2020
August – Official opening of the Watanabe Lab!
November – Faraz Fardi (undergraduate student) joins the lab!
2021
January – Undergraduate researcher Faraz is selected as a UROP fellow based on his proposed research project!
April – Meliea Chu (undergraduate student), Andy Pin (undergraduate student), and Kaori Shiraiwa (lab technician) join the lab!
June – Undergraduate researchers Meliea and Andy are selected as UROP fellows!
September -Yuan-Chen Tsai (postdoctoral fellow) joins the lab!
October– Aya Galal Salem (undergraduate student) joins the lab!
2022
January – Undergraduate researchers Faraz and Aya selected as UROP fellows based on their proposed research projects!
April – Hajime Ozaki (postdoctoral fellow) joins the lab!
May – Momoko received the SOM New Investigator Faculty Research Award.
June – Faraz graduates and undergraduate researchers Kenneth, Bret, and Christine join the lab!
August – The Watanabe Lab received the RECODE award from the NSF!
2023
April – Yuan-Chen Tsai is awarded for a FRAXA Fellowship!
April – Undergraduate researcher Caleb joins the lab!
May – Aya receives 1st place for the UROP symposium under Innovations in Medicine!
September – Ruben and Briana join the lab!
December – The Watanabe Lab won second place for the annual Anatomy & Neurobiology Door Decorating Contest!
December – Hajime got awarded the CIRM Scholars Comprehensive Research Training Grant!