….and with it new blood for the lab! First off, Dan Bear, a current Program in Neuroscience student, is permanently joining the lab as a graduate student. Dan’s work will focus on the molecular biology of the peripheral olfactory system, and in particular the transcriptomics and genomics of different functional classes of olfactory sensory neurons. Tari Tan, also a PIN graduate student, is rotating in the lab and working on a project to use optogenetics to modulate odor-driven behaviors. Tari, who hails from Oregon, comes to us after an impressive undergraduate career where she developed molecular biological tools to probe the neural underpinning of sexual behaviors in sheep. Welcome to them both!