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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. 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...

Dr. Blair was an invited speaker at this year's Hsp90 International Conference Dr. Blair presented on the lab's recent paper "Fkbp5 Gene Deletion: Circadian Rhythm Profile and Brain Proteomics in Aged Mice," which was published in Aging Cell.

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".

Baliqis delivers her first seminar at USF! Second year PhD student, Baliqis Olukade, presented her PhD work focused on regulating Hsp90 co-chaperone networks for the regulation of tau accumulation as part of the 2025 Spring Neuroscience Institute Seminar Series.

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...

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...