Department News

Research assistant professor, Christian Lessard, Ph. D., joined the UF Department of Neuroscience team in August of 2015.

The NCF SFN chapter has created an end of the year newsletter, including summaries from various events held this past year. Membership, National SFN news, NCF SFN 11th Annual Conference, Outreach Events, Brain Awareness Week, and Brain Bee are all included. Read newsletter here.

New research assistant professor, Nancy Padilla-Coreano, Ph. D., joined the UF Department of Neuroscience team in January 2021.

UF Department of Neuroscience assistant professor, Paramita Chakrabarty, Ph. D., and her research team has reported their new findings in npj Parkinson’s Disease that an anti-inflammatory cytokine, Interleukin 10, has a profound detrimental effect in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease. This study was co-authored by Samuel Cockey, an undergraduate…

Wonn Pyon wins the first place Robert Levitt Award ($1000 prize) after a presentation and question/answer session hosted by the Institute for Learning in Retirement at Oak Hammock (a retirement community associated with the University of Florida). The competition was open to any graduate student or postdoc that…

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."