Three more students have finished their PhDs: Marios Chatzigeorgiou, Marina Ezcurra and Victoria Butler. Their theses are all on the "student theses" page.

Congratulations to James Cregg on completion of his PhD!

More papers have been added to the site, including a study of sensory transduction in the PVD nociceptors.

Our worm tracking software is now downloadable from this site.

More papers have been added to the site, including our study of the salt taste sensory circuitry (with the Lockery lab), characterization of the novel sodium channel NCA-1 (with the Zhen lab), and the identification of a mutant with increased epidermal permeability to drugs (with the Hodgkin lab).

Three more theses (Mi Zhang, Andy Huang, and Laura Anne Hardaker) are now online. Check the "student theses" page.

Congratulations to Yoshinori Tanizawa for receiving an EMBO Long-term Fellowship and a Marie Curie Fellowship!

Our collaboration with the Bessereau, Richmond, and Horvitz labs on the nicotinic receptor trafficking protein UNC-50 has (finally!) been published. Check the papers page...

Congragulations to Mi Zhang for completing her PhD! Good luck at Harvard...

Our collaboration with the Rankin lab investigating the role of dopamine in context-dependent learning has just been published--check out the "papers", "mechanosensation", and "learning" pages.

Katie Kindt's thesis is now online. Check the "student theses" page.

Yoshinori Tanizawa, a new postdoc, has arrived from the Mori lab in Nagoya. Check out the "people" page.

Congratulations to Katie Kindt for receiving the Outstanding Dissertation Award in Biomedical Sciences from UCSD, 2006-2007!

Congratulations to Ithai Rabinowitch for receiving a Bikura Fellowship from the Israel Science Foundation!

Our collaboration with the Patapoutian lab showing a role for TRPA-1 in mechanosensation has just been published--check out the "papers" and "mechanosensation" pages.

Congratulations to Ev Yemini for receiving a Gates Cambridge Scholarship!

Congratulations to Robyn Branicky for receiving an EMBO Long-term Fellowship!