The Pickrell Lab

In honor of decision day, we want to highlight Julia and Porter's grad school commitments. Julia will be pursuing her Neuroscience PhD at Virginia Tech and Porter will be pursuing her PhD in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Sciences at University of Vermont!

This review is part of our collaborative efforts with Morton lab to help our laboratory understand altered neurodevelopment trajectories in neurodegenerative diseases like Leigh syndrome.

Brooke's debut first-author paper, Cognitive and affective empathy in binge drinking during late adolescence, is now published! Congratulations, Brooke! Read the paper here .

Dr. Biswas presented his poster, "Impaired Complex I dysregulates neural/glial precursors and corpus callosum development revealing postnatal defects in Leigh syndrome mice", at the ASBMB annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Very grateful for our team of talented researchers!!

Sahitya's findings are outlined in the article with quotes included from Dr. Pickrell. This has been a very fruitful collaboration with Dr. Morton. Very exciting, Sahitya! Read the article here .

This was truly a team effort from all members of the laboratory. We found that loss of autophagy results in mitotic defects and errors due to TBK1 overactivation.

Sahtiya and lab members past and present found postnatal defects in LS stem cell pools that contribute to defects in neurogenesis and oligogenesis in collaboration with Morton lab!

Porter presents her poster at Cell Bio 2025 and enjoys Philadelphia.

Congratulations to our remarkable Dr. Kelly for passing his dissertation defense!

Brooke, Colin, and Julia present their posters at SfN and enjoy the MDS Parkinson's disease society satellite meeting in CA.

Congratulations to our amazing Dr. Bi swas for passing his dissertation defense!

Colin is awarded the Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award for the upcoming Neuroscience Meeting in San Diego, CA.

On July 31st, our undergraduate researcher Shambhavi presented her work she conducted over the summer. The project, titled "T-cell...

Pickrell Lab was awarded a 3 year grant with PI Dr. Matthew Buczynski to study the role that traumatic brain injury plays in...

This review examines TBK1 and its interactions between several adaptor proteins through cellular processes such as innate immune...

Sahitya gave a talk about his work and presented at the poster session for the EMBO Workshop, "Energy Balance in Metabolic Diseases", in...

The lab took a trip to Gatlinburg, TN and spent time hiking the Smoky Mountains. Chimney Tops Trail