News | The Elaine Hsiao Lab @ UCLA — Microbes, Guts & Brains

2025-05-07

Congrats to Taka on being selected for a fellowship on UCLA's NIH-NIDDK Gastroenterology training grant!

2025-04-24

Congrats to Guli and Kaden on winning a poster prize from GLMC symposium!

2025-03-24

Congrats to Lewis on being awarded the 2025 Schweizer Professional Development Award!

2025-03-13

Congrats to Angela on accepting to join the Neuro Ph.D. program at Duke University!

2025-02-27

Congrats to both Pablo & Jie for accepting offers to join UC Davis' Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology PhD program this Fall!

2025-02-17

Congrats to Steph on her review "The microbiome as a modulator of neurological health across the maternal-offspring interface" out in JCI!

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2025-02-12

Congrats to Noah on accepting an offer to join USC's PhD program this Fall!

2025-02-07

Congratulations to Lewis for being selected to give a talk at the Neuroimmunology Gordon conference and winning a travel award to attend the International Society for Serotonin Research conference

2025-01-01

Congrats to Taka on his review "Microbiota-neuroepithelial signaling across the gut-brain axis" out now in Nature Reviews Microbiology

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2024-12-19

Congrats to Francis on his Spotlight article in Cell Chemical Biology!

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2024-12-16

Former Masters student Michael Quicho accepted a position in the in vivo pharmacology team at Abbvie!

2024-12-11

Former Masters student Hannah Espey will be heading off to Stanford for PA school

2024-12-05

Angela won the UCLA Duval Scholarship for Undergraduate Research!

2024-11-25

Elaine is named among the world's most influential researchers

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2024-10-11

Lab alum Greg accepted a postdoctoral position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory!

2024-07-23

Ezgi accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position in Microbiome + Health in the Dept of Nutrition and Food Science at LSU!

2024-07-17

Arlene was just accepted to UC Davis Health Professions postbac program, a key step on her path to vet school

2024-06-04

Sabeen was awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship!

2024-04-30

Dr. Coley-O'Rourke successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis!

2024-04-04

Elena and Lewis received 1st & 2nd place for their posters at the GLMC symposium!

2024-04-01

Ezgi is selected to give an oral presentation at American Society of Nutrition meeting!

2024-03-05

Dr. Kristie Yu successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis!

2024-02-21

Lab alum Jon Lynch was awarded the Sloan Fellowship, a prestigious early career faculty award!

2024-01-09

Lewis was awarded a F31 fellowship from The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases!

2023-12-21

Guli wrote a chapter for "The Gut-Brain Axis" book.

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2023-09-22

Taka is selected for the inaugural cohort of the Bioscientists of Tomorrow (BoT) Program!

2023-08-17

Elena's News & Views article on recent ASD microbiome meta-analysis study.

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2023-08-02

Jon is quoted in news article discussing using a microfluidic device to isolate new strains of Turi.

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2023-06-08

Congrats to Elena on being awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship!

2023-05-22

Dr. Kelly Jameson successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis!

2023-05-03

Dr. Gregory Lum successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis!

2023-04-12

Greg's paper is highlighted by NewScientist magazine.

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2023-03-07

Elaine is named a top woman in academic entrepreneurship.

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2023-02-15

UCLA Microbiome Center, directed by Elaine, is launched and will focus on microbiome-gut-brain research.

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2022-12-07

Celine will be receiving a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association!

2022-11-21

Elena is selected to present in a symposium at the Society for Biological Psychiatry meeting next year!

2022-11-15

Elaine is named among the world's most influential researchers in the sciences!

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2022-07-13

Michael is recognized for his exceptional performance as a TA!

2022-06-29

Elaine is named a Blavatnik Laureate in Life Sciences!

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2022-06-17

Congrats to Greg on being awarded a Whitcome fellowship!

2022-06-11

Hannah is named 2022 Distinguished TA for her excellence in teaching!

2022-06-09

Dr. Geoffrey Pronovost successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis!

2022-06-03

Congrats to Kelly on being awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship!

2022-05-27

Congrats to Kristie for being awarded a Whitcome fellowship!

2022-05-20

Big congrats to Jon for accepting his new assistant professorship position at Johns Hopkins University!

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2022-04-11

Congrats to Ezgi on being selected to give an oral presentation at the American Society of Nutrition annual meeting and also as a finalist for the Nutrition Translation Award!

2022-04-06

Elaine is named an Early Career Innovator in Science by Takeda and New York Academy of Sciences!

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2022-04-06

Congratulations to Ezgi for winning the Sue Bodine Postdoctoral Travel Award!

2022-01-22

Check out Lewis and Guli's comprehensive review of the gut microbiome as a regulator of neuroimmunity in Annual Review of Immunology!

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2022-01-22

Congrats to Kristie on being awarded a Keystone Symposium Scholarship!

2022-01-01

Huge congrats to Helen for starting her new assistant professorship position at University of Minnesota Medical School! We miss you!

2021-12-20

Ezgi's shares a highlight and perspective in Cell Reports Medicine on exciting work from the Gratten group

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2021-11-26

Big congrats to Guli and Kristie for closing out a special issue of Science with their review on gut-brain signaling in inflammation!

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2021-11-10

Way to go Lewis and Guli for leading UCLA’s Immunology in Neuroscience Affinity Group!

2021-11-08

Congrats to Kelly for winning a Keystone conference travel award and being selected for oral presentation on her exciting work!

2021-09-10

Congrats to Sabeen on being awarded a UCLA Hyde Fellowship!

2021-08-26

Congrats to Anisha for winning an undergraduate research scholarship!

2021-08-12

Congrats to Erika for being named an MSD scholar!

2021-08-05

Excited to share this work by Christine, Ping, Geoff and colleagues-- a fascinating example of how environmental factors interact synergistically to alter the gut microbiome and impair hippocampal function and cognitive behavior in mice.

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2021-07-21

Check out Elena new article on roles for the gut microbiome in mediating effects of early life nutrition on neurodevelopment, especially in the context of the global prevalence of malnutrition.

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2021-06-30

Way to go Helen on winning the Suzanne Eaton award!

2021-06-08

Congrats to Greg and Kristie on winning Whitcome fellowships!

2021-05-28

Congrats to Elena on leading research with Annie Gupta and Emeran Mayer on microbial predictors of early life stress!

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2021-05-27

Congrats to Grace for winning the Dean's Prize for Undergraduate Research!

2021-05-24

Dr. Christine Olson successfully defends her doctoral thesis!

2021-05-18

Check out Kristie's deep dive on effects of the microbiome on circuits for feeding behavior

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2021-05-10

Excited to share Helen's new paper on interactions between the microbiome and antidepressant exposure during pregnancy

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2021-04-29

Guli knocked it outta the park (lab) with her snapshot of the gut-brain axis!

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2021-04-13

Elaine receives the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Mentorship award, an amazing honor!

2020-09-23

Big congrats to Helen and lab members on their new paper on effects of the maternal microbiome on fetal neurodevelopment!

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2020-06-05

Congrats to Kristie for winning a Whitcome fellowship!

2020-06-03

Congrats to Christine and Geoff for each winning a Dissertation Year Fellowship!

2020-06-02

Check out a Christine and Greg’s highlight of “ester-ordinary” work by the Turnbaugh lab

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2020-05-13

Check out Ping’s highlight on awesome work by the Eggan lab

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2020-05-07

Honored to now be supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders, for our work on the microbiome and epilepsy!

2020-04-09

Check out Kelly, Christine and Sabeen’s new perspective piece on microbiome-neuronal signaling!

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2020-03-30

Big congrats to Sabeen for winning an honorable mention for the NSF Graduate Fellowship!

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2020-03-30

Big congrats to Elena on being awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship!

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2020-03-23

Congrats to Jon on his postdoctoral fellowship from the Ford Foundation!

2020-03-17

Way to go, Ping, on her fellowship from the W. Garfield Weston Foundation!

2020-03-06

Congrats to Helen on her new K99 award from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

2020-02-01

Check out Ping's new Spotlight of exciting work by Fan and colleagues!

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2019-09-26

Check out Jon's new article on Microbiomes as Sources of Emergent Host Phenotypes!

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2019-09-16

Congrats to Geoff on his F31 fellowship from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development!

2019-09-02

Congrats to Thomas, the lab and collaborators on our new paper on how serotonin regulates bacterial colonization in the gut!

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2019-08-08

Congrats to Christine on her F31 fellowship from National Institute of Aging!

2019-08-06

Congrats to Kelly on her News & Views article for Nature Medicine on new findings from the Turnbaugh and Balskus groups on microbes that metabolize L-dopa

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2019-07-11

Glad to contribute a diverse voice in Neuron on important challenges for the next generation of neuroscience!

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2019-05-23

Congrats to Geoff for winning best poster at UCLA’s Bioscience Innovation Day

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2019-04-29

Excited to have our recent KD paper selected for UCLA’s Life Sciences Excellence Award for Outstanding Research

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2019-04-16

Honored to be able to share our perspective in Immunity on the importance of neuroimmune research in the next quarter century!

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2019-01-28

Excited to see our work highlighted in the New York Times

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2019-01-18

Check out this commentary from Helen Vuong on new work by Martina Sgritta, Costa-Mattioli and colleagues.

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2019-01-15

Happy to share Geoff's new review on Perinatal Interactions between the Microbiome, Immunity, and Neurodevelopment

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2018-12-05

Extremely honored to join the Chan Zuckerberg Neurodegeneration Network and for support from the Ben Barres Early Career Award!

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2018-10-23

Congrats to Elaine on being named a NYSCF Robertson Investigator in Neuroscience!

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2018-09-10

Congrats to Helen and David on their new paper on the gut microbiota and morphine dependence with Dr. Anna Taylor!

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2018-06-28

Glad to see new highlights on our research from Science, Science Translational Medicine and Cell Host and Microbe

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2018-06-27

Happy to see PNAS highlighting our paper on the microbiome and ketogenic diet.

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2018-06-05

Congrats to Kelly on being awarded the UCLA Hyde fellowship!

2018-06-05

Catch Kelly's highlight on microbiome, serotonin and anxiety, featuring work by Ger Clarke and John Cryan

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2018-05-24

Check out new research from the lab on how the microbiome mediates the protective effects of the ketogenic diet!

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2017-10-17

Congrats to Geoff on his Immunity Preview describing work from the laboratory of Dr. Lora Hooper

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2017-10-16

Honored for support from the Packard Foundation that will enable us to pursue exciting new research on microbiota-gut-brain interactions!

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2017-07-13

Grateful for support from the Simons Foundation and Klingenstein Fund that will enable us to advance a new research project!

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2017-06-28

Thanks to the Brain Research Foundation for supporting our research

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2017-06-21

Congrats to Geoff and Christine on being awarded UCLA predoctoral fellowships!

2017-04-14

Honored to now be supported by DoD's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program

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2017-03-08

Congrats to Helen, Jessica and Thomas on their new article on the microbiome and host behavior!

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2017-02-07

Congrats to Thomas and Christine on their new review on microbiome and neuroimmunity in Nature Neuroscience!

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2017-02-07

Congrats to Helen on her new review on microbiome contributions to autism spectrum disorder in Biological Psychiatry!

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2016-07-26

Check out our microbial medalists for the equestrian event of the Microbial Olympics.

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2016-05-12

Watch Microbiomes Explained, a fun collab with Ph.D. comics.

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2016-02-26

Honored to now be sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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2015-10-14

Shout out to our serotonin findings in Nature News

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2015-06-23

The New York Times highlights our work in "Can the bacteria in your gut explain your mood?"

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2015-06-09

National Geographic names Elaine a 2015 Emerging Explorer

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2015-05-04

Tune in to our interview on the American Microbiome Institute podcast

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2015-04-10

Congrats to the lab and our collaborators on our new paper in Cell

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2014-01-09

Dr. Francis Collins features our work in his NIH Director's blog!

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