9/2023: Welcome SURFiN Fellows Sophia Flatt, Amaya Chikuni,Vy Nguyen, and Erika Blaine to the lab. All received a Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience from the Simons Foundation!

8/2023: New funding! Nick received a Brain and Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Grant

3/2023: Welcome Damhyeon to the lab!! Damhyeon is a Neuroscience PhD student focused on neural circuits underlying dynamic reciprocal social interaction.

Also welcome Anthony! Anthony is a Neuroscience PhD student who will be working towards using xenografted human organoids to model human microcircuit function during behavior.

3/2023: Congrats to Claire for winning a travel award to NCUR!!

3/2023: Congrats to Nathan for being chosen as a finalist in this year’s Three Minute Thesis Competition!!

2/2023: Congrats to Claire for winning the Best Poster at UCUR!!

1/2023: Welcome Bethany to the lab! Bethany completed undergraduate studies at BYU and will be leading a project focused on the quantification of amyloid in the CNS of mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.

8/2022: Welcome Prakash to the lab! Prakash will be dissecting prefrontal circuits underlying social behavior and anxiety in Shank3 knockout mice.

7/2022: Welcome Nathan Johnston to the lab!! Nathan is a graduate student in the neurobiology department as well as a cyclist and climber. His project will focus on understanding how the PPC modulates distributed representations of spatial information during navigation.

3/2022: Welcome Hailee to the lab!! Hailee recently completed undergraduate studies at University of Utah and is focused on quantifying the heterogeneous composition of social ensembles as well as understanding circuit dysfunction underlying abnormal social behavior in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia.

9/2021: Nick presents on the state of emerging therapies for Alzheimer’s disease at WINO.

7/29/2021: We have an approved IACUC protocol!

7/01/2021: The lab is officially open for business!!

6/18/2021: Nick’s work in the Sohal Lab covered by Spectrum News: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/neural-network-captures-noisy-neurons-in-autism-mouse-model/

6/17/2021: The lab has a website!