Lab News

May 2026 - Parekh lab axe throwing outing to celebrate a productive semester.

May 2026 - Dr. Parekh and Alexa Dinklang attend the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) annual meeting in NYC. Alexa presented a poster.

April 2026 - Aryan Bangad wins 2nd place (out of nearly 100 participants) in the URSA poster competition. His worked was judged by academic and industry professionals.

March 2026 - Celebrating Austin Csiszar’s acceptance to the Behavioral Neuroscience PhD Program at University of Colorado Boulder.

December 2025 - Annual holiday party and white elephant gift exchange with members from Eagle, Gu and Lakshminarasimhan labs.

November 2025 - Ausin Csiszar and Alexa Dinklang present posters at the ABRCMS annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas

October 2025 - Dr. Parekh is awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator grant from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) to support lab projects. Read more here.

August 2025 - MACS lab undergraduates present posters at the SPUR symposium - Aryan Bangad wins a Provost’s Office Award

June 2025 - Dr. Parekh attends and Chairs a panel at the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS) annual meeting in Tromso, Norway

May 2025 - Pranavi Maddipatla graduates with her Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience and stays on as an ACN Masters student with the lab

April 2025 - Dr. Parekh wins a Travel Fellowship Award to attend and present at the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) annual meeting in Toronto, Canada

March 2025 - The lab receives funding through an R00 award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Read more here.

February 2025 - Review article published in the journal, Neurbiology of Stress

December 2024 - Holiday white elephant gift exchange

August 2024 - The Parekh lab officially opens on the third floor of BSB!