Today, Dr. Sushanth Kumar will move on in his career as he accepted a post-doc position at Duke University. He will be missed dearly. We are all very proud to call him Dr. Kumar!
Sarah Hunter-Change presents at ISNI 2023
Graduate student, Sarah Hunter-Chang attended the International Society of Neuroimmunology Congress August 20-24th in Quebec City, Canada.. She presented Phagocyte-axonal spheroid interactions regulate axon degeneration.
Sarah Hunter-Chang invited to TA at MBL
Graduate student, Sarah Hunter-Chang visited the Marine Biological Lab August 5-10th in Woods Hole, Massachusetts to assist in teaching the Marine Biological Lab Zebrafish and Genetics course! Congrats!
Minerva Award
Undergraduate student Sara Michel-Le was awarded the Minerva Award for her summer research! Congrats!
Dr. Austin Keeler starts his career as a PI at University of Delaware!
We are sad to see him go, but we are very excited to announce Dr. Austin Keeler will be continuing his career as a principal investigator at the University of Delaware! We wish him the best with his new endeavors!
Dr. Keeler, Dr. Calhan, and Ekaterina Stepanova presented at the Gordon Research Conference
On May 27-28, three Deppmann lab members attended the Gordon Research Conference at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island. Dr. Austin Keeler presented Trophic Signaling Governs Sensory Neuron Lineage Choice; Dr. Yipkin Calhan presented AgRP Neurotrophic Signaling Navigating Adaption to Energy Excess and Scanity; and Ekaterina Stepanova presented Axon-Schwann Communication in Neurodegeneration.
Harrison Grant
Undergraduate student Heeran Karin was aired the Harrison Grant! Congrats!
Double Hoos Research Grant
Undergraduate student John Lee and graduate student Ekaterina Stepanova were awarded the Double Hoos Research Grant! Congrats!
New Lab Manager
In February, the lab welcomed Stefani Mancuso, the new lab manager for the lab!
Moving Into Gilmer
The lab moved to Gilmer 4th floor in August, and is finally getting settled into the new space - we’ve also taken the move as an opportunity to Marie Kondo old equipment, restructure our inventory organization, and truly combine our lab spaces with the Guler and Provencio labs.
Dove had an eventful summer!
Dove was accepted to New York University School of Medicine Sackler Institute’s 2019 Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) in the Biomedical Sciences. The title of her work and presentation was:
Characterization of RAGE-expressing cells in the Sciatic nerve and Spinal Cord of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mice.
Brandon was appointed to the Pharmacology training grant
Congratulations, Brandon!
Austin was selected to give a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar on Developmental Biology
The title of Dr. Keeler’s talk was Single-Cell Mass Cytometry Analysis of Somatosensory Development. Congratulations!
Congratulations Irene!
Dr. Irene Cheng is now an AAAS Science and Technology Fellow (Health Scientist, Office of Science Policy, National Institute of Health).
Here is a link to her article: http://neurograd.virginia.edu/out-lab-and-hill-makingthecase-aaas
Brandon Presents At The NIH
Irene Cheng On The Cover of Developmental Neurobiology
"Cover: The cover, by Irene Cheng et al., is based on the Research Article Temporally restricted death and the role of p75NTR as a survival receptor in the developing sensory nervous system, DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22591."
Congrats to 2018 Graduates!
Congratulations to Lucy Jin, Lucy Rose, Joseph Ephrem, Parks Remcho, Irene Cheng, and Laura Sipe for graduating. Congrats to Lucy Rose on being awarded the Frank W. Finger Research Award! We wish you all good luck in your future adventures!
Neuroscience Undergraduate Graduation Ceremony
Left to right: Joseph Ephrem, Christopher Deppmann, Parks Remcho, Lucy Jin
Lucy Rose graduates from UVA Psychology
Irene Cheng (far left) and Kelly Barford (third from left) graduate from UVA Neuroscience
Kenny Kuhn Presents at the Katz Symposium
Congrats to Kenny for presenting at the 34th Annual Richard D. Katz Research Symposium on the "Interactions between TNFR1 and p75NTR in the regulation of axon growth"!
Parks and Lucy Jin present at the Fozdar Symposium!
Congrats to Parks and Lucy J for presenting at the Fozdar Symposium for Neuroscience undergraduate research!
Congrats to Lucy for winning third place!
Irene, Lucy Jin, and Lucy Rose publish!
Congrats to Irene and the Lucy's to publishing in Developmental Neurobiology!
Cheng, I., Jin, L., Rose, L. C. and Deppmann, C. D. (2018), Temporally restricted death and the role of p75NTR as a survival receptor in the developing sensory nervous system. Devel Neurobio. doi:10.1002/dneu.22591