Akanksha presents at DLS-SURF 2023!

Akanksha had a successful DLS-SURF poster session! The whole lab showed up to support! Congrats!

The lab goes on a hiking trip to Mt. Tammany!

Our lab ventured off together on a 6 mile round trip to the Sunfish Pond near in the Delaware Water Gap area. The original Mt. Tammany hike was changed due to bear activity!!

Sanna visits Scotland after passing first year quals!

Akanksha had a successful DLS-SURF poster session and the whole lab showed up to support! Congrats!

Sham presents at ARESTY 2023 Summer Science Annual Symposium

After successfully completing her summer research in the Barber lab, Sham presented her beautiful brain constellations at the Aresty Summer Science Annual Symposium! Congratulations!

Stephen submits MD-PhD applications!

After sleepless nights and hard work, Stephen has successfully taken the MCAT and submitted his med school applications. We wish him the best!!

2023 Barber Lab New Year's Party

At the second Barber lab new year party, we ate delicious food at Dr. Barber’s house and baked a three layered fly brain cake! It was a fun time and we look forward to another great year.

Dr. Barber befriends Puerto Rican stick bugs in El Yunque!

Dr. Barber runs 2023 LOVE RUN half marathon

Congratulations to Dr. Barber for completing the Love Run Philadelphia Half Marathon this spring!

Akanksha makes the Rutgers Todays News!

Featured in Rutgers Today, Rutgers SAS, Aresty Research Center, and more, our undergrad, Akanksha Mathivanan voices out the story about her own Traumatic Brain Injury, her passion for public advocacy of Traumatic Brain Injury in high school sports as well as her scientific interests in the complex injury she studies in the lab! She strives to become a physician-scientist and achieve more in this field as she grows as a researcher and science communicator! Congrats Akanksha!!

New Lab Member Alert - Welcome Vinithra Kathirvel!

Vinithra Kathirvel, a sophomore studying Cell Biology and Neuroscience joins our lab through Project SUPER! Under the supervision of Dr. Keisuke Fukumura, she will study how age and high fat diet interact to accelerate degradation of circadian output signals in Drosophila melanogaster.