After seven great years at Baylor College of Medicine, the Watkins Lab has transitioned to UCSF. We're excited to join wonderful new colleagues in the Division of Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology in the Department of Neurology. This move represents a fantastic opportunity to initiate new collaborative efforts to understand how intrinsic neuronal and axonal stress signaling interacts with neuroinflammation to determine disease course and severity in conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS). We also continue our ongoing NIH-funded efforts in CNS and PNS traumatic axon injury as models for understanding how neuronal stress signaling controls the fates of neurons in injury and disease, from axon regeneration to neurodegeneration.

Our lab is located on the second floor of the Sandler Neurosciences Center at the UCSF Mission Bay campus.