All Posts by

Jacqueline Hart

Brain Awareness Week 2016

Click here to see more images from the 2016 NCFSfN Chapter Conference BAW OUTREACH SUMMARY Almost 2,000 students learned about the brain this year! 17 schools visited in Gainesville and North Central Florida area Over 40 volunteers Brain Awareness Week featured in THE UF POST  …

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph McQuail!

Dr. Joseph McQuail, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Jennifer Bizon, won first place in the McKnight Poster Session held on Sunday, November 13, 2016 as a part of the McKnight Brain Research Consortium

2016 Neuroscience Retreat – Poster Session Award Winners

We would like to recognize and congratulate the winners of the Poster Session at the Neuroscience Educational & Research Retreat, which was held on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at the Austin Cary Forest Learning Center. Amrutha Pattamatta First Place – Senior Trainee Lara Ianov & Raphael Perim Second Place –…

Summer 2016 Graduates

Congratulations to graduate students Jenna Leclerc and Justin Rossi, who all successfully defended their dissertations and graduated in during the Summer 2016 term. Jenna Leclerc (Mentor: Dr. Sylvain Dore): Role of the Haptoglobin-CD163 Scavenging Pathway following Hemorrhagic Stroke Justin Rossi (Mentor: Dr. Michael Okun): Neural Correlates of Impulse Control…

Ocean waves and brain waves

Traditional neuroscience has focused on correlations between oscillations of the brain’s neurons — rhythmic fluctuations in activity patterns — and behavior.

Spring 2016 Graduates

Congratulations to graduate students Scott Harden and Lynne Mercier, who all successfully defended their dissertations and graduated in May 2016. Scott Harden (Mentor: Dr. Charles Jason Frazier): Oxytocinergic Modulation of Hippocampal Neurotransmission Lynne Mercier (Mentor: Dr. Paul Reier): Neurophysiological Changes in Respiratory Circuitry from Cervical Spinal Cord Injury…

Brain Awareness Week 2016 In The News

Brain Awareness Week at UF spotlights minimizing memory loss in aging Dr. Carol Barnes, keynote speaker for the 4th Annual William G. Luttge Lectureship in Neuroscience held on Monday, March 14, 2016 Sponsored by: The McKnight Brain Research Foundation…