2025 Lab Annual DataBlitz (presented by research interns and undergraduate students), followed by a celebration at the Terrace!
2025 Lab Summer Picnic at Devil’s Lake.
2024: Winter Lab White Elephant Social
2024. Midwest Fragile X Research Exchange (Oct 4) and SFN (Oct 5-9) in Chicago
2024: July: Another successful Annual Undergraduate Data Blitz, organized by our Undergraduate Captain Moosa Syed. Presenters of Zhao lab: Lily Peters, Anna Widicus, Michael Sims, Jensen Weik, Anna Singh, Brynn Bauer, Paofue Yang, and Edward Chang, mentored by Soraya Sandoval, Natasha Mendez-Abello, Yu Gao, Moosa Syed, Yu (Kristy) Guo, Jiyoun Lee, and Zhiyan Xu. Presenters of Sousa lab: Anushri Bangalore and Samay Shah, mentored by Hannah Doll.
2024 Lab Annual Summer Picnic at the Lake Wingra
2024: Presenters and mentors from our lab at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium
2024: Natasha Mendez-Albelo receiving fellowship award from UW stem cell center.
2023: December: our Winter Holiday and White Elephant party:
2023 July: Our Lab’s Annual Undergraduate Student Data Blitz (July 20), followed by a celebration at the Terrace! Again, the Sousa lab joined us. Our undergraduate presenters: Sebastian Krebsbach, Iksha Dhawan, Ryan Buencamino (Purdue University), Paofue Yang, Lily Peters, JB, and, Edward Chang. Excellent job done! -congratulations to presenters, undergraduate captain Jonathan Le (our formal captain who spent his summer break in our lab), and their mentors: Yu Gao, Kristy Guo, Moosa Syed, Soraya Sandoval, Natasha Mendez, and Jonathan Le.
2023 July: Yina Xing, our lab manager and research technologist retired on July 3. Yina was a pillar and the go-to person in our lab. She has made significant contributions to our research and she has trained many students in our lab in the past 12 years. We thank her and will miss her. We celebrated with her in this beautiful summer evening.
2023. Kristy, Natasha, and Xinyu attended ISSCR meeting in Boston.
2023 Farewell party for Minjie Shen and his family. Minjie will be a professor at Fudan University (Shanghai, China)
2022 Carissa, Soraya, and Xinyu attended the Gage Lab Symposium and SFN, as well as the Big Ten Neuroscience Party hosted by Iowa in San Diego.
2022 Our Lab’s Annual Undergraduate Student Data Blitz (July 26), followed by a celebration at the Terrace! Again, the Sousa lab joined us. Our undergraduate presenters: Sebastian Krebsbach, Duc Phan, Iksha Dhawan, Ezra Jarzembowski, Callie Greene (Lawrence University), Natalie Wolkoff, Amaya Contractor, Edward Chang. Excellent job done! -congratulations to presenters, undergraduate captains Sabrina Huang and Keegan Schoeller, and their mentors: Yu Gao, Minjie Shen, Kristy Guo, Sabrina Huang, Keegan Schoeller, Moosa Syed, and Carissa Sirois.
2022: Celebration at the Terrace: Natasha passed prelim exam. Farewell to Keegan who will attend PhD program at UIUC.
2021 Annual Undergraduate Student Data Blitz.
2021. Farewell party for Jonathan and Tomer
2019 Winter Party
2019 Annual Undergraduate Student Data Blitz. Undergraduate presenters: Keegan Schoeller, Haakon Schriefer, Tomer Korabelninov, Jyotsna Pandey, Jonathan Le, Johnson Hoang. Excellent job done -congratulations to presenters, undergraduate captain Ryan Risgaard, and their mentors: Yu Gao, Minjie Shen, Sudharsan Kannan, Sahar Javadi, Michael Stockton!
(front: Jyotsna, Jonathan, Johnson)
2019 Lab Summer Picnic at the Madison Mallard Baseball Game
2018 Winter Party
2018 Summer Social at the Union Terrace
- 2017 Winter party
- 2017 Annual Lab Undergraduate DataBlitz and Summer Party
- 2016 Winter (White Elephant) Party (@Xinyu’s house)
2015 Winter Party (@Xinyu’s house)
- 2015 Lab Summer Picnic (@Hill Farm Swim Club)
- 2014 Winter Holiday White Elephant Party (@Xinyu’s house)
- 2014 Lab Summer Picnic (@Lake Wingra Park)
- Farewell to Weixiang Guo (April 2014) who is now a Professor/Principle Investigator at Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing).
- 2013 Lab Picnic ( @Devil’s Lake)
- Captures of Everyday Lab Life:
Joey Tidei presents are MCP 2015 symposium
Past photos:
Zhao-Lab @Madison 