News
November 15, 2019: Congratulations to Emma Boxer for winning "Best Poster at the Neuroscience program retreat" for her interrogation of microcircuitry as voted on by students and faculty! JungMin Kim also gave a wonderful talk and poster on her collaborative work investigating vSub-NAc projection circuitry.
October 2, 2019: Susy's paper is officially out in J. Neuro!
August 2019: Dean Kareemo starts his first rotation in the lab. Welcome, Dean!
August 2019: Brian Lloyd officially joins the laboratory! Welcome!
May 2019: JungMin Kim officially joins the laboratory! Welcome!
April 29, 2019: Brian Lloyd (MSTP) begins his summer rotation. Welcome, Brian!
March 3, 2019: Emma Boxer's collaborative work with Dr. Matthew Kennedy's lab that characterizes a novel light-activated split botulinum toxin is in print at Neuron!
February 19, 2019: JungMin's successful post-rotation talk caps a very productive second rotation.
February 6, 2019: Susy's poster characterizing a mutation in neurexin-3 that is linked to epilepsy and profound intellectual disability was awarded second place at the 2019 Winter Conference on Brain Research.
December 10, 2018: Susy's was awarded a Yale Ciencias predoctoral fellowship. Congratulations, Susy!
November 11, 2018: JungMin Kim starts her second rotation in the lab. Welcome, JungMin!
October 23, 2018: A paper in collaboration with Dr. Mark Dell'Acqua's lab in Cell Reports is published!
October 12, 2018: Susy received the "best student seminar" award for her talk characterizing the functional impact of a disease-relevant point mutation in neurexin-3 at the Department of Pharmacology Research Symposium!
October 4, 2018: Emma Boxer passed her comprehensive examination and is now a bonafied PhD candidate!
July 26, 2018: Susy Restrepo passed her comprehensive examination and is now an official PhD candidate!!! Well done, Susy.
July 1, 2018: Nora Langer joins the Aoto lab as the new PRA! Welcome, Nora!
June 29, 2018: Kylan's last day in the lab! Thanks for helping to get the lab running and for all the technical support - you were indispensable! Good luck!
June 14, 2018: Susy is awarded a prestigious Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from HHMI!
June 1, 2018: R01 from NIMH awarded!
February 20, 2018: Ellen Ford finishes her Winter 2017-2018 rotation with a nice end of rotation talk.
November 17, 2017: Hannah Actor-Engel ends her productive rotation with a bang. Excellent end of rotation talk! Ellen Ford begins her Winter rotation. Welcome, Ellen!
August 21, 2017: Hannah Actor-Engel starts her Fall 2017 rotation. Welcome, Hannah!
June 28, 2017: Brett Dunn successfully defended his Masters thesis! Congratulations!
May 22, 2017: Susy Restrepo and Emma Boxer have officially decided to join the Aoto lab to carry out their PhD's! Welcome back, Susy and Emma!
May 16, 2017: Emma Boxer ends her productive third rotation in which she identified some completely unexpected disease-relevant phentoypes!
March 27, 2017: Susy Restrepo ends her productive second rotation and Emma Boxer begins her third rotation. Welcome, Emma!
January 17, 2017: Jun Wang starts her postdoc in the Aoto Lab. Welcome, Jun!
November 22, 2016: Joshua Garcia ends his very productive first rotation (Fall) and Susy Restrepo begins her second rotation (Winter). Welcome, Susy!
August 29, 2016: Joshua Garcia begins his Fall 2016 rotation. Welcome, Josh!
August 8, 2016: Jason receives notice of a Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD) Young Investigator Award.
July 15, 2016: Kylan Nelson starts her PRA position.
July 10, 2016: Brett Dunn officially joins the lab.
April 25, 2016: Brett Dunn begins his rotation. Welcome, Brett!
February 24, 2016: The R00 portion of the K99/R00 has been awarded to Jason Aoto.
January 15, 2016: The Aoto Laboratory opens! We are located on the 6th floor of RC-1N.