Congratulations to Magdalene Adjei on being awarded the 2025 Florence M. Foote Physiology Scholarship! Well deserved!
We are thrilled to announce that our second NIH grant was awarded to study the neural mechanisms of learned aggression! There are many people to thank for this milestone, but I would like to highlight the contributions of Magdalene Adjei, Elana Qasem, Savannah Skinner, and our collaborator Dr. Ben Richardson. We look forward to sharing the results of this research with the scientific community. Congratulations team!!
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A big welcome to Mikaela Aholt, who will be joining our lab as a master student! Learn about her in our people’s tab!
A formal welcome to Haresh Kittu, who has joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher! Check him out on our People's tab!
Our latest paper (8th for the lab) was just accepted for publication!! Another impressive team effort.
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Thank you to SIU School of Medicine for awarding us the 2024 Research Seed Grant!!
Thank you to WPSD local 6 for showcasing our research on last nights broadcast!
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Thank you to The Southern Illinoisian for featuring our work!
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We got press! See at the link
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Congratulations to Elana Qasem for winning the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Award!
Congratulations to Sophia Aaflaq on receiving the Florence M. Foote Physiology Scholarship!
Congratulations to Nooshin Mojahed on receiving the Florence M. Foote Physiology Scholarship!
Welcome to Magdalene Pine Adjei, our newest graduate student!
Congratulations to Dr. Jess Jacobs for winning the Keystone Grant from the Histochemical Society! We are all very proud!
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Our 7th paper was accepted for publication!
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Welcome to Alex Cooley, our newest undergraduate researcher (better late then never Alex)
Our latest paper received some press attention! Congrats team!
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We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded our first NIH grant to study the impact of stress on the neurocircuitry of aggression. This milestone is a direct result of the lab's hard work and dedication. A sincere thank you and congratulations to everyone involved!
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A warm welcome to Oliver Caldwell, an SIU medical student who is joining us this summer as part of the MPEE program. Learn more about him in the People tab.
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We are proud to announce that Caitlyn Bartsch and Savannah Skinner have received their Bachelors of Science in physiology and Rylee Thompson received her Bachelors of Science in Biology! Good luck you three! Saluki pride! 🎓
Congratulations to Sophia Aaflaq for winning the Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Award! Strong showing these last few months!
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We would like to formally welcome Nooshin Mojahed to the lab! Learn more about her on our People tab.
Our 6th paper was just accepted!
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Our 5th paper was just accepted for publication! This was a true team effort!
Huge congratulations to Elana Qasem and Sophia Aaflaq for receiving the REACH award to perform research for 1 year in our lab!
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Dr. Jess Jacobs joins the lab! Learn more about her and her work in the People tab.
Congratulations to Dr. Jess Jacobs on her first author paper from the Malkova and Forcelli labs at Georgetown University which was just published in the Journal of Neuroscience!
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Congratulations to Caitlyn Bartsch for receiving the Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) to work in the Lab of Neuropsychology under Dr. Elisabeth Murray. We are all extremely proud of you!
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Huge congratulations to Caitlin Bartsch for winning the Lonnie Russell Undergraduate Research Award!
Huge congratulations to Elana Qasem on receiving the Florence M. Foote Physiology Scholarship!
Our review on aggression priming was accepted, the fourth paper from our lab!
Taylor Lineberry joins the lab!
Sophia Aaflaq joins the lab! Learn more about her on our People tab!
Congrats to Caitlyn Bartsch and Savannah Skinner for presenting their research at the annual Society for Neuroscience Conference in San Diego
Congratulations to Caitlyn Bartsch on winning the CABRI Undergraduate Fellowship!
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Congratulations to Caitlyn Bartsch on her SFN Trainee Professional Development Travel Award!
Come join our team! See link for details
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Congratulations to Caitlyn Bartsch and Savannah Skinner on their Chandrashekhar Memorial Fund Travel Award to attend SFN 2022 in San Diego!
We were awarded the SIU School of Medicine Seed Grant!
Fletcher Summa and Molly Smith join the lab as part of the MPEE program!!
Huge congratulations to Caitlyn Bartsch on the acceptance of her first author paper, and our third as a lab!
Congratulations to Claudia Spotanski on her acceptance to the University of Cumberlands' Physician Assistant Program! We are all very proud of you!
Rylee Thompson joins the lab!
Huge congratulations to Caitlyn Bartsch for winning the REACH award!
Huge congratulations to Savannah Skinner for winning the REACH award!
Claudia Spotanski joins the lab!
Congratulations to Caitlyn Bartsch on her first paper and our second as a lab!!
Umama Asfar joins the lab!
Elana S Qamen joins the lab!
Savannah Skinner joins the lab!
Caitlyn Bartsch joins the lab!
Our first paper was accepted!
COME JOIN OUR TEAM!
Apply at https://jobs.siu.edu//staff/job-details-staff/default.cfm?jobID=12792&job=researcher-iii.