UF department of neuroscience celebrates week 1 of diversity month with various events, panels and honors throughout the week of April 5-10, 2021. In conjunction with the College of Medicine’s Diversity Week, the Department of Neuroscience hosted a screening and discussion of the film…
Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Genetics and Genomics Program and Evelyn F. McKnight Chair for Research on Cognitive Aging and Memory, Thomas Foster, Ph. D., drives research on partial microglial depletion. Findings reveal that this depletion is associated with impaired hippocampal synaptic and cognitive function in young and aged rats.
Predoctoral fellow, Alejandro Albizu, receives NSF graduate fellowship. Albizu works with UF associate professor, Adam Woods, Ph. D.
UF department of neuroscience associate professor, Eduardo Candelario-Jalil, Ph. D., explores the "impact of aging and comorbidities on ischemic stroke outcomes in preclinical animal models: A translational perspective" in an invited review article for a special issue of Experimental Neurology.
On April 1, 2021, Yuxing Xia, MD-PhD student, defended his dissertation entitled "Pathogenic tau recruits wild-type tau into brain inclusions and promotes brain-gut degeneration in tau SPAM mice."
Professor of Neuroscience at UF, Malú Gámez Tansey, Ph. D., reviews LRRK2 as the missing link between inflammatory bowel disease and Parkinson's disease (PD). More specifically, this review article looked into the scientific studies associating inflammatory bowel disease with Parkinson's through the LRRK2 gene which is involved in inflammatory activity in the gut, blood and brain.
From UF Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease New preclinical research led by UF neuroscientists shows that tau proteins, considered a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease pathology, build up in brain cells of mice and continue to be cleared. The novel finding published in the journal Acta Neuropathologica indicates that…
In September of 2020, research assistant professor, John Koren, Ph. D. joined UF Department of Neuroscience team.
UF Professor of Neuroscience, Wolfgang J. Streit, Ph.D., further investigates the role of microglia in sporadic Alzheimer's disease.
University of Florida neuroscience students sparked excitement and intrigue among over 1,200 public school students across Alachua County through interactive brain activities during Brain Awareness Week, which began March 15.
