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Summer lab lunch at Dinosaur BBQ (6-3-26)
Lab lunch and party (4-6-26)
Viviana and Berra all smiles about exciting new data. Photo courtesy of Grossman Center at Columbia. (4-6-26)
Ishmail and Yuki discussing social behavior and communication in naked mole-rats. Photo courtesy of Grossman Center at Columbia. (4-6-26)
Alex prepping optogenetic brain manipulation experiments to study pain. Photo courtesy of Grossman Center at Columbia. (4-6-26)
Abdus-Saboor lab retreat at Mohonk Mountain House (10-17-25)
Ishmail and lab members at Lake Mohonk during lab retreat. (10-17-25)
Abdus-Saboor lab retreat, looking down from the Skytop Tower at Mohonk Mountain House. (10-17-25)
Abdus-Saboor and Abraira labs joint party at ZI. Celebrating Ish and Vicky being awarded tenure. (7-24-25)
Ishmail and Wes discussing hippocampal-dependent social memory in naked mole-rats. Photo courtesy of Brain Research Foundation. (7-29-25)
Final lab meeting and lunch before a summer break. (6-24-25)
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Sasha showing Ishmail DRG neurons. Photo courtesy of Charles Sykes/AP Images for HHMI. (Jan 2025)
Ishmail working hard to convince Bella and Franck Polleux at the annual ZI Science Festival.(9-18-24)
Dinner at Ocean Prime in Midtown with lab members (and significant others) celebrating graduations and awards. (7-12-24)
Enjoying sunset on the beach at lab retreat in the Hamptons (6-19-24)
Lab retreat in the Hamptons (6-19-24)
Lab lunch and party (6-12-24)
Ishmail discussing science with Ryan, Briana, and Preston. Photo courtesy of Sasha Maslov for Quanta Magazine. (4-4-24)
Ishmail and Preston playing chess in the lab. Photo courtesy of Sasha Maslov for Quanta Magazine. (4-4-24)
Ishmail receiving the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience, delivered by SfN President Oswald Steward. (11-13-23)
Ishmail and lab members (and friends) celebrating Ishmail’s Young Investigator Award at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting (11-13-23)
Ishmail and lab members after Ishmail delivered the SFNova Lecture at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting (11-11-23)
Lab retreat at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. (10-14-23)
Lab retreat at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. (10-14-23)
Lab members and cows during retreat at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. (10-14-23)
Ishmail and undergrad Leah playing chess in the lab. (7-11-23)
Ishmail with the lab’s two Simons Junior Fellows, Andre and Anastasia. Photo courtesy of Christian Luscher. (3-13-23)
Hanging out in the lab’s open interaction space. Photo courtesy of John Abbott for Zuckerman Institute. (12-15-22)
Amusing discussion in the lab. Photo courtesy of John Abbott for Zuckerman Institute. (12-15-22)
Greek food for lab dinner, celebrating wins (11-7-22)
Ishmail with Richard, Dmitriy, and Rudy discussing our science. Photo courtesy of Sam Hollenshead for ZI (10-25-22)
Lab outing to the “Life of the Neuron” exhibit in Chelsea Market. (5-23-22)
Lab members (and Institute Director Rui Costa) celebrating Ishmail’s birthday after lab meeting. (5-19-22)
Sporting pink together in the lab (3-23-22)
Lab surprised Ishmail with a cake on news of the Pew award. (3-21-22)
One moment of rest for Bella in our space at ZI. Boxes are on their way from Penn to Columbia for the lab move. (7-16-21)
Bianca and Dmitriy came by to say hello to Ish on his first day. They would all go on to run HHMI labs! (7-16-21)
Pandemic mode: outdoors and masked lunch (3-10-21)
Pandemic lab meeting; lab closed. (3-23-20)
Fun times in the lab, early 2020, just before the pandemic closed everything.
Ishmail and Will developing an automated pipeline for measuring mouse pain. Photo courtesy of University of Pennsylvania. (Oct 2019)
Lab at the Department Retreat at Bartram Gardens. (10-10-19)
Lab game night (9-30-2019)
Lab’s one year anniversary (7-18-19)
Bella and Lucie leading a lab tour and hands-on demonstration for a local West Philadelphia school. (7-18-19)
Lab dinner before holiday break (12-17-18)
First lab lunch; Han Dynasty of course. (9-6-2018)
Lab is one month old. Will and Leah setting up optogenetic placed-preference behavior experiments. (8-15-2018)