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Ko Awarded 2025 Bill Hall Prize
Duke Neurobiology awarded the Bill Hall Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Research to recent graduate Tiffany Ko of Goldstein Lab on Friday, September 5. The annual award recognizes one or two senior Neurobiology graduate students who have made impactful contributions to scientific knowledge.

Congratulations, Tiffany!

 

May 2025

Tiffany Ko defended her Neurobiology dissertation “Regulation of Olfactory Epithelial Cell Fate Determination by Polycomb Repressive Complex 2”  in March!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 2024

  • Goldstein Lab members gathered for annual Duke Head and Neck Surgery Department research day

 

April 2024

  • Big news!

      Jack Finlay successfully defended his thesis, “Mechanisms of Olfactory Pathobiology – Post-Viral Damage and Neoplasia”.

Cheers to Jack as he returns to medical school, to pursue a surgeon-scientist career in otolaryngology!

 

February 2024

  • New R01 funding for the lab from National Institute on Aging to explore changes in the peripheral olfactory system in Alzheimer’s Disease. Great collaboration with the Duke/UNC ADRC.

November 2023

  • Tiffany Ko’s paper on roles for PRC2 in olfactory basal cells is out:
  • Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 regulates basal cell fate during adult olfactory neurogenesis. Stem Cell Reports. 2023 Nov 14 18(11):2283-2296, PMID: 37832538 

July 2023

  • Sarah Kim, MD, PhD joined the lab. Sarah is an otolaryngology resident on our R25-funded 7-year research track. She has chosen to spend her immersive 2-year research block in the lab, focusing on aspects on post-viral olfactory loss.

April 2022

  • Congratulations to Rupali on her new baby! Welcome Shreyas Gupta Muddasani!

March 2022

  • Allison Oliva matched at University of Miami for Otolaryngology residency!

February 2022

  • Congratulations! Teddy Llinas for great score on your MCAT
  • Tiffany Ko joined the lab as PhD rotation student.

January 2022

December 2021

  • Lab party before the semester ends.

September 2021

  • European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO), Cascais, Portugal.   Symposium (co-chair) – Regeneration of Olfactory and Taste Cells, “Adult olfactory neurogenesis: of mice and men”, Cascais, Portugal, September 16, 2021.

July 2021

  • Allison Oliva, entered 4th year of Medical School
  • Teddy Llinas, joined the lab as an undergraduate independent research student

May 2021

  • Bishoy Hana, joined the lab as an undergraduate research student
  • Sama Elmahdy, joined the lab as an undergraduate research student

April 2021

  • AChemS 42nd Annual Meeting, (virtual) April 19, 2021.  Addressing smell loss: from a Clinical Olfactory Research Center to ongoing translational research efforts. Symposium: Max Mozell: the work lives on.

March 2021

  • Rupali Gupta, Ph.D. joined the lab as a Sr. Postdoctoral Research Associate.
  • Khalil Issa, MD matched for Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery residency at Duke