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Congratulations to Jasper and Alexsia for their Ph.D. acceptances!
CANDY Lab alumni Jasper Laca will be starting his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Southern California and Alexsia Johnson will be starting her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of South Florida! We are proud of you and can’t wait to see what you both accomplish!
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CANDY Lab obtains internal grant from UCLA RAP!
This grant will help support the WAVES project!
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Congratulations to Katie Bessette for earning a Travel Award to the 2026 Molecular Psychiatry Association!
Katie will be presenting exciting data from the lab’s R01 in talk entitled: “Depressed Adolescents with and without a History of Suicide Attempt Differ in Glutamatergic Responses to Stress: An Ultra-High Field Imaging Study”
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Congratulations to Eden for starting a new role at CHLA!
We will miss you Eden!
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Congratulations to Anu, Mel, and Shiyin for presenting at SfN!
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Big congratulations to Anurima Mummaneni and Shiyin Liu for obtaining support from the highly competitive Brain and Behavioral Development T32!
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Big congratulations to Melanie Dratva on receiving a highly competitive UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship grant!
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Big congratulations to Melanie Dratva and Shiyin Liu on receiving UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship grants!
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Congratulations to our research assistants, Eden and Lily, who will be presenting their honors theses at the UCLA Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase!
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Congratulations to our research assistants, Annie and Eden, who will be presenting their independent research projects at the UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference (PURC)!