New & Noteworthy

Congratulations to Dr. Urs on his recent NIH R01 award! Title: Role of cortical catecholamines in regulating motivated behavior and striatal dopamine…

We are excited to welcome back to our Department, Sharonda Harris, PhD, as the Assistant Director for Research Administration. Dr. Harris received her PhD from the University of Mississippi in Pharmacology & Toxicology. She then was a postdoctoral associate from 2015-2021, first in the lab of Dr. Gonzalo…

During the College of Medicine’s Celebration of Research one of our own faculty members, Dr. Olga Guryanova, was awarded the Rising Star Award in Basic and Translational Science. Please help us congratulate her on this amazing achievement.

Please join us for the Doctoral Defense of Cora Hart. Date: Thursday March 23rd 2023Time: 10:00 AMLocation: ARB R5-265…

Congratulations to the Wesson lab on their recent publication: “Machine learning-based clustering and classification of mouse behaviors via respiratory patterns” The research uncovers a wide diversity in breathing patterns across spontaneous, attractive odor-, stress-, and fear-induced behaviors in mice. With collaborators the lab implemented a supervised machine learning…

Congratulations to Natalie Johnson for receiving a prestigious Dissertation Research Grant from UF’s Center for Addiction Research and Education! Mentor: Dr. Dan Wesson; Title: The impact of attractive e-cigarette odors on nicotine reward.

Congratulations to the Wesson Lab on their recent publication: “Organization and engagement of a prefrontal-olfactory network during olfactory selective attention” The lab reports integration of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a collection of brain regions integral to attention, with the olfactory system in the context of…

Please help us congratulate Julien Habif on his recent publication titled “The role of a ciliary GTPase in the regulation of neuronal maturation of olfactory sensory neurons.” Julien works under the supervision of Dr. Jeffrey Martens, whom is also credited in the publication. Chao Xie…

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Law for his two new grants funded by the Florida Department of Health: -Reducing racial disparity in breast cancer survival with a novel synthetic-lethal strategy-Optimizing novel small molecule activators of Death Receptor 5 for breast cancer therapy…

Please help us congratulate Gregory Takacs and Dr. Jeffrey Harrison on their recent publication titled “Glioma-derived CCL2 and CCL7 mediate migration of immune suppressive CCR2+/CX3CR1+ M-MDSCs into the tumor microenvironment in a redundant manner”. The study determined that CCR2 and its cognate ligands are prominent…