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2023 USF Strategic Investment Pool Award These funds will be used to purchase new high speed and ultra centrifugation systems and rotors for the USF Health Neuroscience Institute. This equipment provides a mechanism for protein purification, plasmid purification, virus purification, protein...

Dr. Blair receives the Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Award from the Florida Department of Health Dr. Blair was awarded a new 4-year research grant from the Florida Department of Health to study the role of molecular chaperones in tau seeding and release.

Jeremy Baker receives PhD! Jeremy Baker, will be heading to the opposite corner of the country (Seattle, WA) upon graduating from the Morsani College of Medicine with a PhD in medical science focused on neuroscience. Baker was the recipient of a very selective Washington Research Foundation...

Santiago Rodriguez Ospina receives his PhD in Medical Sciences! Santiago joined the Blair lab in 2018. His dissertation work explored the impact of small heat shock protein, Hsp22, on tau accumulation and toxicity. His work demonstrated that High levels of Hsp22 protect against tau-mediated declines...

New Blair Lab Publication in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules Research, spearheaded by Abigail Esquivel, was published in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. In this work, we identify that DnaJ/Hsp40 molecular chaperones are enriched with regulators of tau...

New lab publication on Hsc70 inhibitors regulating tau In a collaboration with Dr. James Leahy's lab in the Department of Chemistry at USF, we characterized the properties of novel Hsc70 inhibitors. These inhibitors were based off of a prior Hsc70 inhibitor, JG-98. We found that substitutions that...

Congratulations, Dr. Gebru! Niat Gebru successfully defended his PhD dissertation on the effects of FKBP51 in the brain. His dissertation research identified new proteins that may mediate the beneficial effects of FKBP51 deletion and identified a surprising effect of high FKBP51 on circadian rhythms...

Dr. Shannon Hill joins the Department of Chemistry at USF We are excited to announce that Dr. Shannon Hill has transitioned from our lab to open her own independent lab as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of South Florida. We are excited to continue...

Dr. Laura Blair was among 27 USF Faculty members to be recognized with an Outstanding Research Achievement Award this year. She received this award for distinguished contributions to the field of neuroscience, particularly for elucidating the role of discrete molecular chaperones in the brain in the...