May 30 2023

Emily is a rising Barnard junior majoring in Neuroscience. Emily has previously studied the discrepancies in migrational behavior of osteosarcoma and dental pulp stem cells at Stonybrook University. She is interested in the development of the cortex, specifically, characterizing the role of RPGRIP1L gene in neuronal cells.

July 1 2023

Dr. Carlos Diaz Salazar Albelda received Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowship in Biomedical Science award.

January 24 2024

Alejandro is an undergraduate 2nd-year studying Biochemistry at Columbia University. During his time in the Polleux Lab, he will be investigating the role of postsynaptic proteins SRGAP2 and SynGAP1 and their impact on the maturational state of excitatory and inhibitory synapses in cortical pyramidal neurons. He is very excited to continue working in the lab as well as learning from his peers

Feb 23 2024

Congratulation to Stevie Hamilton on successfully defending her pHD thesis titled ‘‘Novel regulation and functions of AMPK in developing and adult neurons’’

May 13 2024

Ashley is an undergrad at Barnard College studying neuroscience. In the Polleux lab, she is working with Emiliano Zamponi to study the mechanisms that orchestrate organelle structure and function in GABAergic interneurons.

August 15 2022

Fatima is a pre-med student who joined the lab in the Summer of 2022 to study mechanisms of axon degeneration.

September 10 2022

Alexa is a junior in Columbia's Fu School of Engineering and Applied Science studying Biomedical Engineering on a Bioinformatics track and Computer Science. She joined the Polleux Lab in September 2022 and is helping look at how genetic changes affect synaptic plasticity.

October 10 2022

Leah is an undergraduate sophomore at Columbia University engaged in neuroscience and behavioral biology, as well as its intersectionality with technology to further sustain a deeper understanding of brain organization in health and disease states. Apart from her interest in biotechnology, Leah is particularly fascinated in the neural mechanisms behind Alzheimer's, and is passionate about mental health and brain science outreach!

December 1 2023

Current Polleux lab members and Alumni (via Zoom) celebrated Dr. Polleux on 20 years of his lab!

May 15 2023

Congratulations to Daniel M. Virga on successfully defending his pHD thesis

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Carlos and Eugenie won the peoples choice award at the Zuckerman Imaging Competition! Carlos' science project focuses on SRGAP2A in microglia.

Martina was recently granted an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the role of Human Specific Gene Duplications in shaping the human brain. She will be using the molecular and cellular expertise in the Polleux Lab to screen for the best gene candidates and develop novel humanized mouse models to discover what makes the human brain unique

Our paper entitled ‘A human-specific modifier of cortical circuit connectivity and circuit function’ just came out in Nature on October 27, 2021 This represents about >6 years of work by incredibly talented post-doc Ewoud Schmidt

Excited to share our paper entitled ‘Synaptogenic activity of the axon guidance molecule Robo2 underlies hippocampal circuit function’ @CellReports that came out on October 20, 2021 This represents >6 years of work by our fabulous postdoc @HeikeNeuro and an incredibly fruitful collaboration with @attila_losonczy as well as Larry Shapiro and Barry Honig @ZuckermanBrain and @joris_dewit_lab @CBD_VIB

Thanks very much to our essential workers Heike, Ewoud, Danny, Kevin and Qiaolian for keeping our mice happy and healthy during the lock down. The rest of us are very happy to be returning to our experiments as safely and efficiently as possible.

Congratulations to Ewoud for starting his new lab! He will be sorely missed!!

I am a junior at Columbia College studying Neuroscience and Behavior. Outside of class, I'm the president of SEBS, which is a science advocacy organization that mentors elementary school students, and I'm also part of Columbia Bartending Agency. In lab, I work on synaptic plasticity in CA1 pyramidal neurons.

Enjoying a warm sunny day to have a few drinks outdoor and snap a lab picture!

Justin O'Hare presented his recent work examining how calcium release from the ER, and its buffering by mitochondria, contribute to calcium-dependent plasticity mechanisms thought to underlie learning and memory in the hippocampus.

Franck just gave a talk on SRGAP2C on World Wide Neuro! Grateful for this wonderful platform in times of COVID-19 to enable us to exchange our science

Our PI, Franck Polleux and James Noonan from @Yale discuss about what makes us human in this article by ZI!

Our post-doc Heike Blockus is part of the 2020 Fellows of the leading Edge Symposia from HHMI Janelia Research Campus!

Welcome to Carlos and Martina our two new post-docs!

We’re excited to have undergraduate student Natalie Park join our lab! Natalie studies neuroscience and classics as a John Jay Scholar at Columbia College, where in addition to research, she welcomes prospective students as part of the Undergraduate Recruitment Committee and serves as a copy-editor for the Columbia Daily Spectator.

Congratulations to our great postdoc Heike Blockus for getting the K99 grant!

This December Victoria Hewitt attended the ASCB EMBO 2019 Cell Biology Meeting in Washington DC. She had a great time learning about the latest in new discoveries and technology, catching up with fellow mitochondriacs and presenting a poster of her work on reducing PDZD8 mediated ER-mitochondrial contacts in Drosophila melanogaster neurons.

So proud of having Daniel Iascone's paper out in Neuron !

We are flattening the curve and ramping down our lab. Here is our first Zoom lab-meeting!

Congratulations to Justin O'Hare for being awarded an F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship!