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…
Congratulations go out to Chao Xie (Mentor: Jeffrey Martens, PhD) for his silver award winning presentation entitled, “Gene Therapeutic Reversal of Olfactory Impairment in Bardet-Biedl Syndrome: Moving Beyond Single Gene Replacement” at the 2021 Medical Guild Research Symposium that was held on Wednesday, April 14th. Way to go Chao!…
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…
Come join us for the 46th annual Medical Guild-sponsored graduate student research competition on Wednesday, April 14 from 1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. on Zoom. Each advanced concentration of Biomedical Science nominates one graduate student to give a 15-minute oral presentation, followed by a 5-minute Q & A session. Presentations will be…
Estelle in ‘t Zandt, an undergraduate student in Dr. Wesson’s lab, has been awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. She was one of 396 recipients chosen from a nationwide pool of 1,343 students. in ‘t Zandt is studying microbiology and cell science and psychology. She researches the neural…
This September, the University of Florida moved up to No. 6 in public universities, according to the U.S. News & World Report in their 2021 Best Colleges rankings. The university improved on its No. 6 spot on the list last year. It is tied with the University of…
Dr. Wright was recently awarded a prestigious three-year fellowship from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to study the brain mechanisms that allow for odor hedonics. In her postdoctoral NRSA F32 fellowship, titled, “Learned odor preferences and estradiol,” Dr. Wright will…
On Jan. 14, the research journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a paper from our department’s Joe Flores-Toro, a graduate student, and Dr. Jeffrey Harrison. The paper, titled, “CCR2 inhibition reduces tumor myeloid cells and unmasks a checkpoint inhibitor effect to slow progression of resistant…
