Follow along for all the exciting developments in our lab!!

03/2024: Excited to announce that Adele has officially joined the lab as our first PhD student since the move to NYC! 

02/2024: Welcome to our newest graduate rotation student, Meilin! 

1/2024: Adele starts her graduate rotation in our lab – welcome Adele!

11/2023: Anagha joins the lab for a graduate rotation! 

09/2023: Welcome our newest research associate, Raquelle! 

07/2023: Katherine joins the lab as a Seaver Center Undergraduate Research Scholar – welcome Katherine!

05/2023-06/2023: BIG NEWS – The Panagiotakos lab moves to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Vince, Arpana, Georgia (and Ellie!) move east to set up in New York!

04/2023: Arpana delivers a spectacular exit seminar to complete her PhD – congratulations Dr. Arjun McKinney! 🎓 

11/2022: Georgia presents our work at SfN in San Diego during the minisymposium “The Emerging Interface between Epilepsy and Autism: From Shared Molecules to Common Circuitry Defects”.

10/2022: Jeff’s last day – congratulations on your new job at MapLight Therapeutics! Good luck, Jeff!

09/2022: Our new review, (Ca2+)ptained by Arpana in collaboration with former postdoc Ralitsa is published in Development! In this piece, we describe the spatiotemporal regulation of calcium signaling and its role in directing neurodevelopmental events in the cortex. (Check it out here!)

07/2022: Notice of Award for our lab’s second NIH R01 grant!

06/2022: Our former lab manager, Teresa, was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Warmest congratulations to Teresa!

05/2022: Jeff joins the lab – welcome Jeff!

04/2022: Sunrae starts her rotation – let the ion channel fun commence!

11/2021: A perspective piece on early developmental roles for neuropsychiatric disease-associated proteins, co-written by Georgia and Sergiu Pasca at Stanford, is published in Neuron. (Check it out here!)

09/2021: Tony is selected as a UCSF Discovery Fellow – big congratulations, Tony!!

06/2021: Notice of Award for our lab’s NIH R56 grant!

05/2021: Spectrum publishes an interview with Georgia, and Ellie’s celebrity status is cemented. (Check it out here!)

03/2021: Our collaborative study with the Crabtree lab is published as the cover article in Genes & Development! Congratulations to co-first authors Simon and Ralitsa and all the co-authors! (Check it out here!)

02/2021: Our study with the Crabtree lab at Stanford on BAF subunit switching during cortical deevelopment is out online in Genes & Development! Check out this great piece on our findings by UCSF news: (Click here!)

02/2021: Tony excels at his qualifying exam and is officially a PhD candidate – go Tony!

12/2020: Notice of Award for our lab’s first NIH R01 grant!

09/2020: Former postdoctoral fellow, Ralitsa, started a new job as a senior scientist at Teva Pharmaceuticals – congratulations and best of luck, Ralitsa!! 

09/2020: Our former lab manager, Teresa, has started her Ph.D. studies in the Microbe-Host Interactions Graduate Program at Vanderbilt! Good luck Teresa!

04/2020: In the midst of the very unsettling times we are living in, some great news – Tony joins the Selleri and Panagiotakos labs! Welcome Tony!

04/2020: Our former undergraduate researcher, Chris, has decided to pursue his Ph.D. in Neural Computation at Carnegie Mellon this fall! Go Chris!!

01/2020: Our first preprint is on bioRxiv! An exciting collaboration with the Crabtree lab showing a causal role for BAF subunit switching in regulating chromatin accessibility and neural progenitor cell cycle exit in the developing brain. Wonderful work by Simon (Crabtree lab) and Ralitsa and all the co-authors! (Check it out here!)

12/2019: Our paper comes out in eLife showing how L-type calcium channels influence the development of the cortex and how aberrant splicing of the L-type channel Cav1.2 contributes to differentiation defects in Timothy syndrome. (Check it out here!) 

11/2019: Vince joins the lab – welcome Vince!

09/2019: Georgia receives a UCSF Broad Center Seed Grant.

06/2019: Ralitsa’s abstract receives a Merit Award and Travel Award at ISSCR 2019!

05/2019: Arpana is awarded Honorable Mention for the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring for Graduate Students. So proud of you, Arpana!

11/2018: Arpana and Ralitsa present their projects at SfN to rave reviews. Amazing job!

11/2018: Ralitsa’s project and excellent talk earns the LLHF John S. Spice Award in Aging! Beaming with pride – woohoo!

10/2018: Ahmad officially joins the lab.

08/2018: Jonathan leaves the lab to start an internship at the Gladstone Institutes – good luck Jonathan!

06/2018: Zachary rejoins our team and Poorvi is the newest member of the lab.

12/2017: Georgia receives a UCSF RAP Pilot Grant for Junior Investigators in Basic and Clinical/Translational Sciences!

10/2017: Georgia receives the SFARI Explorer Award from the Simons Foundation!

10/2017: Sasha and Jonathan join our team. Welcome!

07/2017: Zachary and Hayley join the lab!

06/2017: Arpana passes her qualifying exam with flying colors – she is officially a PhD candidate. Go Arpana!

06/2017: Teresa joins our team – welcome Teresa!

06/2017: Ralitsa receives a Hillblom Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship – congratulations Ralitsa!

06/2017: Christos leaves the lab to start at UCLA Medical School – good luck, Christos!

10/2016: Chris joins our team – welcome Chris!

08/2016: Arpana officially joins the lab (after the longest rotation in history)!

05/2016: Ralitsa joins the lab! Welcome Ralitsa!

07/2015: The Panagiotakos lab moves into its home in the Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research.

06/2015: Christos is the first member of the Panagiotakos lab!

11/2014: Georgia’s first day at UCSF!

11/2013: Georgia is selected as a UCSF Sandler Faculty Fellow.