News

July 2026

• Very excited to welcome Syd Davis to the lab for her graduate studies!
• Honored to receive the Nancy Chang, PhD, Award for Research Excellence through Baylor College of Medicine

June 2026

• It’s a real pleasure to host 2 local teachers through the BCM Bioscience Data Summer Fellowship and Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program! Anjana Pandey will be joining us from Almeta Crawford High School (Fort Bend Independent School District), and Madison Penn will join from Baylor College of Medicine Biotech Academy at Rusk (Houston Independent School District). They will be mentored by Kat and Bhargavi to learn the latest in data analysis to train their middle school and high school students. Welcome!

January 2026

• Happy new year! So happy to welcome Xander Ritsch, who will drive our drug screening efforts, and Ashlee Prejean for her Master’s thesis studying the phenotypic spectrum of CSNK2A1-related disorders.
• A big welcome to our rotation students: Mehlum Ali from the Genetics & Genomics Graduate Program, Syd Davis and Hope Msengi from the Neuroscience Graduate Program, and Maya Shrikant from the Medical Scientist Training Program!

December 2025

• Congratulations to Fernanda and Shivani for presenting their work at the UTHealth Poster Session! Kudos to Shivani for taking home the 3rd place prize for an undergraduate!!

November 2025

• Excited to welcome Kat Bochtler, PhD to the lab! Kat will be leading translational projects in the lab.
• We are excited to partner with Momentum Education! Members of the lab will provide career mentorship for graduates of Houston-area schools to ensure their long-term success.

October 2025

• Congratulations to Chitrakshi for presenting her research at the GCC Scholars Multidisciplinary Research Rodeo! Only in Texas
• Harita passed her Qualifying Exam with flying colors. Way to go!!

August 2025

• Super excited to welcome Bhargavi Gundamalla, MS to the lab! Bhargavi recently completed her Master of Science in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of South Florida and will be working with our collaborator, Matt Caudill, PhD.
• Thanks to Base by Base for highlighting our work on the association of rare BMAL1 variants with neurodevelopmental disorders in a recent podcast!

July 2025

• Congratulations to Shivani and Angella for presenting their research at the Rice Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium!

June 2025

• Harita will be joining the lab for her graduate work. Hooray!!!!

May 2025

• Honored to receive the Junior Faculty Seed Award from Baylor College of Medicine!

April 2025

• We are pumped to have Jasmine Brown and Harita Mani from the Genetics & Genomics Graduate Program do their rotations with us.
• Had fun meeting with the STEM Career Exploration Club at Cypress Ranch High School!

March 2025

• We are excited to welcome Chitrakshi Pant, PhD to the lab as a post-doctoral research fellow from CSIR-IICT Hyderabad, India! 
• We are happy to announce that we will be partnering with the CSNK2A1 Foundation to study the effects of pathogenic variants in CSNK2A1 on sleep and circadian rhythms!

January 2025

• OK CHAT- the Owls are here! A big welcome to these rockstar undergrads from Rice: Angella, William, Shivani, Nakula, and Ryan!!

December 2024

• Haein joins us from Ithaca, New York. Yes, it’s in the 70s in Houston. So glad you are here!
• Percival Incubators finally arrive.

October 2024

• Haein visits with family for a Houston Halloween!
• House CO2 never tasted this good.
• Fernanda is officially the first member of the Cuddapah Lab. Welcome!! Science, let’s go!

July 2024

• The Cuddapah Lab opens at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine!!