2026
January 1
January 12
February 6
February 11
Ashlynne Fagan Joins the lab! Welcome Ashlynne!
Abigail Bowring rotates in the lab for her PhD!
Kurt Sarner is bound for UAB's MD-PhD program! Congratulations, Kurt, we are so proud of you!
The Heinsbroek Lab is awarded a Xenium Vouchre Award through the Brain Health and Disease Across the Lifespan Initiative!
2025
January 5
August 20
August 28
September 28
September
October 29
December 31
Shelby Hauke joins the lab! Welcome Shelby!
Charlie Olson rotates in the lab for her PhD!
Adin Rossi joins the lab as a Master's student!
Emma Eason starts her Master's program and joins the lab!
Ashlynne Fagan does a rotation in the lab for her PhD!
The Heinsbroek Lab is awarded a pilot grant from the Center for Addiction and Pain Prevention and Intervention at UAB!
Abigail Schwarz is awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Drug Discovery from the PhRMA Foundation!
2024
January 3
January 12
March 13
February 5
February 28
April 7
September 8
Scott Urban and Mary Vanhart join the lab as Researchers, and Jenna Anderson joins the lab as a graduate student for a rotation project. Welcome all!
Jasper Heinsbroek receives a Pittman scholar award
Kurt Sarner and Aisha Mesco are both selected for the 2024 Summer Research Academy scholarship
Margareth Nogueira joins us from Brazil as a Postdoc. Welcome on board!
The Heinsbroek, Day and Peters labs at UAB are awarded a Multi-Investigator Award for studying single cell and spatial transcriptomics changes in the nucleus accumbens after opioid use and withdrawal.
Stephen Holbert joins the lab! Welcome Stephen!
Abigail Schwarz joins the lab as a Postdoc Brain PRIME scholar!
2023
February 1
June 1
June 15
September 12
September 22
November 1
In collaboration with Dr. Carina Soares-Cunha we published a comprehensive review on the regulation of motivated behvaiors and reinforcement by the Ventral Pallidum in Frontiers in Neural Circuits
Our collaborative work with the lab of Drs. Jamie Peters and David Olson on the therapeutic effects of Tabernanthalog (TBG) in a polydrug use model was published in Psychedelic Medicine
The lab officially opens in Birmingham at UAB in the department of Neurobiology
The Heinsbroek lab is awarded a Comprehensive Neuroscience Center Pilot Award
Aisha Mesco joins the lab. Welcome Aisha!
Kurt Sarner joins the lab. Welcome Kurt!