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Cuddapah Lab News

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!!!!

April 2025

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!!