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 for a research seminar on March 17 from 4pm-5pm by Will Spencer, PhD for his presentation entitled, “From Building Ciliary Light Sensor to Extracellular Vesicle Release and Retinal Disease.” Dr. Spencer is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology at Duke University. He studies the basic cellular…
Please join us for a research seminar, entitled “What can pathologic alpha-synuclein templating model tell us about Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementias: lessons from successes and failures” on March 16 at 11am. It will be presented by Dr. Laura A. Volpicelli-Daley, PhD., an associate professor in the Department of…
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…
Please join us for Michael Tadross’s research seminar titled “DART: A New Way to Study Brain Dynamics, Drugs, and Diseases” on Wednesday, February 9th at 11am. Tadross works in the Department of Biomedical Engineering & Neurobiology at Duke University developing “techniques to rapidly deliver drugs to genetically defined subsets of…
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,…
Please join us on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 11:00am for the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics Research Seminar. Gretchen Meyer, Ph.D. will be presenting, “Fat-muscle signaling: the good, the bad, and the beige.” Meyer is an assistant professor of Physical Therapy, Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Orthopedic Surgery at Washington…
