News & Updates
August 2024
We said goodbye to SURF summer interns Amelia Canright and Kamila Haliru! Both completed 10 weeks in the lab and presented posters on their independent research projects on the cerebellum and aging. We will miss them!
July 2024
Bangjie Wang's abstract on the cerebellum and language was accepted as a poster for the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting in Chicago!
June 2024
Ashley Blanco graduates UTD and joins the lab as a full-time clinical research coordinator! Welcome Ashley!
May 2024
Dr. D'Mello has been awarded a Clinical Translational Service Award (CTSA) Grant. The project aims to use high resolution fMRI (7T) to investigate how the brain reorganizes following early cerebellar tumor resection.
April 2024
D'Mello Lab undergraduates Alishba Silat, Ashley Blanco, and Rod Benzanilla-Davila presented posters on their independent research projects in NYC as part of their Simons Foundation Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFIN)!
March 2024
Congrats to Bangjie Wang for winning a Sprouts Research Grant from the O'Donnell Brain Institute! This grant will fund a project aiming to understand the functional consequences of cerebellar damage.
August 2023
Dr. D'Mello's review on the cerebellum and language, in collaboration with Amanda LeBel, is out in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences! Read it here!
July 2023
Welcome Bangjie Wang!! Bangjie is a new PhD student in the D'Mello Lab interested in the cerebellum and language. Learn more about him here.
April 2023
Dr. D'Mello's gave a talk on the Cerebellum and Cognition at the Center for BrainHealth. Check it out here!
March 2023
Check out Dr. D'Mello's preprint: Personal Interests Amplify Engagement of Language Regions in Children with and without Autism.
March 2023
D'Mello Lab crafting day was a success! Check out our new decorations!
January 2023
Dr. D'Mello's manuscript on neural adaptation in autism has been accepted for publication to The Journal of Neuroscience!
January 2023
The D'Mello Lab welcomed new undergraduate research assistants from UT Dallas: Sneha, Alishba, and Ashley! We loved hearing about their interests in our first lab meeting as a group.
December 2022
Check out Dr. D'Mello's piece on researcher's unwitting contributions to sex bias in autism research in Spectrum News.
November 2022
Dr. D'Mello's research on exclusion of females in autism research was covered by Scientific American!
November 2022
D'Mello Lab welcomes its first hires: Lab Manager Audrey Courreges and Research Coordinator Tanny Tahami!
October 2022
Dr. D'Mello's work on exclusion of females from autism research has been covered by The Hill and US News & World Report!
September 2022
Check out our new publication examining the factors that contribute to exclusion of females from autism research, out now in Autism Research.
August 2022
Dr. D'Mello is hiring a lab manager! Click here to learn more and to apply.
July 2022
Congratulations to Dr. D'Mello, who was named a SFARI Bridge to Independence Fellow! The SFARI BTI Fellowship supports early-career researchers who are interested in autism research by facilitating their transition to an independent position and providing $600,000 in grant funding over three years. This funding will support a project aimed at examining the role of cerebello-prefrontal cortex circuits in cognitive inflexibility in autism, and whether cognitive inflexibility may contribute to both strengths and challenges in autism. Read more here!