August, 2025
Riva Dhyani, our high school student, presented her summer project at the Simons SRP Fellow Symposium! Her poster is titled “Exposure to Early Life Stress leads to sex-specific behavioral phenotypes in mice.”
August, 2025
Amber Wilson, our undergrad RA, presented her summer project at the URECA Symposium! Her poster is entitled “Investigation of Prefrontal Protein Synthesis in Differential Signaled Active Avoidance”.
July 20, 2025
Our PhD student Sheed Lawal has been accepted into the Center for Inclusion Stony Brook University Scholars program!
July 2025
Prerana was nominated in the Institute for Integrated Development Studies’ list of Magnificent 100+, featuring over 100 outstanding Nepali diaspora members across various fields.
https://bit.ly/41daG3Q
July 20, 2025
Our lab has received a seed grant from the Hartman Foundation to study the role of integrated stress response in Prefrontal Neurons in Parkinson’s-Related mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
July 15, 2025
We bid farewell to our amazing lab manager, Andrew Gallagher, who is starting his PhD in the Program in Neuroscience within our department this Fall. We will see him again for his rotation in Winter 2025.
July 2025
We welcome Dhananjay Sharma, MS student in Data Science, to our team! Dhananjay is developing the DeepLabCut pipeline for various behavioral paradigms, maintaining the behavior pipeline, and analyzing SAA fiber photometry data.
June 26, 2025
This summer, we welcome Riva Dhyani, our Simons SRP fellow and high school student from Queens High School for the Sciences at York College.
June 25, 2025
We have a new bioRxiv preprint entitled “Aberrant TSC-Rheb axis in Oxytocin receptor+ cells mediate stress-induced anxiety”. Olivia and Saheed are both co-first authors for this manuscript - congratulations!
https://bit.ly/4oFQW2V
June 11, 2025
The Shrestha Lab had some fun in the sun with our summer lab outing to Smith Point Beach in Shirley, Long Island!
May 26, 2025
This summer, one of our undergraduate students, Amber Wilson, received the Frances Velay Women in STEM Fellowship of the Panphil Foundation to support her summer research in the Lab!
May 9, 2025
Three of our lab members, Saheed, Matt, and Sandra, presented posters at the Graduate Department’s Symposium in Neuroscience.
May 2025
Two of our master's students graduated from the Department of Computer Science. Congratulations to Harshil Sanghvi and Aayush Shah! Also, best wishes to Harshil and Aayush for the next steps in their career as software engineers at Oracle and Meta respectively!
March 2025
We welcome Lalith Punepalle, a master's student in Computer Science at Stony Brook!
March 2025
We welcome Elyse Brozost, a PhD student starting her rotation with us.
January 2025
This spring semester, we welcome Sweta Jha, our newest undergraduate research assistant!
December 5, 2024
Happy Holidays from the Shrestha Lab at our annual Holiday Dinner!
September 24, 2024
Prerana gave a seminar as part of the Stony Brook STEM series for the broader Stony Brook University community. Her talk was entitled: Engineering Protein Synthesis Modulators to Understand the Neural Basis of Emotional Behaviors.
September 2024
This fall, we welcome Rachell Rivera, a PhD student who will be joining us for her fall rotation in our Lab.
August 2024
We welcome Sandra, who will be joining us for her master's in Neurobiology and Behavior.
August 2024
Ayma Fawad, one of our high school students, presented her summer project at the Simons SRP Fellow Symposium!
August 1, 2024
Amber Wilson, one of our undergraduate students, presented her summer project at the Stony Brook University URECA Summer Symposium!
July 27, 2024
The Shrestha lab summer outing to Sunken Meadow State Park!
July 2024
This summer, we welcome two high school students, Ayma Fawad and Remi Pai, joining us this summer through the Simons Summer Research Program.
May 12, 2024
Congratulations to one of our undergraduate students to Courtney Ma, who will be graduating this week with a Bachelor of Science in Biology from SBU!
June, 2024
Jasmine Stansil, MSTP student, started her rotation in Shrestha Lab.
June 3, 2024
Javed Iqbal joined Shrestha Lab as a Senior Postdoctoral Associate.
May 29, 2024
Amber Wilson started her research internship in Shrestha lab as a part of the Summer Simons Scholar - Explorations in STEM program.
February 15, 2024
Saheed was awarded the Regeneron Scholarship to participate in 2024 Expression, Purification & Analysis of Proteins & Protein Complexes course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (04/02/24 - 04/16/24).
January 31, 2024
Sunghoon Kim's last day in the lab as a postdoctoral associate. Bittersweet news, as we celebrate his new position as an Assistant Professor at Chungnam National University in South Korea.
https://sites.google.com/view/shkimlab
January 25, 2024
Prerana was featured in the Stony Brook University Press Release for her recent R01 grant for PTSD research.
https://bit.ly/4mTX8ml
January 9, 2024
Congratulations to Olivia Tabaka on successfully defending her master's thesis! Her thesis elucidates the molecular mechanisms underlying Tuberous Sclerosis Complex-modulation of stress-precipitated emotional behaviors.
January 2, 2024
Prerana gave a talk and participated in a panel at the 48th Annual Winter Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory in Park City, Utah.
December 12, 2023
Lab Holiday Dinner!
December 8, 2023
We received our first R01 funding from the National Institutes of Mental Health on our project entitled “Prefrontal pathway-specific modulation of protein synthesis in emotional memories”!
December 4, 2022
Prerana was honored by the Nepali Women's Global Network as a Young Pioneer in Neuroscience.
November 11-14, 2023
Saheed Lawal presented a poster at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. The poster was titled “Oxytocin neuromodulation of social isolation-induced anxiety in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex”
November 9-10, 2023
Prerana was invited to give a talk on oxytocin neuromodulation of emotional behaviors in Tuberous Sclerosis complex at the Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society meeting in Washington DC.
September 22, 2023
The lab participated at the Annual Neurobiology & Behavior Retreat held at Old Field Club in Setauket. Olivia Tabaka, MS student in the lab, presented a poster on “Behavioral phenotypes of social isolation stress in conditional Tsc2 heterozygous null mice”
September 14, 2023
Aayush Shah joined the lab as a master's student in computer science
August 25, 2023
Lauren Senia, MS student in the lab, graduated with a MS degree in Neurobiology & Behavior.
August 24, 2023
Courtney Ma joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant
August 5, 2023
NYC trip - the lab went to see the Invisible Worlds exhibit at the Museum of Natural History
May 29, 2023
Miura Traficante joined the lab as a summer SOAR research fellow. SOAR funding is a new initiative funded through the SUNY Chancellor that provides additional research opportunities to SUNY students who are Pell-eligible and or first-generation students. The program will be administered by the Center for Inclusive Education, in partnership with URECA.
June 15, 2023:
Saheed Lawal and Matt Dickinson officially joined the lab for their PhD
May 31, 2023
The lab’s collaborative work was published in Science signaling. Boender et al, An AAV-CRISPR/Cas9 strategy for gene editing across divergent rodent species: Targeting neural oxytocin receptors as a proof of concept https://bit.ly/3RQL4VX
April 25-30, 2023
Prerana gave a talk at the International Conference on Learning & Memory, Irvine, CA
April 16, 2023
Suk-Yin Tam joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant
May 2, 2023
Stephanie Chu and Keith Yeung, undergraduate students in the lab, presented posters at the URECA symposium.
April 28, 2023
Lauren Senia and Olivia Tabaka, MS students in the lab, presented posters at the Program in Neuroscience symposium held annually. Lauren Senia was awarded the Best MS Poster award for her presentation.
March 30, 2023
Keith Yeung, undergraduate researcher in the lab, was selected to receive the Chhabra-URECA scholarship award in the amount of $7,000 to support research activities in the Shrestha lab during summer 2023. This award is generously sponsored with funding from the Chhabra Endowment for Undergraduate Summer Research and recognizes students with a strong passion for research.
February 27, 2023
Matt Dickinson joined the lab to start his PhD rotation
January 17, 2023
Theresa Lamia joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant.
December 27, 2022
Michelle Surdyn graduated with a MS in Physiology and Biophysics from RSOM
November 17, 2022
The lab published a review article in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, entitled: Triana-Del Rio et al, The modulation of emotional and social behaviors by oxytocin signaling in limbic network. https://bit.ly/4aumPEs
September 26, 2022
Sunghoon Kim joined Shrestha Lab as a postdoctoral associate. His project is focused on studying molecular mechanisms of cell-type-specific contributions to memory
September 25, 2022
Review on “The modulation of emotional and social behaviors by oxytocin signaling in limbic network” got accepted in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. Authors include Rodrigo Triana Del Rio, Sayali Ranade, Jahel Guardado, Joseph Ledoux, Eric Klann and Prerana Shrestha.
September 12, 2022
Prerana gave a talk on Cell type-specific nascent protein synthesis in memory consolidation as an invited speaker at the Horizons of Molecular Biology symposium organized by IMRS students in Max Planck Institute, Gottenberg, Germany. She also participated in a panel discussion on “Who gets credit in Science”.
September 5, 2022
MS Graduate students, Lauren Senia and Olivia Tabaka, joined Shrestha lab for their thesis projects. Saheed Lawal started his PhD rotation in Shrestha Lab.
July 25, 2022
Shrestha Lab outing - Life of a Neuron exhibit in NYC
July 18, 2022
Andrew Gallagher joins Shrestha Lab as the Lab Manager and Research Support Specialist.
July 08–11, 2022
Prerana is named Kavli Fellow for 2022 and is invited to speak at the 19th Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science held at the National Academy of Sciences in Irvine, California.
https://bit.ly/3J3vKj1
May 27, 2021
We bid farewell to our excellent lab manager, Alex Fraser
April 19, 2022
Dr. Shrestha serves as ad hoc reviewer for the Drug Discovery for the Nervous System (DDNS) study section
April 15, 2022
Dr. Shrestha was a panelist in the career panel for professional development of advanced graduate students and postdocs, organized by Nepali Academics in America (NACA). Dr. Shrestha also gave a talk at the Biomedical Sciences and Tech Seminar organized by NACA.
April 11, 2022
Keith Yeung joined as an undergrad research assistant
March 8, 2022
Shrestha lab dinner
February 17, 2022
Lab’s first publication - a review article in Trends in Neurosciences by Dr. Shrestha and Dr. Eric Klann
February 15, 2022
Dr. Shrestha is named a Sloan research fellow by Alfred P Sloan Foundation.
February 2, 2022
Michelle Surdyn joined as a MS graduate student in Physiology & Biophysics in Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.
November 8, 2021
Dr. Shrestha presented a poster on Stress induced emotional dysregulation in a mouse model of Tuberous Sclerosis at SfN 2021.
October 17, 2021
Shrestha lab BBQ
September 13, 2021
Dr. Sayali Ranade joined as a postdoctoral associate
August 5, 2021
Dr. Shrestha was a panelist in the Leon Levy Symposium organized by NYU
July 2021
Dr. Shrestha was a speaker and panelist at Women in Data Science Kathmandu (WiDS), a worldwide initiative started at Stanford University to engage all genders in data science.
May 17, 2021
Stephanie Chu joined as undergrad research assistant
March 14, 2021
Alex Fraser joined as the Lab manager and research support specialist
January 2, 2021
Shrestha lab opened in the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior at Stony Brook University.
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