See some highlights of lab achievements and fun below and follow us on twitter @CarvillLab
2023
- Lab dances Hannah’s PhD project for the Dance Your PhD contest and are FINALISTS
- Carvill lab attends ICHG in South Africa
- Jennifer, Aishwarya and Mia’s ICHG posters are selected for the Young Investigator Award
- Hannah gives a platform talk at ICHG 2023
- Aishwarya receives the Young Investigator Award for Best Poster Presentation at ICHG 2023
- Julia NU undergrad joins the lab
- Likhita is accepted into DAAD RISE program and heads to Germany for the summer
- Mia and Esther pass quals and become official PhD candidates!
- Carina awarded Best Overall Oral Presentation at Undergrad Research Exposition
- Carina awarded Rita Balice-Gordon Prize in Neuroscience
- Julia awarded Weinberg Summer Grant
- Carina joins lab as Research Tech 1
- Esther and Gemma at CCC Family and Scientific Conference
- Aishwarya presents at GRC’s Genome Architecture in Cell Fate and Disease
- Aishwarya awarded AES Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship
- Jung leaves lab to pursue adventure in Japan 🙁
- Haritha presents at the Birth Defects Research and Prevention Society Annual Conference
- Jeff presents at the Mutational Scanning Symposium in London
- Jeff invited as speaker for the TSC Research Conference with a travel award
- Hannah defends thesis as first Carvill lab graduate!!
- Hannah accepts post-doc position in Dr. Aaron Quinlan’s lab at University of Utah
- Hannah awarded Driskill Research Award 2023
- Carvill lab goes on SEGWAY TOUR during annual lab retreat
- Esther appointed Snack Empress
- Masha promoted to Research Tech 2
- Jennifer gets engaged!
- Esther gets engaged!
2022
- First Carvill Lab Retreat
- Esther joins the lab (MSTP)
- Mia joins the lab (DGP)
- Kay-Marie accepted into the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
- Carina receives the prestigious 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarship!
- Likhita and Karthik NU undergrads join the lab
- Hannah gives platform talk at Mechanisms in Epilepsy GRC
- Gemma awarded 2022 ANA Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award in Neuroscience
- Jeff selected for AES Junior Investigator Award
- Esther awarded a spot on Physical Genomics T32
- Cole joins lab as a Research Tech 1
- Haritha joins lab as a Research Tech 2
- Hannah is a semifinalist for ASHG Charles Epstein Trainee Award
- Aishwarya and Mia’s ASHG posters awarded Reviewers’ Choice
- Hannah and Carina selected to give platform talks at ASHG
- Jeff selected for CURE Epilepsy Taking Flight Award
2021
- Mimi leaves for PhD at University of Utah
- Gemma on leave for first baby!
- Aishwarya the PhD candidate
- Jeff promoted to Research Assistant Professor
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We’re all vaccinated, thank you SCIENCE! Excited to be back to usual 100% lab life!
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Undergrads, Marta and Kristy – now NU graduates! Marta is off to do a PhD in Scotland and Kristy on the path to med school!
- Jennifer wins inaugural May Meatballs trophy
- Carina NU undergrad joins the lab
- Jung joins the lab as a Research Tech 2
- Masha joins the lab as a Research Tech 1
- Aishwarya was invited to present a poster at the Keystone Symposia on Higher-Order Chromatin Architecture in Time and Space conference
2020
- Lab Babies!
- Hannah the PhD candidate!
- Gemma joins the SAB of the Coalition to Cure CHD2
- Carvill Lab form a new collaboration with the Nobrega Lab at UofC and are awarded the CBC Catalyst Award
- Carvill Lab will head up the Gene Variant and Curation Core of the U54 Center Without Walls EpiMVP (Epilepsy Multiplatform Variant Prediction)
- Aishwarya joins the lab as a DGP grad student
- Eleanor, undergrad at NU joins the Carvill Lab and receives a URG for summer research (now fall – thanks COVID)
- Jennifer the PhD candidate!
- Carvill lab happy hour goes virtual
- Jennifer is awarded the American Epilepsy Society Predoctoral Fellowship – CONGRATS Jennifer!
- Lab photo shoot
2019
- Looking for Answers to Epilepsy in a Blood Test
- Jennifer joins the lab as a DGP Student
- Jonathan, Mimi and Chris join the lab
- Our work on SCN1A poison exons will be supported for the next two years by the Dravet Syndrome Foundation (DSF) – thank you to DSF!
- Lab Photo Shoot!
- Team bids farewell to Aishwarya
- Colleen and Marta, undergrads at NU, join the Carvill lab
2018
- Jeff joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow
- Gemma and Dr. Gerard ran an Investigators Workshop on adult epilepsy genetics at the American Epilepsy Society
- Gemma receives the NIH New Innovator (DP2) award
- Hannah joins the lab as our first grad student!
- MC is off to grad school at U of C, congrats MC!!
- Michele visits the Carvill Lab for 6 months and returns to Italy for a PhD program – congrats Michele!
- Halloween in the Carvill and Guemez-Gamboa Labs
- Jeff and Kay-Marie present their work on CHD2 and SZT2 at ASHG
- Scooter time!
2017
- Aishwarya joins the Lab!
- Lab bids farewell to Mattina
- Gemma receives the AES Junior Investigator Award
- Katherine Anjali Fleck joins the lab as a summer undergraduate student
- Kay-Marie joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow
- MC joins the lab
- Lab’s first Halloween
2016
- Carvill Lab opens October 3rd (boxes boxes boxes!)
- Mattina Alonge joins the lab!
Lab Twins
- Real twins!
- Almost real twins!
