Our lab presented 3 posters at Neuroscience Next, an online event hosted by the Alzheimer's Association to promote the work done by young scientists in the field of Neuroscience. Student presenters included Ellie Wind, Victoria Pulido-Correa, and Ariana Hernandez.

Julianna Bonetti's project investigating sex differences in the efficacy of telmisartan to combat high-fat diet-induced metabolic and cognitive disturbances was awarded 1st place in the poster competition at Life Sciences South Florida (LSSF)!

Our lab presented 5 posters at Life Sciences of South Florida (LSSF) hosted by FIU! Student presenters from our group include Victoria Pulido-Correa, Ellie Wind, Julianna Bonetti, Nikhila Paleati, and Ariana Hernandez.

Our lab presented 6 posters at NSU's Undergraduate Student Symposium this year! So proud of them and ecstatic to see all of their hard work pay off!!! The future is bright :)

Julianna Bonetti's project investigating sex differences in the efficacy of telmisartan to combat high-fat diet-induced metabolic and cognitive disturbances was nominated for the American Association of University Women (AAUW) award!

Eleanor Wind won 1st place in the poster competition at the Society for Sports Neuroscience! This work is her honors thesis project investigating the kappa opioid receptor as a potential mediator of exercise's protection against anxiety-like behavior during withdrawal from adolescent binge drinking. Special thanks to collaborator Dr. Robert Speth for acting as co-mentor on this project!

Students presented posters on 1) exercise as a treatment for binge drinking (Ellie Wind), and 2) keto diet as treatment for cerebral amyloid angiopathy (Victoria Pulido-Correa). Victoria's project was also selected for the data Blitz!

Shalet was one of the first students to join our lab 2.5 years ago. I can’t believe she will already be graduating this winter. We will miss her immensely.

This project, headed by PI Dr. Mary "Allie" Holschbach of NSU's Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience, will investigate the effects of motherhood and infant contact in a rodent model of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Robison will serve as Co-PI on the project.

With four awards given annually across the university, she was recognized as the Assistant Professor in STEM and Health/Medicine.

Dr. Robison attended with students, Victoria and Ariana, as well as several NSU collaborators!

This paper reports that chronic treatment with chronic Δ9-THC (the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana) dose-dependently alters cannabinoid-1 receptor (CB1R) levels throughout the brain and locomotor activity in the open field.

In this collaboration with Zuloaga lab headed by the fabulous Charly Abi-Ghanem and Abby Salinero, we show that in a mouse model of VCID, high-fat diet and resulting metabolic disease results in sex differences in neuropathology, specifically white matter changes and neuroinflammation in several areas of the brain. This is a follow-up to our previous paper reporting on metabolic and cognitive outcomes (Salinero et al., 2020, FASEBJ). Make sure you check them both out!

Our NOA has arrived for an R03 to investigate the role of cerebral amyloid angiopathy as a potential link between brain injury and increased dementia risk. Dr. Benedict Albensi (NSU Pharm Sci) and Dr. William Kochen (NSU Neuroscience) are co-investigators on this 2-year, $308,000 grant.

This R16 is headed by Dr. Benedict Albensi (NSU Pharm Sci) and is a 4-year, $616,000 grant funded by NINDS. The project will investigate the safety and efficacy of nilotinib (an FDA-approved chemotherapy drug) in a mouse model of AD, in the absence and presence of metabolic disease. Dr. Robison serves as co-investigator.

This program will provide Victoria with the opportunity to do rotations in 3 different specialties.

Congrats to Zach, Melanie, and Meha!! Zach graduates with an honors in research citation, and Meha with an honors-in major, for their work performed in our lab. Meha and Zach will be missed as they head off to med school in Michigan and Virginia, respectively! Melanie will be focusing on preparing for her MCAT, gaining clinical experience, and applying to medical school. We are so proud of them and thankful to have had these amazing humans work with us over the last 1-2 years!!

As part of this highly prestigious program, Iliana will undergo didactic and practical training from experts at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, as well as engage in research on neurotrama!

Zachary Lawrence presented his honors thesis project at the APS conference in California. Thanks to NSU for his travel grant to help make this possible!

Eleanor Wind, an Honors Thesis Student in our lab, successfully defended her proposal! This work will investigate the efficacy of aerobic exercise to treat withdrawal in a model of adolescent binge drinking.