Trainee News

Congratulations to Andrew Moore for receiving a F31 Award for the NIH.

From left to right. Dr. Jeremy McIntyre, Aylin Ak, Julia Langman, and Vedant Garg. Jazmyn Coronado presented via Zoom and was not present to receive her award. Congratulations to our SNIP final presentation winners. The presentations were held July 27th, 2023 at the McKnight Brain Institute. Cellular/Molecular Neuroscience Category…

Congratulations to Abigail Anderson who is in Dr.Malú Gámez Tansey’s lab. She is officially a published author. Please find the link to her article below. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.15.549151v1.full…

The Department of Neuroscience is pleased to announce our summer graduates. Ph.D. program graduate is Grace Lloyd. Dr. Lloyd’s mentor was Benoit Giasson, Ph.D. The In-Person Master’s program graduates are Emely Gazarov who’s mentor was Barry Setlow, Ph.D. Emely’s dissertation title was “Pharmacokinetics of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol following acute cannabis smoke…

MacKenzie Bolen, a graduate student in Dr. Malu Tansey’s lab, was awarded a grant for her research through the Bryan W. Robinson Endowment. The award includes $4000 of support for Bolen’s research titled “A Gut-First Investigation of Parkinson’s Etiopathogenesis: Iron-Driven Mitochondria Dysregulation as a Function of Neuroimmune Cross-Talk…

Sabrina Zequeira, a graduate student in the lab of Drs. Bizon and Setlow, has placed 2nd in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools in Tampa on March 4. The 3MT is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland, Australia…

On May 29, Summer Neuroscience Internship Program (SNIP) students for the 2021 program arrived on UF’s campus. These interns will join active neuroscience research labs at the University of Florida (UF), one of the largest and most productive research universities in the United…

Last month, Rebecca Wallings, Post Doctoral Associate, received the Bright Focus Foundation fellowship for an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program award. This is a 2-year fellowship worth $200,000 where Wallings will be completing a project entitled “The role of the peripheral immune-system in FTD-GRN; increasing understanding for future therapeutic target…

On Thursday, May 20, 2021, Douglas Miller, predoc fellow, will defend his thesis entitled “Differential sensitivity of the SNC and VTA dopaminergic networks.” The motivation behind the thesis, Miller says, was to better understand complex network properties of dopaminergic brain regions that make them sensitive to neuronal loss…

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…