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Invited Review: Bird Lab

We would like to highlight that Jonathan Bird and Zane Rowland have recently published an invited review in the Current Opinion on Cell Biology Journal. The review, titled “Myosin motors in sensory hair bundle assembly”, summarizes existing evidence for how MYO7A and MYO15A operate and how their…

News Alert: Coffee and Cigarettes

The upcoming publication entitled “Coffee and cigarettes: Modulation of high and low sensitivity α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by n-MP, a biomarker of coffee consumption” from Dr. Papke’s lab has been highlighted in the UF Health news. The UF Health article, written by Doug Bennett, can be read…

Publication Alert: Papke Lab

Please help us congratulate Dr. Papke’s Lab who published a paper in Addiction Biology on August 11th. The members who worked on the paper were Clare Stokes, Jose Pino, D. Walker Hagan, Gonzalo Torres, Edward Phelps, Nicole A. Horenstein, and Roger Papke. Their data suggest that toxic…

Publication Alert: Urs Lab

Please help us congratulate Dr. Urs’ Lab who published a paper in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience on 06/06/2022. The UF Pharmacology team, led by Nikhil Urs, Ph.D. and Nicole Horenstein, Ph.D, used medicinal chemistry to generate small aryl fragments, and employed screening assays and computerized docking…

Publication Alert: Bird Lab

We are very happy to announce that work from Dr. Bird’s lab was published on 7/20/2022 at Science Advances. This was a collaboration with a cryo-EM expert at Rockefeller University, where they have generated the first ever structures of the Myo15a “motor domain” – a key part…

Publication Alert: Munger Lab

We would like to highlight the Munger Lab’s contributions in the recent publication “Utilization of Nasal Mucus to Investigate the Pathophysiology of Chronic Rhinosinusitis”. It has been published in the American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy and reviews papers published in English pertaining to nasal mucus was performed using…

2022 Summer Department Defenses

This summer semester, our department was extremely proud to hose three defenses: Yang Feng Jordan Bateman Aishwarya Kulkarni We are so proud of all our graduating students! Check out more about their defenses below. Final defense Yang Feng…

Fellowship Alert: Natalie Johnson Awarded NIH Fellowship

Third 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 by Will Spencer, PhD

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…

2022 Spring Department Defenses

This spring semester, our department was extremely proud to host one defense: Christian Kreiger We are so proud of all our graduating students! Check out more about their defenses below. Thesis defense Christian Kreiger…