Most Recent News Below: April 2024, Congratulations Cameron for being awarded a 2yr Gilman Fellowship for your PhD work to date!
February 2024, Congratulations Dr. Ralowicz, very well done presentation and defense under the bright lights of Dr. Erik Jorgensen as an external examiner! It has been an amazing 5 years and I am excited to hear how the new job is going and the future successes. Great paper in J. Neuroscience on some spectacular work if I do say so myself.
February 2024,Welcome to the lab for a rotation Matt! Excited to follow up vesicle fusion project and check out new indicators with you!
December 2023, Welcome to the lab for a rotation Mizuki! Excited to explore glutamate release!
September 2023, Welcome to the lab for a rotation Sasipha, excited to work on calcium channels with you!
July 2023, Welcome to the lab Emily M. Duenas Cornell du Houx as part of the DPREP program, looking forward to working with you and developing a new research project!
July 2023,Back from the Neurobiology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole (apply next year!). So great to work with Liz, Cara and Favour under the awesome mentorship of Cameron Paton and Harold MacGillavry on a new project this summer! Hopefully details to follow
July 2023, Lab meets new president, Dr. Sian Beilock!
June 2023, Wow, first summer as a co-Director of the Neurobiology Program in Woods Hole. So lucky to be working with Directors Ricardo Araneda and Rebecca Piskorowski. Hoping to create a great learning opportunity this summer!
May 2023, Congrats Amelia and Sam on the Nature Methods Paper as part of a fun collaboration spearheaded by Abhi Aggarwal in the Podgorski lab now at the Allen Institute. So many experiments to help find an incredible glutamate indicator. Please give it a try for your own experiments and contact us for any help using it. SUPER useful reporter of exocytosis.
February 2023, So excited to have Rachel Dansereau rotate in our lab group, good luck Rachel on exploring ER calcium!
October 2022,Congrats Sam on your publication in Neuron, what an awesome collaboration with the Davis lab at UCSF!
June 2022, Wow so much has happened!! First off, congrats to Lauren on her graduation, we are so excited to see what you do with your postdoc in the Higley lab at Yale! Also, we enthusiastically welcome Cameron Paton into the lab officially as a graduate student after an incredibly productive rotation. Finally congrats to the Lab for getting a new NIH grant to develop voltage sensor imaging technology with PSI under the leadership of Youbo Zhao!
April 2022, Congratulations Dr. Panzera, wow what a thesis presentation and defense! Can't wait to see what you get up to next in the Higley Lab at Yale for your postdoc! Please come back and visit!!! March 2022, Welcome for a spring rotation Cameron Paton, can't wait to see what you discover
January 2022, New Preprint up about Glutamate sensors, so much fun to work with collaborators https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.13.480251v1
September 2021, Welcome Nicholas Rosenthal to the Hoppa Lab to start your Fall rotation!
August 2021, Welcome Dr Aman Aberra to the group, can wait to see what we learn together!
July 2021, Goodbye In Ha Cho, good luck at Adimab with your group!
June 2021, Looking forward to participating in the Neurobiology Course at Woods Hole this summer with Lauren Panzera! Dartmouth Graduate Students Tak Shun and Amelia Ralowicz are taking said course as well!
June 2021, Congrats Amelia on passing your Qualifying Exam!! May 2021, Welcome Sam Bergerson to the Hoppa Lab, we are excited to help you grow as a scientist and achieve your scientific ambitions!
May 2021, Mike promoted to Associate Professor!
May 2021, Congrats Mike on being named as a Co-Director to the new Graduate Program in Integrative Neuroscience at Dartmouth (IND). So excited to have a program dedicated to training in Neuroscience and so excited to help form it with Dr. Francesca Gilli!
March 2021, We welcome Ziwei She as a rotation student in the laboratory!
February 2021, congratulations Aman Aberra on being awarded a Neukom Fellowship, absolutely stoked for you to join our group this coming Fall as Dr Aberra!
November 2020, Congratulations Dr. In Ha Cho and Lauren for your new paper in PNAS! Wow, what an exciting project it has been to work with you both on this project!
September 2020, We welcome Sam Bergerson and Sarah Najera as rotation students in the laboratory!
May 2020, Congrats Lorna McElrath on defending your undergraduate Neuroscience Thesis! So proud of you and excited to see what you get up to next after joining the Greenberg Lab at Harvard.
May 2020: Double Joy, please see our two new papers using the calcium integrator CaMPARI to look at synapse activity in terminals and spines in an awesome collaboration with the Oertner Lab and a great project led by Katie Edwards in a collaboration with the Bosco Lab looking at CaMPARI calcium integrators in freely moving fruit fly brains! March 2020, Welcome the lab Amelia to start her PhD training!
January 2020 Happy New Year and we welcome 2 graduate rotation students David Ritz and Genaro Oliveda and two new undergraduates into the lab Fateema Begum and Sophie Kodak.
December 2019 Congrats to us for obtaining a new R01 grant from the NIH working with Dr. Tamkun at Colorado State on Kv2 channels!
September 2019 We welcome Amelia Ralowicz as a PEMM rotation student
August 2019 Welcome to the lab Dr. Andrew Coleman after a successful defense of you PhD at Tufts!
August 2019 Congrats to Scott Alpizar on your new position as a Venture Associate at New Jersey Health Associates, very proud of you and looking forward to hearing about your next achievements
June 2019 Congrats to Lauren Panzera on winning a NIH NRSA F31 Fellowship for her work on synaptic transmission!
May 2019 Congrats to the new Dr. Scott Alpizar, looking forward to what comes next and seeing you at the MBL Neurobiology Course this summer! March 2019, Check out our two new review articles on genetically encoded voltage indicators by Lauren Panzera and subcellular modulation of voltage in the axon by Scott Alpizar and In Ha Cho. Great job team!
December 31, 2018. Looking forward to a new year and new discoveries!
December 10, 2018. We welcome new laboratory member Dr. Kelly Forest after a very successful PhD in Dr. Nichol's Laboratory at UH. https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/nichols-laboratory/
December 1 2018. Congratulations to Lorna McElrath on becoming a Junior Scholar, looking forward to a productive research year in 2019!
November 2018 We welcome our new laboratory member Dr. Michelle Gleason, great to have you on the team!
September 5, 2018. Congratulations to Ryan O'Toole on completion of his Master's Defense! Well done!!
July 27, 2018. Just got back from teaching in the Neurobiology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Thanks for being great housemates and inspirational faculty @guntherwho and @carrie_adler. Major shout out to my group of students, Miguel, Raul, and Hanieh. In Ha and I had a great time, and loved imaging MINIshttp://social.mbl.edu/visualizing-minis-in-neurons-in-the-neurobiology-course-haniehfalahati.
Congratulations to Morven Chin for defending your undergraduate honors thesis and passing with High Honors after a wonderful talk and strong mastery of the subject during your oral defense. We wish you the best next year at Harvard as you begin your path towards earning a PhD!! May 21, 2018. Congratulations Jun Ho Lee on your new job in the Nautiyal Lab -- we will miss you! https://www.katenautiyal.com/
March 27, 2018. We welcome Gregor Sasche from the University of Oxford to visit our laboratory to perform experiments and share his knowledge!
March 15, 2018. Receipt of NIH/NIGMS Support through Dartmouth's NIH/IDeA-funded Institute for Biomolecular Targeting (BioMT). Very excited to link up with this terrific group and expand our research.
January 10, 2018. Congratulations to Song Heui Cho for your acceptance into Medical School at the prestigious Korea University College of Medicine in Seoul!!
October 6, 2017. Congratulations Lauren on passing your Qual with flying colors!
October 1, 2017. Congratulations Lauren on receiving a GAANN fellowship
September 8, 2017. We welcome a new MCB Rotation Student Student Eva Childers to the Laboratory!
September 3, 2017 Congrats to In Ha, Lauren and Morven on their publication in the Journal of Neuroscience! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28871036
September 2, 2017. Congratulations to Sabrina Straus and Mia Drury for winning sophomore research Fellowships