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Congratulations, Laura Verdina! Laura Verdina was selected for an Outstanding Poster Award at the 2024 VA Research Day for her poster entitled "Impact of FKBP51 Deletion on the Aged Brain".

PhD Candidates, Niat Gebru and Abigail Esquivel, presented their research at the 2023 Society for Neuroscience annual conference in Washington DC

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...