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

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.

Congratulations to the Sweeney Lab on their recent publication: “Modulating fast skeletal muscle contraction protects skeletal muscle in animal models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy” The publication explored the role of fast skeletal muscle contraction in DMD with a novel, selective, orally active inhibitor of fast skeletal muscle myosin,…

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…

The Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics Seminar Series is pleased to have Dr. James Sellers on Wednesday, March 8th 2023 at 11:00am speak on “Not all nonmuscle myosin 2 paralogs are created equal”  Please join us in person to hear from Dr. Sellers in the Academic Research Building (ARB) R5-265. Dr.

The Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics Seminar Series is pleased to have Dr. Melissa Lodoen on Wednesday February 8th 2023 at 11:00am speak on “Innate immunity in the vasculature and the CNS during Toxoplasma gondii infection”  Please join us in person to hear from Dr. Lodoen in the Academic Research Building (ARB) R5-265.

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.” The publication findings demonstrate a previously unknown role of ARL13B in the maturation of Olfactory sensory neurons and development of the…