October 2017:
  • The Uribe lab starts to set up on Rice's campus, with help from Aquaneering installation team to get the fish rack system flowing! Eileen Singleton and Sarah Downing join the lab.

January 2018:
  • The Uribe lab got it's first rotation students and 4 new undergrads through the BIOC research course in Biosciences at Rice!
  • Dr. Uribe publishes a manuscript detailing the role of the vitamin A derivative Retinoic Acid during neural crest migration in the journal Developmental Biology! Uribe, R.A.*, Hong, S.S. and Bronner, M.E.  Retinoic Acid temporally orchestrates colonization of the gut by vagal neural crest cells. (2018).Developmental Biology,Jan 1;433(1):17-32

February 2018:
  • Dr. Uribe gives the first invited talk for the Uribe lab at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) Seminar Series, Rice University, Houston TX.  

March 2018:
  • Our first Graduate students join the lab: Adam Howard and Phillip Baker! Welcome!
  • Dr. Uribe delivers an invited seminar at the Department of Genetics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX. 

May 2018:
  • Dr. Uribe delivers an invited seminar at the Pediatric Research Center at the McGovern Medical School, UT Health, Houston TX.

June 2018
  • The lab welcomes a visiting summer undergrad from Carnegie-Mellon, Jessa Westheimer! Welcome!
  • The lab welcomes entering graduate student, Rodrigo Ibarra, welcome!
  • The Uribe lab published a paper with collaborators on neural crest cell cycle occupancy dynamics: Rajan SG, Gallik KL, Monaghan JR, Uribe RA, Bronner ME, Saxena A. (2018). Tracking neural crest cell cycle progression in vivo. Genesis. e23214. https://doi.org/ 10.1002/dvg.23214, in the journal Genesis!
  • The Uribe lab officially joins Twitter!! Follow us under the handle UribeLabRice ​

​July 2018
  • The Uribe lab published it's first review article about vagal neural crest cells and it's lesser-known derivatives in Developmental Biology! doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.07.004

August 2018
  • Congrats to graduate student Adam Howard on winning a Best Poster Presentation during the BioSciences Symposium Poster Session!​
  • Dr. Uribe was an invited speaker at the 1st Annual Antone Jacobson Memorial Symposium, Molecular Biosciences Dept. UT Austin
  • The Uribe lab welcomes rotation students Joe Tolar and Adeline Supandy! Welcome!

September 2018
  • The Uribe lab welcomes a new Research Technician, Martin Cheramie. Welcome aboard!

October 2018
  • Dr. Uribe was a featured speaker at the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Conference, San Antonio, in the NextGen STEM: The Future of Regenerative Biology session, organized by the Society for Developmental Biology​
  • The Uribe lab welcomes rotation students Liz Li and Joshua Moore!
November 2018
  • ​Dr. Uribe obtained grant funding from the John S. Dunn Foundation to perform novel enteric nervous system research in zebrafish with collaborators!
January 2019
  • The Uribe lab welcomes rotation student Rodrigo Ibarra and Siqi Du! Welcome!
  • Congrats to graduate student member Adam Howard on delivering a great seminar during the Developmental Genetics Seminar Club, MD Anderson!​
  • Our zebrafish aquatic facility, by Aquaneering, has successfully been fully relocated and expanded into our temporary home in the Dell Butcher Hall. Fish are healthy and breeding again after a brief break.

February 2019
  • Our lab's first preprint on characterization of the maturing larval zebrafish enteric neuropil is out now in BioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/555094v1
  • The lab welcomes two new graduate students to join the lab from the department of BioSciences: Joshua Moore and Rodrigo Ibarra, Welcome!

March 2019
  • Congrats to graduate student Adam Howard on winning an IBB Travel Award, to support his summer conference endeavors! Way to go!
  • Congratulations to Visiting Undergraduate Scholar Jessa Westheimer on being named a Choose Development! Fellow through the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB)! To read about the Choose Development! Program please see http://sdbonline.org/uploads/files/ChooseDevelopmentScientia.pdf​
April 2019
  • Congratulations to Sarah Downing on being selected among a small Rice University cohort to participate in the RUSP-Rice Undergraduate Scholars Program!! This will help her navigate the steps into a research career! https://ccl.rice.edu/students/undergraduate-research/rice-undergraduate-scholars-program-rusp/
  • Dr. Uribe gives an invited talk at the Digestive Diseases Center (DDC) GI Forum Seminar Series, Baylor College of Medicine! Thanks to the gracious hosts and warm welcome!​
  • Congratulations to Phillip Baker and Ashley Tsang for our collaborative work with the Shared Equipment Authority (SEA) EM expert Matt Meyer, which characterizes the maturing zebrafish larval myenteric plexus, now in press at Scientific Reports!
May 2019
  • Our paper, "Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural analysis of the maturing larval zebrafish enteric nervous system reveals the formation of a neuropil pattern", is now online at Scientific Reports! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43497-9
  • Congrats to graduate students Phillip Baker and Adam Howard on winning Society for Developmental Biology Travel Awards, to support their attendance to the annual SDB conference!
  • Congratulations to graduate students Phillip Baker and Adam Howard on becoming a PhD Candidate!
June 2019
  • The lab welcome summer students Jessa Westheimer and Anna Young to the lab!
July 2019
  • Dr. Uribe delivered an invited talk at the Pediatric Gastroenterology Research Workshop, Baylor College of Medicine & Texas Children's Hospital. Thank you for the wonderful interactions and important discussions!
  • The lab welcomes visiting high school student, Karolyn Raj! Welcome!​
  • Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) Choose Development! Fellows Jessa Westheimer (Uribe lab) and Missy Lollis (Wagner lab) are showcased in a Rice University News Article!  Check it out!: http://news.rice.edu/2019/07/15/choose-development-aims-to-increase-diversity-in-developmental-biology/
  • Our lab is now co-funded, in collaboration with researchers at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, for neuroblastoma and neural crest research! Thank you to the American Cancer Society for funding!
August 2019
  • Jessa presented her summer research project (which she crafted entirely herself!) at the annual IBB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium event! This was part of her SDB Choose Development! Work! She did a great job and had a stupendous summer with her bench mentor, Grad student Josh Moore!
  • Graduate Student Phillip Baker was selected for a 2019 Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Award for his research efforts at Rice University in the Biosciences Department! Congrats!!!
September 2019
  • The lab welcomes our new Research Specialist, James Tallman! Welcome to the lab!​
  • Congrats to graduate students Joshua Moore and Rodrigo Ibarra on very successfully passing their first committee meeting!​