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.