We are proud to celebrate Alyssa Mickle on receiving an NIH F31 Fellowship for her project titled, “Closed-loop epidural stimulation: respiratory motor plasticity and neural underpinnings” Alyssa received her Notice of Award in January and officially began the fellowship in March 2025. This prestigious grant supports her cutting-edge research on…
Joshua Juhasz, a talented NEURON-Aging student, has earned 1st place in the ILR/UF Aging Science Award, sponsored by the Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) at Oak Hammock and the University of Florida! Joshua was recognized for his outstanding presentation exploring the association of statins and brain age — a…
We are incredibly proud to celebrate the achievements of several exceptional students from Dr. Alfonso Martin Peña’s Lab. Ana Lucia Gonzalez PerezAccepted into both the Emerging Scholars Program and the University Scholars Program! Brooke BenedictSelected for the University Scholars Program and also a participant in SNIP! Lauren Burd…
We are thrilled to announce that Caitlin Brennan, an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Erica Dale’s lab, has submitted a first-author abstract to the upcoming American Physiology Summit and has been honored with the Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Award! This incredible achievement highlights Caitlin’s hard…
Twenty-four Alachua County Teens across 10 different schools and 5 different grades registered to compete at this year’s Brain Bee, hosted by the McKnight Brain Institute and the North Central Florida Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. Competitors engaged in a day-long contest similar to a spelling bee, but instead of…
Congratulations to Sarah Sniffen on receiving a poster travel fellowship for the Winter Conference on Brain Research being held in Lake Tahoe, California in January 2025. She will present her poster during both a day session and in the corresponding special poster session later that evening, where she will be able…
Congratulations to Zachary Simon on receiving the 2nd place regular length talk award at the 8th annual Science by the Shore Symposium at Whitney Lab in St. Augustine on September 14 with his talk entitled, “Age and genotype differences in behavior and functional connectomic measures between APOE3 and APOE4 targeted replacement mouse models.”…
Jose Torrellas has received The Whole Scientist Travel Award from Jackson Labs to attend a four-day, NIH-funded course, ‘The Whole Scientist’, at the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, CT. Supported by R25GM113979, this residential course is designed to train emerging scientists in professional, interpersonal, and communication skills for a productive career in biomedicine and basic…
Mackenzie Bolen had been accepted as a board member for the Intelligent Clinical Care Center (IC3), where their goal is to advance our vision for transformative critical and acute care medicine where pervasive and immersive artificial intelligence augments a human-centered healthcare system. This is quite an accomplishment for Mackenzie, as she…
Please join us in congratulating Sabrina Zequeira for her participation in the Yale Ciencia Academy (YCA), a free year-long program that equips biomedical or health sciences doctoral students in the final 1-2 years of their programs with the knowledge, skills, and networks they need to find great…
