May 2025: Ashley is awarded the Mission Connect Travel Grant to the 2025 National Neurotrauma Symposium for her oral presentation.

May 2025: Sydney is awarded an oral presentation in the form of a lightning talk at the 30th Annual Kentucky Spinal Cord & Head Injury Research Trust Symposium

April 2025: Bella wins first place in the TAMIN SFN Symposium Undergraduate Poster Session!

March 2025: Sydney is awarded an oral presentation at the 5th Patricia Levy Zusman International Workshop on Neuroregeneration

January 2025: Goodbye Theresa! 

January 2025: Katerina joins the lab as a post-doc

December 2042: Manshi joins the lab as a PhD student in MedSci. Welcome!

December 2024: Ashley wins 2nd place for her poster at the Texas A&M Chapter of SFN annual symposium

December 2024: Congratulations to Erika for passing her qualifying exams and entering PhD candidacy! 

November 2024: Sepidah joins the lab as a post-doc

November 2024: Ashley wins second place at Mission Connect Scientific Symposium for her oral presentation and poster

May 2024: Erika wins 1st place for her poster at the Texas A&M Chapter of SFN annual symposium

May 2024: Sydney wins 2nd place in her first poster presentation at TAMU GSO Symposium

March 2024: Congrats to Erika and Ashley for both winning a Graduate Student Poster Presentation Award Texas A&M Neural-Gut Axis Symposium

December 2023: Congratulations to Ashley for passing her qualifying exams and entering PhD candidacy! 

November 2023: Ashley wins second place at Mission Connect Scientific Symposium for her oral presentation

June 2023: M.D. student Jordan is joining the lab as part of the MSRP program

February 2023: Congratulations to Arthur for defending his thesis and becoming Dr. Arthur Sefiani!

November 2022: Erika joins the lab as our new PhD student from the Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience

April 2022: Finally, after 2 years, in-person conferences are back! And what a great start with the GRC on Spinal Cord and Nervous System Injury! 2 years of "new data" from speakers from all over the world! Including our own work, with Theresa and Arthur presenting.

April 2022: M.D. student Matt is joining the lab as part of the MSRP program

March 2022: Congratulations to Adel for his paper on cardiometabolic disorder!

Jan 2022: our collaborative work with Drs. Hook and Gaddy on osteopenia was accepted

Jan 2022 - Welcome to Shreya, our new MS student in Biotechnology

December 2021: saying goodbye to Zoha and Natalie!

December 2021 - Sarah joins the lab as our new graduate student from the GENETIC program

December 2021 - Ashley joins the lab as our new PhD student from the Biomedical program

July 2021: Theresa's work on cortical neurons, aging and mitochondrial is now available online!

June 2021: Our new review on Neurogenesis is now published, congrats Arthur!

Jan 2021: we're welcoming Chantal, our new MS student!

Jan. 2021: we had a lot of fun participating in the movie for the COM Medical Science Graduate program - watch here

Jan. 2021: our new perspective on mitochondria, aging, and axon regeneration is available online 

Nov. 2020: we won the best Halloween decoration at the College of Medicine! yummy treats for all the lab!

Oct. 2020: M.D. student Kayla is joining the lab as part of the MSRP program

Sept 2020: Amanda and Sarah are rotating in the lab

Theresa and Adel presented at the PDA symposium. Good job!

Sept 2020: Congratulations Theresa on the NRR Perspective on Aging, Mitochondria and Axon Growth

July 2020: we're back in action! 

March-July 2020: as expected, major slow down in the lab...

February/March 2020: Mike and Eduardo joined the lab

February 2020: Congratulations Theresa for the review on Aging and Neuron-Extrinsic factors -https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2020.00190/full 

January 2020: Great ISNR conference in Monterey! Great poster presentations for Adel and Theresa

October 2019: Alex is leaving - good luck at UT Southwestern! And Welcome Darijana!

October 2019: Arthur is officially joining the lab!

September 2019: Ana is leaving the lab, thank you for the hard work, and good luck with your studies!

August 2019: Arthur joined the lab for his rotation. Welcome!

August 2019: Austin successfully finished his summer internship and presented his work at the Research Symposium. Well done!

June 2019: Calvin just started to help with our SCI and bowel projects!

May 2019: Austin joined the lab for the summer as part of the Undergraduate Summer Research Program of the College of Medicine

February 2019: Adel just started

January 2019: Theresa joined the lab

May 2018: Alexandra joined the lab

January 2018: The lab started an exciting collaboration with Axoltis Pharma, a French biotech company, to test compounds to promote functional recovery after spinal cord injury