It's been a banner year for Nicole Johnston's butterfly garden.  Over 20 Monarch caterpillars have been collected and housed in protective netted cages.  So far one butterfly has emerged and been released, 17 chrysalides awaiting emergence, and a handful of...

Last Thursday, the Kumar lab took a well-deserved break and went out to the Chart Room for happy hour together. It was a great chance to enjoy good food and share...

The annual Kumar Lab Pirate Golf and BBQ took place on the July 16th. Nicole was the winner this year! Lots of fun.   [gallery type="rectangular" size="medium"...

Our 2025 lab portrait was expertly done by JAX Creative. Thank you, Tiffany Laufer, for the photo. Since Anshul Choudhary and Alex Berger could not make the photo, Alex added to the portrait using cutting-edge image modification methods. Here is an alternative...

We had a wedding in the lab! Camille and Alex's wedding was on June 20. The wedding was a wonderful event. Congratulations, Camille and Alex! Lots of love from the lab.  

One of the perks of being in Bar Harbor - lab folks provide free eggs (Olivia from Rosenthal lab in this case)!

Marina Santos, Jaycee Choi, and Fionna Kennedy (L-R) helped with spring cleaning at the Charlotte Rhoades Garden & Butterfly Park on May 1st. The crew helped the garden staff prep for their big release date on July 31, 2025. This involved raking and clearing...

Tom Sproule (RAIII) has completed his 30th year at JAX! We celebrated with a lab made cakes.  

On the evening of April 23rd, members of the Kumar Lab took advantage of the special "Jax Night" at the Volta climbing gym. These four strong women fearlessly scaled the walls. It was great fun! [gallery columns="5"...

The week of March 31, 2025 was eventful in the lab. We had 4 new members start officially in the lab. Keith Sheppard and Glen Beane started as Principal Software Engineers. Tuan Nguyen started as a Tufts Neuroscience Graduate Student. Tim Leach started as a RAII....

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Fall 2024 is here! This is one our my favorite trees in Bar Harbor. It's on Ledgelawn on way to JAX.    

Both Cayson and Lucia finished their 10 week program. Their presentations were fantastic. We wish them luck as they return to college for the fall semester. Here are some photos. [gallery columns="4"...

The two summer students from the Kumar lab were able to go with the rest of the summer student program (including from the Connecticut campus) to a weekend retreat at Camp Medomak in Washington, Maine! The weekend was spent swimming by the lake, playing various...

Brian led the lab in search of blueberries and found a snake. It's a smooth green snake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_green_snake Everyone got to pose with the non-venomous snake. [gallery...

Hike up Champlain  

The lab celebrated the summer with our annual pirate golf and BBQ. It was also Sandeep's last day in the lab. This is the 6th (or 7th) year of Pirate Golf.

A smaller group hiked around Eagle Lake on Friday.  

Jaycee and Vivek attended the Tufts Genetics Retreat in Freeport, Maine. Jaycee presented a poster and got second place. Great job Jaycee!  

Jaycee, who is part of the Tufts Genetics Program, passed her qualifying exam with flying colors. Nice job Jaycee, you are now an official PhD Candidate. We thank her committee (Dr. Beth Dumont, Greg Carter, Donna Slonim, and program representative Dr. Chris Baker)...

Beehive is one of the more exciting trails at Acadia.      

Beech Mountain has an abandoned fire tower!    

We hiked with the lab visitor, Stef Puig. Brian led the hike around Long Pond....

Dr. Puig visited the lab for a collaboration on chronic pain models. She will be collaborating with Jake in the lab to use computer vision for pain assays. Dr. Puig gave Friday's Genetic Interest Group seminar.

Dr. Yan Dong was Vivek's Thursday seminar guest. Dr. Dong visited from the University of Pittsburgh. He gave an excellent seminar on the neurobiology of addiction.   We hiked Gorham Mountain. ...

Yehya passed their quals in June 2022. Congratulations on becoming an official PhD candidate.

Tufts students in the Genetics and Neuroscience programs joined together on April 11 - April 13 in the annual effort to facilitate community between the Boston-based and Bar Harbor-based students. The three-day retreat featured student-talk sessions, student-poster...

Michelle Berger and Marina Santos have joined the Kumar Lab as Research Associates. More to come on their background and roles in the lab. WELCOME MARINA AND MICHELLE

The biggest perk of working at JAX besides getting to work in a team on exciting research problems is its location. The lab is situated between the Gulf of Maine and the mountains of Acadia National Park. The park offers innumerable outdoor activities. One such...

Earlier this year, I decided to obtain a new addition to my home: a pet bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps). It's been awhile since I've wanted a pet and finally made the move. While most people think that the pets of choice in america is either a cat or a dog, most...

Dr. Yttri, from Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biological Sciences, presented his lab's latest work from this paper. The paper uses unsupervised learning to understand the types of behaviors mice carry out. Dr. Yttri met with postdocs, engineers, and...

I was part of a special emphasis study section last week titled - "Circadian Patterns of Gene Expression Associated with Disease" for RFA-HL-20-016. The RFA was sponsored by NHLBI and NIDA, so most of the proposals revolved around priorities of these two ICs. ...

The lab celebrated the end of the school year with a lunch at Side Street Cafe. Congratulations to Kai, who is off to Stanford in the fall. Congratulations to Alden, who is off to University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the fall. A big thanks to Megan McOsker from...