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 ​

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​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