3rd year Pharmacology PhD candidate Natalie Johnson of the Wesson lab has been awarded a highly competitive 3 year duration fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. The title of her grant is “Olfactory Mechanisms Supporting Attraction to e-Cigarette Odors”. In her project, …
Please join us in congratulating the Papke Lab on their publication, entitled “Selective agonists and antagonists of a9 versus a7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.” The paper discusses their identification of new a9 agonists and antagonists that may prove invaluable for defining an optimal approach for treating pain, which would allow for…
Congratulations to Jonathan Larochelle on receiving a competitive AHA pre-doctoral fellowship award for his project entitled, “Characterizing the Neuroprotective Effects of Ripk2 Deficiency in Experimental Ischemic Stroke.” Congratulations Jonathan!…
Please join me in congratulating Erica Levitt who was awarded a Neuropharmacology Early Career Award from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET). https://www.aspet.org/aspet/meetings-awards/aspet-awards/aspet-scientific-achievement-awards/aspet-award-winners/2022-award-winners/ Way to Go Erica!!…
A research paper “DNMT3A harboring leukemia-associated mutations directs sensitivity to DNA damage at replication forks” from our department was published in the scientific journal Clinical Cancer Research. The study, spearheaded by Kartika Venugopal, a PhD student in the Guryanova lab, paves the way to a new personalized…
Congratulations to Dr. Steve Munger for receiving one of the University of Florida’s Innovator of the Year awards. Dr. Munger and his colleagues developed a rapid and simple olfactory test that can be sent through the mail. This test,…
Ada Varga, PhD received a K99 award for her project “Role of an arousal circuit in respiration and opioid-induced respiratory depression” from NHLBI. The research centers on further understanding largely unexplored mechanisms of opioid-induced sedation, the primary cause of…
Victoria Leroy was named one of only nine 2021 ASPET Washington Fellow. She is working on her PhD in Biomedical Sciences in the Pharmacology department. Leroy’s research under Dr. Ashish Sharma focuses on “the mechanisms of inflammation resolution in post-lung transplant injury to identify potential therapeutic targets.” Under the Washington…
Please join me in congratulating the 2021 SURF Program Fellows! Kimberly Correia University of Florida, Gainesville FL Major: Psychology & Health Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders. SURF Mentor: Gemma Casadesus, PhD Anthony Luis Chapman University, Orange CA Major:…
The Kopinke lab published a research article in Scientific Reports, titled Automatic and unbiased segmentation and quantification of myofibers in skeletal muscle. The article discusses the team’s novel ImageJ plugin, LabelsToRois, which “allows processing of multiple Cellpose segmentation in batches.” It also has functions that allows for the identification…
