Irene Sanchez Martin is a postdoc who recently presented her research on maternal immune activation at a Society for Neuroscience press conference in Chicago.

October 7, 2024

Conversations about his passion for studying glia and synapses, and about his experiences as an Indigenous and transgender neuroscientist.

August 6, 2024

CSHL’s Lucas Cheadle becomes elite HHMI scholar, gets funding for science and diversity

May 9, 2023

HHMI announces the inaugural Freeman Hrabowski Scholars cohort — 31 exceptional early career faculty who have potential to become leaders in their research fields and to create diverse and inclusive lab environments in which everyone can thrive.

May 9, 2023

October 4, 2022

Assistant Professor Lucas Cheadle and colleagues have discovered that cells called oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) contribute to this pruning process. This helps shape a healthy brain during early development.

September 28, 2022

After six years as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, neuroscientist Dr. Lucas Martin Cheadle began his position as an assistant professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in 2020. As he pursues scientific discoveries, Cheadle is insistent that his lab has diversity, inclusion and belonging, noting it prominently on the home page of his lab’s website and being intentional in recruiting.

January 27, 2022

The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2021 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, celebrating five early-career leaders in the biomedical sciences whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health

July 26, 2021

The Rita Allen Foundation funds big ideas that aim to solve complex problems in science and civil society. Cheadle was selected for his neuroscience research.

July 6, 2021

Assistant Professor Lucas Cheadle has been awarded a Klingenstein-Simons Neuroscience Fellowship for his research on the developing brain.

June 10, 2021

In his research, Dr. Cheadle is studying the development of visual neural connections using a mouse model in which some mice are reared in a light-free environment during a crucial stage of development.

June 4, 2021

Brain immune cells, called microglia, protect the brain from infection and inflammation. It turns out that they also sculpt circuits in the developing brain in response to sensory cues.

June 4, 2021

The Board of Directors of The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience is pleased to announce it has selected seven neuroscientists to receive the 2021 McKnight Scholar Award.

June 2021

Through its collaboration with the Simons Foundation, the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience supports early career investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

June 2021

One of the newest additions to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s neuroscience program, Lucas Cheadle, who is an assistant professor, is exploring the early environmental factors at a molecular level that shape the neurological development of the mouse visual system.

September 27, 2020

In joining Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Lucas Cheadle has continued his professional and personal journey far from his birthplace in Ada, Oklahoma.

September 27, 2020

Brain immune cells, called microglia, protect the brain from infection and inflammation. It turns out that they also sculpt circuits in the developing brain in response to sensory cues.

September 14, 2020

Neuroscientist Lucas Cheadle joins the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) faculty as an assistant professor. His research focus is on how sensory experience and the environment shape the developing brain.

August 6, 2020

A key protein helps the brain remodel itself in response to sensory experiences.

July 23, 2018