Jan 2025
Amy gives a talk at Winter Brain, scientific session “Glial Biology in Injury & Repair of the Nervous System”
Had a blast with session mates Drs. Mayssa Mokalled, Valeria Cavalli, and Cedric Geoffroy!
Jan 2025
Amy gives a talk at Drexel University.
Thank you Neurobiology & Anatomy for your kind invitation!
Dec 2024
Finally got in the departmental picture with wonderful colleagues and students!
May 2024
Congrats to Theo for getting a Summer Research Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research!
May 2024
Congrats to Matin for getting a postdoctoral fellowship from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation!
Pictured here giving a talk at the Kentucky Spinal Cord & Head Injury Research Trust Symposium in Louisville, KY.
Apr 2024
Ellie finishing her undergraduate research strong by presenting her work at Posters at the Capitol in Frankfort, KY, and the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Long Beach, CA!
Nov 2023
Amy co-chairs a minisymposium on mechanisms of CNS injury, at Society for Neuroscience meeting, Washington D.C.
Speakers (left to right): Profs. Dario Bonanomi, Andrea Tedeschi-Chair, Jeff Huang, Amy Chen, Valentina Cigliola, Jae Lee.
Wonderful science and attendance!
Oct 2023
Amy gives a talk at Neural Stem Cell Institute.
Thank you for the opportunity to share my work and interact with inquisitive trainees!
May 2023
Ellie gives a lightening talk at the Kentucky Spinal Cord & Head Injury Research Trust Symposium.
May 2023
Tuoxin gives a lightening talk at the Kentucky Spinal Cord & Head Injury Research Trust Symposium.
Apr 2023
Anna organized the first Chen Lab Jeopardy!
Who won again? It wasn’t Amy.
Apr 2023
Congratulations to Megan on successfully defending her Master’s thesis!
Only champagne was spilled.
Apr 2023
Amy chairs a session and gives a talk at the International Symposium for Neural Regeneration meeting in Stevenson, WA.
Mar 2023
Amy chairs a session and gives a talk at the American Society for Neurochemistry meeting in Lexington, KY.
Matin and Tuoxin gave poster presentations.
Feb 2023
Amy gives a talk at University of Louisville.
Thank you, Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center & Dept of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, for having me!
Jan 2023
Amy gives a talk at UC Los Angeles.
Thank you, Integrative Center for Neural Repair, for the warm invitation!
Nov 2022
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting 2022,
San Diego, CA.
Nov 2022
Society for Neuroscience meeting 2022: Tuoxin presents his work on astrocyte-immune cell interaction. Got high traffic of audience!
Nov 2022
Society for Neuroscience meeting 2022: Matin presents her work on astrocyte migration; couldn’t leave poster for water because someone was always there!
Nov 2022
Society for Neuroscience meeting 2022: Wonderful to see everyone in person again, in beautiful San Diego!
Aug 2022
Second publication from the lab this month! Congrats Team!
“Capacity of Astrocytes to Promote Axon Growth in the Injured Mammalian CNS”
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Aug 2022
A collaboration between the Chen Lab and the Goldberg Lab is in press! Congrats Team!
“LZK-dependent Stimulation of Astrocyte Reactivity Promotes Corticospinal Axon Sprouting”
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
May 2022
Proud of my team for presenting four posters at The 27th Kentucky Spinal Cord & Head Injury Research Trust Symposium (KSCHIRT), Louisville, KY.
My first in person meeting since 2020!
May 2022
Overlooking the Ohio River in Louisville, KY.
May 2022
Tuoxin presents poster at The 27th KSCHIRT Symposium, Louisville, KY.
May 2022
Matin presents poster at The 27th KSCHIRT Symposium, Louisville, KY.
May 2022
Megan’s poster — love the energy of my students! The 27th KSCHIRT Symposium, Louisville, KY.
May 2022
Anna and Lauren present poster at The 27th KSCHIRT Symposium, Louisville, KY.
Apr 2022
Lauren gives poster presentation (and autographs?) at The 16th Showcase of Undergraduate Scholars, Lexington, KY.
Apr 2022
Matin presents poster at The 47th Naff Symposium, Lexington, KY.
Jan 2022
Amy gives a talk at the International Symposium on Neural Regeneration; honored to be speaking alongside leaders in the field. See you all in person next year?
Aug 2021
Megan dons white coat to formally join the lab as a graduate student. Let the training begin!
Aug 2021
Center news: Dr. Edward D. Hall retires. Thank you Ed for your significant contributions to the center and CNS injury research. We’ll miss you!
Jan 2021
A review co-authored with the Gensel Lab is accepted for publication in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. A wonderful collaboration!
“The Role of Neuroinflammation in the Response to Spinal Cord Injury”
Nov 2020
Lab meeting in the age of social distancing.
Will joined as the lab manager; Megan joined as a graduate student; Anna joined as an undergraduate researcher.
Sep 2020
Summer lilies on campus.
Research Resumption Plan enters Phase III.
Jun 2020
Lab building resumes in Phase II of Research Resumption Plan at UKy.
Apr 2020
Spring has arrived on campus.
Mar 2020
Work from home begins due to COVID-19.
This tree needs a trim as much as I need a haircut during social isolation!
Jan 2020
A full house and lively discussion among Drs. Silver and Sofroniew (on stage), and the audience at ISNR on how to design a scar-targeted therapy for spinal cord injury. (photo by M. Stenger)
Jan 2020
The 18th International Symposium on Neural Regeneration (ISNR) in beautiful Pacific Grove, CA.
Jan 2020
Winter wonderland on campus.
Jan 03, 2020
In the beginning there is one.
Chen Lab opens in the Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC) at the University of Kentucky. Can’t wait to see it grow!