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…
Congratulations go out to graduate student Jordan Bateman (Mentor: Erica Levitt, PharmD, PhD), who was recently awarded a 2-year NIH F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award Fellowship. This prestigious and highly sought-after NIH-National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) fellowship will investigate the neural mechanisms of opioid-induced…
The APS Respiration Section New Investigator Award recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his or her career. Candidates are investigators who have made meritorious contributions to the area represented by the Respiration Section and are judged on their publications, how the publications relate to the Respiration Section, evidence…
