergraduate Research Week! Congrats, guys!! 🎉🙌 youtube.com/watch?v=MrAGhZsc… youtube.com/watch?v=YB7VvQaz…

Neuroscience: Prerecorded presentation - Panel 1 - Presentation 8

This presentation is the work of a UCLA undergraduate student.Plea...

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Yuxiang Liu@Brain_EvoDevo
30 Jun 2025
Finally, it is out. Many thanks to my two mentors Gena Konopka and Joe Takahashi @CircadianClocks, as well as all the lab members @KonopkaLab
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30 Jun 2025
Human-like expression of the CLOCK gene in mouse neocortex enhances cognitive flexibility and neural connectivity, suggesting an evolutionary gain of function @Brain_EvoDevo @KonopkaLab @CircadianClocks nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
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Nature Neuroscience
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30 Jun 2025
Human-like expression of the CLOCK gene in mouse neocortex enhances cognitive flexibility and neural connectivity, suggesting an evolutionary gain of function @Brain_EvoDevo @KonopkaLab @CircadianClocks nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
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We celebrated Haley graduating from the Neuroscience Ph.D. program at UT Southwestern. Huge congrats, Dr. Moore! 🎉🎓
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We are super excited to share our latest pre-print in collaboration with @Sonja_Vernes Lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… : Evolution of the cellular landscape in mammalian striatum 🧠🧬🧵

Evolution of the cellular landscape in mammalian striatum

The dorsal striatum is important for highly specialized functions including movement, learning, and habit formation. However, it is not known if species-specialized behaviors are associated with...

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7/ Takeaways: 🧠Our findings underscore the importance of including a diverse array of species and brain regions when uncovering novel cell types and examining cellular abundance variations which may lead to species-specific behaviors.
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8/ 🧪Combining snRNA-seq smFISH cross-species comparisons cross region comparisons = powerful insights into mammalian striatum evolution. 🧵Thanks for reading!
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❄️☃️ Our spooky snowman is ready to haunt the holidays and bring some 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 cheer to the Lab Door Decorating Contest! A big thank you to everyone who helped bring this eerie creation to life – your creativity truly shines! 🎄👻 #SnowmanDecor @UTSWNeurosci
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