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Lab Picture Day!
12/12/24


Lab Goes Apple Picking!
The lab took a trip to Doe Creek Farms on September 28, 2024 to pick some in-season apples. We enjoyed the great weather, tons of apples,...

Lab Manager Julia featured in Allen Institute's "Open Science Week"
On September 17, 2024, lab co-manager, Julia Milner, was featured in the Allen Institute's "Open Science Week" for her undergraduate...


PhD candidate Colin Kelly presents in Barcelona, Spain!
Colin presented his research, "Resident-peripheral immune interplay: the potential role of adaptive immunity in dopaminergic neuron...


PhD candidate Sahitya Ranjan Biswas presents at UMDF Mito Med 2024
PhD candidate Sahitya Ranjan Biswas presented his research, Postnatal neurogenic niches are disrupted in the subventricular zone of a...

Colin Kelly's CVCSN Oral Presentation
Colin Kelly gave a short oral presentation at the CVCSN presentation at Virginia Tech on April 27th, 2024. He presented his dissertation...

Lauren and Colin's paper in J Neuroscience is out!
They find that microglial or peripheral immune STING signaling dictates the early immune response after injury dictating outcome. Their...


Winter Brain Conference 2024
PhD Candidates, Colin Kelly and Sahitya Biswas, presented their research at the Winter Conference on Brain Research in Breckenridge,...

Swagatika's paper in Journal of Cell Biology is out!
She finds that NAP1/AZI2, an innate immune protein, is important for mitosis and cell division. Her paper can be found at the link below...


Sahitya Biswas Advances to PhD Candidacy
Congratulations to our now PhD candidate, Sahitya Biswas, on passing his preliminary exam.


Alicia Announced as Director of Graduate Studies
Alicia Pickrell has been announced as the new Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Neuroscience!


Colin Kelly Advances to PhD Candidacy
Congratulations to our now PhD Candidate, Colin Kelly, on passing his preliminary exam.

Nicole's first author paper on Remdesivir's effect on mtDNA is published!
The paper can be found at this link if you'd like to check it out! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42704-y

Dr. Swagatika Paul Passes Her Dissertation Defense
Congratulations to our very own, Dr. Swagatika Paul, on passing her dissertation defense!


2023 SoN Summer Research Retreat
Summer undergraduate fellow, Grace Wright, presented her research at the 2023 SoN Summer Research Retreat, after participating in the...

12th Salk Institute Cell Cycle Meeting
PhD student Swagatika Paul presented her poster on autophagy, cell cycle, and micronucleation in San Diego, CA at the 12th Salk Institute...

10th Annual Southeastern Immunology Symposium
PhD student Colin Kelly presented his research on traumatic brain injury and Parkinson’s disease at the 10th Annual Southeastern...

2nd place Oral Presentation at the UMDF in Charlotte
Post-bac student Nicole DeFoor was selected for an oral presentation and awarded 2nd place for her oral presentation at the United...

NIGMS Supplement Awarded
Thanks to the NIA, we were awarded our NIGMS supplement on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias to study how alpha synuclein is...


Dennis Dean Undergraduate Conference
Senior undergraduate researcher, Leila, disseminates her contributions to the lab's research at the Virginia Tech Office of Undergraduate...
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