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AIDA and ABIGAYLE WON AWARDS AT THE IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH DAY 2024 TODAY!
NOVEMBER 21st, 2024
Congratulations to Aida Lopez who won a 10 minute talk presentation for $500; congratulations to Abigayle Duffy who won a poster award at the UVA Immunology Research Day 2024! Both of you did fantastic job and make Eyo lab proud.
ABIGAYLE'S REVIEW PAPER WAS PUBLISHED ONLINE TODAY!
NOVEMBER 21st, 2024
Congratulations to Abigayle Duffy whose Review is now online at GLIA. This review summarized the astroglia, microglial and synergistic astroglial-microglial contributions to brain development.
ABIGAYLE WON BEST POSTER AWARD AT RETHINK NEUROIMMUNOLOGY CONFERENCE!
SEPTEMBER 27th, 2024
Congratulations to Abigayle Duffy for winning a poster award at the ReThink Neuroimmunology conference. Congratulation Abigayle, you make us so proud!
DR. OLOPADE VISITED EYO LAB AND DELIVERED SEMINARS!
JUNE 24-26th, 2024
Dr. James Olopode from University of Ibadan visited Eyo'lab and delivered two seminars at UVA on pandemic preparedness and vanadium in brain.
ABIGAYLE PASSED HER COMPREHENSIVE EXAM TODAY!
JUNE 18th, 2024
Congratulations to Abigayle Duffy who passed her Comprehensive Exam and became a PhD Candidate. Congratulations!!!
ABIGAYLE WAS SELECTED ON THE CARDIOVASCULAR TRAINING GRANT TODAY!
MAY 24th, 2024
Congratulations to Abigayle Duffy for being selected to be on the Cardiovascular Training Grant. This is an extremely prestigious honor as the CVTG is one of the oldest training grants in the country. Abigayle is the 4th member of the Eyo lab to secure a position on the TG following in the footsteps of Bruce Corliss, Tré Mills and Morgan Coburn. She is our first grad student to do so. What a wonderful honor and testament to Abigayle’s hard work!!!! Congratulations!!!
JOE SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED HIS DISSERTATION TODAY!
MAY 17th, 2024
Ogochukwu Joseph Uweru, the first graduate student's Eyo Lab, successfully defended his Dissertation today. Congratulations to Joe and Eyo!!! You made it!!!
EYO and SHAYN WERE AWARDED FOR PILOT GRANT TODAY!
MAY 15th, 2024
Eyo and Chair of Biomedical Engineering Shayn were selected for UVA Brain Institute Transformative Neuroscience Pilot Grant seed funding program. They will collaborate in "Brain microvascular pericyte pathology linking Alzheimer's Disease and Type II Diabetes". Congratulations to All!!!
JOE ET. AL. PUBLISHED A RESEARCH PAPER TODAY!
April 15th, 2024
Ogochukwu J. Uweru et. al. published a paper (Journal of Neuroinflammation) on sex differences in microglia and highlighted the recent progress of Eyo lab in microglial sex differences and behavioral studies. Congratulations to you Joe!!! We are looking forward to your graduation!!!
EYO AND ANNA PUBLISHED A GREAT PIECE OF PAPER IN SCIENCE JOURNAL TO DEFINE MICROGLIAL-SYNAPSE INTERACTIONS TODAY!
September 14th, 2023
AIDA WAS AWARDED IPRIME FELLOWSHIP TODAY!
February 6th, 2024
Aida Lopez and her collaborative project “P2RY12 regulation of microglia and astrocyte homeostatic transcriptional states” has been selected for funding through the iPRIME Fellowship Awards Program. Congratulations to you Aida!!! You well deserved it!!!
EYO WAS INTERVIEWED BY NATURE NEUROSCIENCE TODAY!
December 6th, 2023
Ukpong B. Eyo, as a both established leader in the field and earlier in the career, was Q&A by Nature Neuroscience today. Congratulations to you Eyo!!! We are so proud of you!!!
AIDA AND EYO PUBLISHED A REVIEW PAPER ON ASTROCYTES AND MICROGLIA IN THE COORDINATION OF CNS DEVELOPMENT AND HOMEOSTASIS TODAY!
November 21st, 2023
Aida Oryza Lopez-Ortiz and Ukpong B. Eyo published a review paper in J of Neurochemistry (JNC). Congratulations to all!!!
EYO GROUP PUBLISHED A RESEARCH PAPER ON THE EFFECTS OF PLX 3397 ON MICROGLIAL AND PERIPHERAL IMMUNE CELLS TODAY!
October 21st, 2023
Kenneth et al. published a research paper in J Neuroinflammation distinguishing the effects of systemic CSF1R inhibition by PLX3397 on microglia and peripheral immune cells. Congratulations to all!!!
EYO AND ANNA PUBLISHED A GREAT PIECE OF PAPER IN SCIENCE JOURNAL TO DEFINE MICROGLIAL-SYNAPSE INTERACTIONS TODAY!
September 14th, 2023
Ukpong Eyo and Anna Victoria Molofsky published a perspective paper in Science defining microglial-synapse interactions and arguing the brain's microglia have many roles beyond synaptic pruning. Congratulations Eyo and Anna!!!
AIDA WON 2023 BI NEUROSCIENCE PHOTO CONTEST!
September 13rd, 2023
Aida Oryza Lopez was selected as one of the winners of the 2023 BI neuroscinece photo contest (see gallery for the winning picture). Congratulations Aida!!!
JOE AND AIDA RECEIVED SfN TRAINEE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD!
August 29th, 2023
Joseph O. Uweru and Aida Oryza Lopez have received the SfN Trainee Professional Development Award. Great work, Congratulations!!!
EYO WAS AWARDED PITCH & CATCH FUNDING FROM VIRGINIA ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE CENTER (VADC)!
August 17th, 2023
Eyo as four top-ranked PIs was awarded $15,000 for his proposed fascinating project from VADC (see gallery for the picture). Congratulations Eyo!!!
EYO LAB MEMBERS WERE SELECTED TO PRESENT IN CONFERENCES TODAY!
August 8th, 2023
Synphane, Aida, Abigayle and Joe were selected to present a poster and Tre will present at a nanosymposium at SfN this Novermber. Laura will present a poster in UUtach. Congratulation all!!!
SYNPHANE AND EYO WERE AWARDED HHMI GILLIAM FELLOWSHIPS TODAY!
July 27th, 2023
Gilliam fellows program provides awards to pairs of dissertation advisers and their graduate students. Each year, only 50 PD students were selected national-wide. Congratulation Synphane and Eyo!!!
EYO WAS PROMOTED TO AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR!
July 21st, 2023
Department of Neuroscience had a party today to celebrate his promotion with others. Congratulation Eyo!!!
EYO WAS FEATURED in the UVA HELTH NEWESLETTER TODAY!
July 12rd, 2023
Eyo was featured in a UVA Health Story in the UVA Health Newsletter (nationally distributed journal)!!
SYNPHANE IS SELECTED FOR A WAGNER FELLOWSHIP!
June 23rd, 2023
Congratulations to Synphane who is selected for a Wagner Fellowship!!!
SYNPHANE GIBBS-SHELTON WAS INVITED TO GIVE A VIRTUAL TALK AT OPEN BOX SCIENCE
April 6th, 2023
Synphane Gibbs-Shelton was invited to give a virtual talk at Open Box Science (https://openboxscience.org). Watch the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zPTe_wMOg4&t=5s !!!
EYO AND EDWARD ARE FEATURED IN MEDICINE IN MOTION NEWS TODAY!
May 10th, 2023
Eyo and Edward are featured in Medicine in Motion News for understanding of how brain responds to seizures!!!
SYNPHANE GIBBS-SHELTON WAS SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE AND RECEIVE A TRAVEL AWARD!
April 14th, 2023
Synphane Gibbs-Shelton was selected to participate and receive a travel award for the University of Alabama 2023 NEURAL (National Enhancement of Underrepresented Academic Leaders) conference: https://www.uab.edu/medicine/rms/neural-conference-2023. Congratulations, Synphane!!!
DR. LAURA BELL JOINS THE MICROGLEYO LAB AS A POSTDOC TODAY!
March 1st, 2023
Dr. Laura Bell joins the MicroglEyo Lab as a postdoc having graduated from the University of Utah Neuroscience Program to conduct her NIH F99/K00 project Investigating the Role of NG2-glia in the Development of Epilepsy. Welcome, Laura. We are very excited to have you!!!
SOPHIA CHENG AND VIVIAN CAO-DAO RECEIVED HARRISON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD TODAY!
February 27th, 2023
Congratulations to Undergraduate Student Researchers Sophia Cheng (under the mentorship of Graduate Student Synphane Shelton) and Vivian Cao-Dao (under the mentorship of Dr. Kenneth Okojie) who are recipients of the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award!
THE MICROGLEYO LAB IS FEATURED AT UVA HEALTH TODAY!
February 22nd, 2023
TRAINEES FROM MICROGLEYO LAB ARE AAL SELECTED TO PRSENT POSTERS AT ASN MEETING TODAY!
February 21st, 2023
DR. EYO AND DR. OKOJIE ARE FEATURED IN A UVA VIDEO TODAY!
February 13th, 2023
1ST YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT IN NGP DECIDES TO JOIN THE MICROGLEYO LAB TODAY!
February 9th, 2023
SYNPHANE WAS SELECTED FOR AN INTERNSHIP AT UVA'S LICENSING & VENTURES GROUP TODAY!
February 6th, 2023
Third year graduate student Synphane Shelton was selected for an internship at UVA’s Licensing & Ventures Group today. Congratulations Synphane!!!
CAPILLARY-ASSOCIATED MICROGLIA (CAM) PAPER WAS ACCEPTED TODAY!
August 02nd, 2021
Kanshan, Kaushik, and Kenneth's microglia-vascular interaction paper was accepted today!
JUNETEENTH SEMINARS IN NEUROSCIENCES
August 01st, 2021
Eyo helped to organize the second Juneteenth Seminars in the Neurosciences at UVA.
EYO LAB TURNS 3!
June 18th, 2021
On this day 3 years ago, the MicroGleyo lab opened. It was so special that Dr. Eyo wore a tie!
EYO FEATURED IN UVA TODAY
July 07th, 2021
Eyo is featured in UVA Today: https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-how-microglia-could-change-medicine
TRÉ MILLS JOINS THE LAB AS A T32 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
June 01st, 2021
Tré Mills joins the MicroglEyo lab as a postdoc as a recipient on The Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC) T32 training grant. Congrats and Welcome Tré!!!
EYO IS HIGHLIGHTED AS AN ITHRIVE SCHOLARS PROGRAM MENTOR
May 10th, 2021
EYO PUBLISHES CELL REPORTS PAPER ON MICROGLIAL POUCHES
May 04th, 2021
Eyo’s paper: Microglia provide structural resolution to injured dendrites after severe seizures
is published in Cell Reports.
SYNPHANE BECOMES CO-PRESIDENT
April 29th, 2021
Synphane is elected co-President of Shades of Sisterhood at the University of Virginia. Congrats Synphane!!!!
SYNPHANE JOINS THE LAB
April 02nd, 2021
Synphane is officially inducted into the MicroglEyo lab in a white coat ceremony! Welcome, Synphane!!!
DENNIS JOINS THE LAB
March 01st, 2021
Dennis joins the MicroglEyo lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Dennis!!!