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Dr. Contreras Marciales gives Flash Talk and Poster Presentation The 6 th International Symposium on Pathomechanisms of Amyloid Diseases took place on December 4-6, 2024 in Tallahassee, Florida. Dr. Andrea Contreras Marciales presented a Flash Talk and Poster Presentation on her recent work studying...

Dr. Laura Blair give seminar on lab's efforts to control tau through molecular chaperones Dr. Blair presented on "Chaperone Control of Tau: A Double-Edged Sword” at the virtual Neurodysfunction and Neurodegeneration Seminar Series, which is a joint seminar series for University of Texas Medical...

Ahmed Ramadan, PhD was selected for Flash Talk at Midwest Stress Meeting 2025 Dr. Ahmed Ramadan, a postdoc in the Blair lab, presented a Flash Talk at the 30th Annual Midwest Stress Meeting, which is hosted at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Two PhD students, Abigail Esquivel and Baliqis...

Blair Lab welcomes Medical Sciences PhD student, Brianna Ariza! Brianna completed her BS in Health sciences and MS in Nanotechnology at the University of Central Florida. She joins the Blair Lab for her PhD studies to conduct research focused on molecular chaperone, FKBP51, in tau-mediated neuron...

Ahmed was selected as one of 14 poster award finalists for Tampa VA Research Day 2025 Dr. Ramadan presented his work on the development of FKBP51-targeting therapies in a one-minute flash talk during the Lightning Round and as a poster during the session that followed.

Congratulations, Dr. Ramadan! Dr. Ahmed Ramadan's work to develop therapies that reduce Hsp90 co-chaperones has been funded by the Alzheimer's Association. This grant will provide $200,000 of support for Ahmed's work over the next three years.

Abigail Esquivel awarded the 2024 Chih Foundation Research & Publication Award The Chih Foundation recognizes groundbreaking research with transformative potential to greatly benefit society. The award seeks to support exceptional third- or fourth-year Science, Engineering or Medicine PhD, PharmD...

Congratulations, Dr. Esquivel! Abigail Esquivel successfully defended her PhD dissertation on the effects of DnaJB6b on tau accumulation. Her dissertation research focused on screening across molecular chaperone families to identify the most potent regulators of tau seeding, which identified DnaJB6b...

Dr. Blair talks about her research at the annual Cell Stress Society International meeting in Old Town Alexandria, VA On Halloween, Dr. Laura Blair kicked off her presentation at the at the 12th International Symposium on Heat Shock Proteins in Biology, Medicine and the Environment with adorable...

Dr. Fihurka joins Blair Lab. Dr. Oksana Fihurka joins the Blair lab as a Senior Research Scientists. She has a MS in biotechnology and a PhD in Organic Chemistry. Dr. Fihurka completed her postdoctoral training under Dr. Sanchez Ramos at the University of South Florida. She has broad expertise in...