June 2020
Congratulations to our grad students Farhana, Mohammad and Hunter who successfully passed their qualifying exams and got approval for their thesis projects this spring 2020. Great job! you guys are truly amazing!
March 2020
Our first research paper from the lab has been accepted for publication!!! Congratulations to Mohammad and his team of undergrads Sagufta, Dominica, Amit (MS student), Danny and Nabeela, for this major accomplishment. We are beyond proud!!!
Hippocampal injection of the exercise-induced myokine irisin suppresses acute stress-induced neurobehavioral impairment in a sex-dependent manner.
Jodeiri Farshbaf, M., Garasia, S., Moussoki, D. P. K., Mondal, A. K., Cherkowsky, D., Manal, N., & Alviña, K.
Read it here https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-34330-001
January 2020:
NEW YEAR BIG NEWS! WE MOVED!!! OUR LAB IS NOW PART OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN GAINESVILLE. https://neuroscience.ufl.edu/
MORE INFO COMING SOON!
May 2019:
The lab says good bye to several undergraduate students that graduated or moved on to other endeavors! Thank you for your time and dedication Varsha Misra and Kajal Parikh (graduates) and Bridgette Kerr.
Lab outing to celebrate
Congratulations Mohammad for your 1st place award at the TTU Obesity Cluster Research Annual meeting.
April 2019: TTU Undergraduate Research Conference
Great lab representation, congratulations (top to bottom) Varsha, Kajal, Noah, Alyssa, Sagufta, Fabiola, and Dominica for successfully presenting your posters.
March 2019: Farhana presented at the TTU Annual Graduate student poster competition
January 2019: New year, new lab member! Welcome new PhD student Amit Kumar Mondal
August 2018: Clark Scholars symposium, Jack Christian presented his summer project. He totally nailed it!
Some snapshots of Jack at work:
July 2018: lab summer gathering!
June 2018: lots of new peeps join the lab!
- Kevin Cruz Colon (undergrad from the University of Puerto Rico) and Jack Christian (Clark Scholar, High School senior from Sacramento, CA) will be spending most of the summer with us!
- Kajal Parikh, Varsha Misra, Bridgette Kerr, Fabiola Arzate, Noel Estrada and Alex Soto (all undergrads from TTU) will start working with us and will stay for the coming semesters!
- Danton Shoemaker leaves and will be continuing his Ph.D. work with Dr. Jim Carr
February 2018 : New grad students join the lab!
Welcome Farhana, Mohammad, Hunter and Danton! (see People page for photos!), more details soon 🙂
Baby steps!
Our lab is starting to take form 🙂 lots of boxes being delivered and the first electrophysiology rig is almost completed.
