2024
04/2024 - Lauren from the Neuroscience program joins the lab. Welcome Lauren!
04/2024 - Nisan from the Neuroscience program joins the lab. Welcome Nisan!
04/2024 - Fikri’s postdoc work on developing genetic therapeautics for Timothy Syndrome is out as the cover article at Nature!
04/2024 - Gianna from the Neuroscience program joins the lab. Welcome Gianna!
03/2024 - Our lab receives seed funding from the Biological Discovery through Chemical Innovation (BDCI) initiative! With its support, we will aim to develop and use genetically encoded tension sensors (developed by Salaita lab, Chemistry) to study neuronal migration mechanobiology.
03/2024 - Arvin gets accepted to a summer internship at Genetech! 🎉
02/2024 - Our lab receives the NIH Stephen I. Katz ESI RO1 towards implementing novel genomics & imaging tech to study human neural specification! 🎉
02/2024 - Lauren from the Neuroscience program starts her spring rotation in the lab!

2023
12/2023 - Gianna from the Neuroscience program starts her winter rotation in the lab!
09/2023 - Nisan from the Neuroscience program starts her fall rotation in the lab!
09/2023 - We welcome four fantastic undergraduate researchers to the lab for the fall semeters: Welcome Tanisha, Poppy, Simren and William!
07/2023 - Roy joins the lab. Welcome Roy!
04/2023 - Roy from the Neuroscience program starts his summer rotation in the lab. Welcome Roy!
04/2023 - Kaori joins the lab as a Staff Scientist. Welcome Kaori!
04/2023 - The lab receives funding from Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) to study convergence of autism risk using assembloid models! 🎉
03/2023 - Abigail from the Neuroscience Program starts her rotation in the lab!
02/2023 - Junsung from Emory joins us as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Junsung!
01/2023 - Samme from Emory joins us as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Samme!

2022
10/2022 - Fikri presents at the UTSA Neuroscience Symposium.
09/2022 - Nardos and Shirley from the Neuroscience program start their Fall rotations in the lab!
08/2022 - Suhaas from Georgia Tech joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher! Welcome Suhaas!
08/2022 - Carol joins us as our Lead Research Specialist/Lab Manager! Welcome Carol!
08/2022 - Arvin officially joins the lab as our first PhD student! Welcome aboard Arvin!
06/2022 - Our detailed protocols for imaging migration and network activity in assembloids is out in STAR Protocols.
06/2022 - Arvin from the Neuroscience Program starts his summer rotation in the lab!
02/2022 - Birey lab is open for business! 𑁍
01/2022 - Our study on the molecular drivers of migration defects in Timothy Syndrome is out in Cell Stem Cell.