The Pharmacology Department would like to extend a huge congrats to Dr. Kodi Ravichandran (PSTG Preceptor and Chair of Microbilogy) and his team of researchers for their new exciting discovery! He and his team have sucessfully blocked ELMO1 in lab mice and by doing so it stopped arthritis inflammation without causing other problems. Please follow NBC29 for the full story.
The Pharmacology Department would like to congratulate Dr. Zhen Yan and his team of researchers for their new findings in studying how the body is damaged by the restoration of blood flow. There is evidence that shows that pre-injury exercise has substantial benefits in terms of preserving both muscle and nerve. Please visit UVAConnect for the full story. These findings were also published in, Applied Physiology:
Rebecca J. Wilson, Joshua C. Drake, Di Cui, Matthew L. Ritger, Yuntian Guan, Jarrod A. Call, Mei Zhang, Lucia M. Leitner, Axel Godecke and Zhen Yan(2018). Voluntary running protects against neuromuscular dysfunction following hindlimb ischemia-reperfusion in mice. The Journal of Applied Physiology, https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol.00358.2018
The University of Virginia today announced plans to establish a School of Data Science, an effort made possible in part by the largest private gift in the institution’s 200-year history. Please visit UVAToday for the full story!
The UVA Medical Center is holding an interfaith service honoring Dr. King’s life and work in the main hospital lobby. You can read more about next week’s UVA MLK events by visiting https://mlk.virginia.edu/events.
We are excited to be starting Journal Club in just a few short weeks ! Presentations will begin on February 12 with Brady Barron from the Ravichandran Lab presenting. Please visit the below link for the full semester lineup! We hope to see you there!
Registration for the 2019 International Laboratory Freezer Challenge is now OPEN. Registration closes on Friday, February 1st at 5pm. Labs have until May 1st to fill out and submit their score sheets to WIN PRIZES!
In 2017, UVA was awarded an Honorable Mention, and in 2018, UVA placed 4th against other academic institutions. Let’s work together to see what we can accomplish in 2019!…
Tell your friends! Compete! Win prizes! Questions? Ready to sign up? Contact:greenlabs@virginia.edu
Congratulations to Alisha Sahu, a third year neuroscience major in Doug Bayliss’s Lab, for being one of the 45 students to receive a Harrison Undergraduate Research Award this year! The Harrison Awards program partners students with a faculty mentor for research and provides up to $4000 of funding to pursue new research projects that the students have designed. In order to be considered for this award, students must develop and submit detailed research proposals for funding to be reviewed by the Faculty Senate Research, Teaching and Scholarship committee. Under the leadership of their faculty mentors, students have to formulate a research question and propose methods for analyzing it. This year’s selection process was highly competitive. The committee received 78 applications for review-many of which were worthy of funding. It is apparent that Alisha’s application was a winner for clearly pushing the bounds of knowledge, careful preparation and rigorous design!
Alisha will use the award to explore the role of the neuropeptide PACAP on breathing at the time of birth in the Bayliss Lab. Please congratulate her and her mentor when you see them around! You can read the full story by visiting UVAToday.
The Pharmacology Department would like to congratulate Katelyn Ahern (Thurl Harris’ Lab) for receiving the L. Jackson Roberts II and Jason D. Morrow Award at the 10th annual meeting of the International 4-Hydroxynonenal Club at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. This annual award is for best overall presentation. Pictured is Katelyn receiving the award from Dr. Claus Schneider, Dept of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt.
Congratulations Katelyn!
The Pharm Admin Offices will be closed on the following days in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday….
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Friday, November 23, 2018
We wish you all a safe and happy holiday!
The 2018 Joseph Larner Memorial Lecture in Pharmacology will be presented by Holly Ingraham, PhD (UCSF) this Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 9:30 AM in the Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium. She will be speaking on “Female Bones and Behaviors Controlled by Sex-Dependent Hypothalamic Nodes.”
The lecture is free and open to all – please also plan to join us for a Welcome Reception with Dr. Ingraham at 8:45 AM in the PHCC Auditorium Lobby.
Dr. Ingraham is a Professor and Associate Vice Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Herstein Distinguished Investigator at UCSF, San Francisco, CA. For more info about Dr. Ingraham’s research you can visit the Ingraham Lab here.
