Lab news

2025

12/2025 Emily successfully defended her dissertation proposal. Job well done.

11/2025 Carrie successfully defended her thesis. 🎉

09/2025 The lab is awarded a grant from the National Institute of Health to support our research.

08/2025 Emily won the SFN Trainee Professional Development Award. 

08/2025 Abi successfully defended her thesis. She will start her PhD at USF. 🎉

03/2025 Emily's science artwork recognized for best LaserTAG Capturing the Art Of Science Imaging Competition.

02/2025 Perla Morales joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome aboard.

02/2025 Abi won the 3-Minutes thesis competition. Biology retains the cup!! 🎉

2024

09/2024 Faith first publication of her work in The Journal of Experimental Biology.

08/2024 Carrie and Abi delivered their first public lectures at the Society for Neuroscience symposium.

01/2024 Congratulations, Emily's first publication of her microbiome work in The Biological Bulletin.

01/2024: New lab members, Perla and Feliciti have joined the lab. Welcome aboard.

2023

11/2023 Congratulations to Katie for publishing her dissertation work in eNeuro.🎉

08/2023 New lab members, Carrie and Abi, have joined the lab. Welcome aboard.

05/2023 Faith for successfully defended her thesis. She is moving on to biotech world.🎉

2022

10/2022 Faith won the 2022 outstanding research talk at the SFN conference.🎉

06/2022 Dr. Clements successfully defended her dissertation work. Katie will start her postdoc at Duke Univ.🎉

2021  

09/2021 Skyler for the successful defense of his MS thesis.

08/2021 Our third publication this year: Hormones & Behavior.

04/2021 New lab publication with our collaborators in the journal Biology.

04/2021 Steph for publishing his first paper in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.🎉

2020    

07/2020 New publication with our former collaborators in eLife.

07/2020 Allison priest will be joining the lab Fall semester, welcome aboard.

2019

09/2019 Our paper was accepted in Frontiers in Physiology.

07/2019 Skyler Carrell, a new graduate student, joined the lab. Welcome aboard!

06/2019 Amanda Hall was accepted into medical school.Congratulations.

04/2019 Katie won the best oral presentation award: 2019 Triangle Zebrafish Symposium, Duke University.Congratulations.

03/2019 Katie won "The ECU 2019 Outstanding Thesis Award." Congratulations.🎉

2018

11/2018 Congratulations, Faith is a recipient of the 2018 URCA Award. 🎉

08/2018 Greenville's Daily Reflector news paper coverage of our work

06/2018 Katie's third manuscript was accepted in The Biological Bulletin

06/2018 Steph Orr successfully defended his master thesis work.

05/2018 The lab is awarded an NSF and NIH grants. Remarkably, both awards came on the same day. 🎉

04/2018 Steph Orr was accepted into Brody School of Medicine.

03/2018 Steph Orr won the 2018 RCAW "Best Oral Presentation Award." (3rd year in a row for the lab).🎉

03/2018 Katie was accepted into the prestigious Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. 

02/2018 Fadi delivers an outreach public lecture at the East-Coastal College-Career Development Symposium for Natural Science.

01/2018 Our paper was accepted in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits.

01/2018 Fadi was awarded the 2018 National Ataxia Foundation "Young Investigator-SCA Award."🎉

2017

10/2017 Steph won the 2017 3Minutes Thesis "People's Choice Award." 🎉

06/2017 Katie successfully defended her MS degree.

05/2017 Tom successfully defended his degree.

05/2017 The lab was awarded an interdisciplinary research seed grant.

04/2017 Katie Clements won the 2017 RCAW "Best Oral Presentation Award"🎉

03/2017 Amanda Hall is a recipient of the ECAA Scholarship Award.

01/2017 Our paper was highlighted in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

01/2017 The year is off to a great start. Kudos to Katie and Tom for publishing their first paper in The Journal of Neuroscience.  🎉

2016

11/2016 Amanda is a recipient of the 2016 URCA Award.🎉

10/2016 Jared Keever took 3rd place in the annual 3Minutes Thesis Honor college award.

09/2016 Tom was awarded the Student Travel Award to attend the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego.

08/2016 Stephen Orr (graduate student) joined the lab, Welcome aboard.

04/2016 Tom Miller won the 2016 RCAW "Best Oral Presentation Award."  🎉

04/2016 Katie Clements won the 2016 RCAW "Best Poster Presentation Award." 🎉

03/2016 Tom presented his thesis research at Woods Hole MBL.

02/2016 Katie was accepted at the Johns Hopkins University summer program.

02/2016 Amanda Hall has joined the lab, Welcome aboard.

2015

11/2015 Tom Miller won the 2015 3-Minutes Thesis "People's Choice Award." 🎉

08/2015 Katie Clements (Graduate student) joined the lab. Welcome aboard.

01/2015 Tom Miller (Graduate student) joined the lab. Welcome aboard.

2014

10/2014 Allison (Undergraduate) joined the lab. First lab member. Welcome aboard.

08/2014 And off we go....... The lab went into operation.