January 2023
Our invited review article "Who's talking to who: microbiome-enteric nervous system interactions in early life" has been accepted in the American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
December 2022
Our paper "A New Transgenic Tool to Study the Ret Signaling Pathway in the Enteric Nervous System" - congratulations to first-author Ashoka and co-author Annie!
November 2022
Our new fish facility manager Kristen Lounsbury has started - welcome!
May 2022
Graduate student Ashoka receives the 2022 John R. Shaver Research Award for the summer - congrats!
May 2022
Graduate student Ashoka receives a CNS Dissertation Continuation Fellowship for the summer - congrats!
May 2022
Our review article "Healing the gut’s brain: Regeneration in the enteric nervous system" has been published in IJMS - congratulations to first author Helen!
April 2022
Sad to say good-bye to Sara and Christina as they embark on their exciting next steps - Sara will start her DMV/PhD at Colorado State in the fall and Christina will work as a research technician at Harvard University!
April 2022
Undergraduates Christina and Sara both receive the MSU Board of Trustees’ scholarship award and the Outstanding Academic Achievement and Promise in Zoology Award - congratulations!!
Jan 2022
Gia Haddock joins as new fish facility manager - welcome!
Dec 2021
We have received the awesome news that our 1.72M NSF-CAREER grant will be funded!
Aug 2021
Brooke Jefferey (IBIO PhD program) joins the team as a graduate student - welcome!
April 2021
Congrats to Christina Liu for becoming a Dean's Research Scholar!
May 2020
Undergraduate Christina Liu receives a Vera M. Wallach Honors College Scholarship for fall 2020 - congratulations!
Jan 2020
Undergraduate Olivia Duru receives a College of Natural Science Undergraduate Research Support Scholarship for spring 2020- congratulations
Sept 2019
Our IBIO Emerging Scholars, Treasure Irvin & Sharon An start working in the lab - welcome!
Aug 2019
Our paper "Epigenetic Factors Dnmt1 and Uhrf1 coordinate intestinal development" is published in Developmental biology (Ganz et al., 2019) and we got the cover!
July 2019
Our first graduate student, Ashoka Bandla (IBIO PhD program) joins the lab - welcome!
May 2019
Sad to say good-bye to Nora Straquadine & Shravani Vatti - good luck for your next steps
Jan 2019
We receive external funding with a 2019 AGA-Allergan Foundation Pilot Research Award in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Sept 2018
Jon (IBIO), Olivia (Neuroscience program) and Sara (Emerging Scholar Program, IBIO) join the lab - welcome!
Our new fish facility manager is here: Theresa Gunn - welcome!
Helen Rueckert takes over for a month as interim fish facility manager and then starts in the lab as a research technician
August 2018
We are sad to say goodbye to Carrie
March 2018
We receive external funding with the research grant from the American Gastroenterology and Motility Society (ANMS)!
January 2018
Rachael joins the lab - welcome!
November 2017
Fiona joins the lab joint with the Braasch lab - welcome!
August 2017
Julia wins the ANMS Young Investigator Award 2017
RJ joins the lab as a rotation student from the BMS grad program - welcome!
July 2017
Annie joins the lab as postdoc/lab manager - welcome!
Isabel is doing her research work in the lab
Wilmarie is our first rotation student from the Neuroscience program - welcome!
June 2017
Grant joins the lab as a volunteer - welcome!
April 2017
Carrie joins the lab as a shared fish facility manager between the Braasch and the Ganz lab - welcome!
Madison joins the lab on a joint project with the Braasch lab - welcome!
January 2017
First fish in the main room - it's starting to look like a real fish facility!
November 2016
Isabel joins the lab as our first highschool student - welcome!
Charlotte's first -author paper just got published (Taylor et al., 2016) on our work on heterogeneous enteric nervous system (ENS) stem cell populations and their distinct spatial and temporal distribution during ENS development.
September 2016
Chuhao joins the lab as our first undergraduate - welcome!
July 2016
Our joined fish system with the Braasch lab gets installed - moving forward!
June 2016
Gabriela Saldana joins the lab as our fish technician/lab manager - welcome!
February 2016
Renovation work of the fish lab and lab space has started in Giltner Hall 39/40