People


Tristano, Jeremiah and Olivier


2008: graduate student Tristano Pancani, laboratory technician Jeremiah Phelps and Olivier Thibault. In front of the electrophysiology setups.

 


People 2009


2009: in the back: rotating student Lindsay Carter, Olivier, Tristano. Front: senior laboratory technician Katie Anderson, and Dunbar High School student Bethany Finley (MSTC).

 


People 2011


2010:
Dunbar High School student (MSTC) Douglas Shaw, Olivier, Dr. Tristrano Pancani, Katie



People 2011

 

2011: Bethany, Trevor Krovak (Dunbar High School student), Doug and Olivier

 


Tristano, Jeremiah and Olivier

 

2012: Katie, Tristano, Olivier, rotating graduate student Brian Hodge, and laboratory technician Chris DeMoll.


Lab members

 

2015: Graduate student Shaniya Maimaiti, Olivier, Graduate student Hilaree Frazier, Research analyst Katie Anderson, and rotating Graduate student Peter Hecker.


Lab members

 

2017: Dr. Chris Gant, Katie Anderson, Dr. Shaniya Maimaiti (who defended July 2017)!, Olivier, Graduate students Adam Ghoweri and Hilaree Frazier, Summer ASPET SURF student Grant Fox.


2018

 

2018: Chris Gant, Ruei-Lung Lin, Hilaree Frazier, Olivier Thibault, Katie Anderson and Adam Ghoweri. Lunch to welcome Ruei-Lung to the lab, Local Taco, Boom.

Thibaul lab summer 2018 (2)

Summer 2018 SURF student Nini Vatthanaphone and incoming IBS student Thomas Ujas joined us to do some science. Went to lunch with the group at Girls,girls, girls, Burritos.


Lunch to celebrate

Just celebrating Katie's 10 year anniversary in the lab, Ruei-Lung's first year, and our third Intranasal Insulin paper! Yeah! Team Thibault!


Summer lab pic 2019


Another summertime (2019) lunch, this time at La Madeleine. Saying good bye to Sophia Li (undergradute student) and rotating IBS student Meagan Medley.

Summer

Summer 2020: Dr. Hilaree Frazier, Ruei-Lung Lin, Sami Case, Katie Anderson and Adam Ghoweri (from left to right). Olivier in the middle.

Social distancing on campus after our lab meeting and lunch. We celebrated four (4, yes) accepted manuscritps this summer and felt good about team work!

We also welcomed rotating student Sami Case in the fun.



Summer

Fall 2020: Dr. Adam O. Ghoweri gets "hooded" as best we can during this time.  No one got hurt in the making and taking of this picture.



New Student!

April 2021: We welcome Sami Case to the team. He has been working with us on/ off for about a year now but officially joined our lab recently



SURF and Diabetes and obesity research priority area scholar

August 2021: From left to right, Dalton Riley (Diabetes and Obesity research priority area research scholar; 2nd year medical student at UK), Sami case, Katie Anderson, Dr. Hilaree Frazier, Zak Dairi (SURF Junior from Michigan state University), and Olivier Thibault. Dalton and Zak each presented a poster on their work imaging the insulin receptor in the brain (rats and humans). Ruei-Lung is missing in this picture (Iris was not feeling well :().


SURF and Diabetes and obesity research priority area scholar

July 2022: From left to right, Nick Trosper (Diabetes and Obesity research priority area research scholar; 2nd year medical student at UK), Darin Vaughan MS summer student, Jackie Rhinehart (new lab technician!), Sami Case, Ruei-Lung Lin, Dr. Hilaree Frazier and Olivier Thibault.


Hilaree moves on

August 2022: Hilaree has accepted a second postdoctoral position with Dr. Van Eldik in the Sanders Brown Center on Aging. We say good bye after 7 years with a Local Taco lunch and a drink.

Dr. Sami L. Case Celebration

April 2023: Dr. Sami L. Case successfully defends his work investigating Calcium-related changes in S1 neurons of the aging C57Bl6/J mouse, so we went to Le Deauville to celebrate! We also take this opportunity to welcome Nicholas Wright (Research Analyst) and Sophiya Sims (Graduate Student) to the lab.


New lab members!

August 2023: We welcome Leopoldine Galopin to the lab since Jackie moved to Portland! Ruei-Lung, Leo, Olivier, Sohiya and Nicholas from left to right. Oh, and thanks to RL for the cool evil special effects anime glasses where I learned about my eigth-grader syndrome and Miku!

Rotation student

October 2023: The gang went to lunch to thank Katie Pauss (rotating IBS student) for spending time in our lab.

Summer 2024

June 2024: We are happy to welcome Dr. Ting-Hsuan Lu, a new postdoc who will help with overexpression of insulin receptors on astrocytes, and who will begin efforts developing a new nanosensor. We are also happy to have a summer research fellow in the lab, Mr. Tesfamichael Hailu, who comes through the Diabetes and Obesity Research Priority Area.

In order, Olivier, Leopoldine, Nicholas, Sophiya, Ruei-Lung, Tesfa and Ting!

Team awesome

 

That's who we are! (design by Katie).

 


Katie and Scratch

 

Katie wins a signed basketball (Calipari), free tickets to a game and a huge hug from our Wildcat mascot Scratch. Picture is from 2010 but that's OK because "Scratch"!!!