Huge congratulations to undergraduate researchers Ava Hollis and Abhi Verma for being awarded first and second place, respectively, as the most outstanding talks at the 2024 Fozdar Symposium.

Graduate student Ana Royo Marco was selected to present her project, “Treating head injury induced tauopathy by boosting the function of the meningeal lymphatic vasculature”, at the 2024 Spring Brain Conference in Sedona, AZ.

Congrats to graduate student Josh Samuels for being awarded first prize at the 2024 GBS Symposium poster session!

Lab members viewed the 90% partial solar eclipse from Charlottesville, VA (wearing proper eye protection, of course!)

The Hutcheson Award is given to top undergraduates in Carter Immunology Center labs working on immunology projects and is made possible through generous donations from Randy and Rossie Hutcheson.

An outstanding graduate student who defended within the year is chosen for each speciality under the biomedical science umbrella program. Congratulations to our resident ferroptosis expert, Dr. Iron Clint Upchurch, a part of unintentional quintuplet matching that recently assembled the Lukens Lab Avengers.

Congratulations to Charlottesville 10 Miler runners from the lab who conquered this year’s cold, rainy race!

Lab members were over the moon to attend an Alamo screening of the Twilight saga movie, New Moon.

The lab attended local establishment, The Glass Palette, for a peaceful afternoon of glass crafting.

The Harrison Undergraduate Research Award is made possible by the Harrison family and funds outstanding undergraduate research projects.

Ben is a first year microbiology, immunology, and cancer (MIC) PhD student who is interested in studying traumatic brain injury.

We are incredibly proud of Eric for this achievement and are thrilled that we can keep seeing him around.

Graduate student Josh Samuels will present his research about SHP-1 in Alzheimer’s disease at the 2024 Inhibitory Receptors in Immune Homeostasis, Disease, and Therapy Keystone Symposia meeting in Breckenridge, Colorado.

This award is given to Echols Scholars to support independent research. Lexi attended the Sigma Xi iFORE student research conference to present her project concerning the role of CLEC7A in tauopathies.

The Lukens lab participated in the annual hike along with a great turnout of other BIG center leaf peepers! Thank you to lab members Lexi Johnson and Josh Samuels for organizing the event this year.

Alexis M. Johnson was awarded a prestigious prize in the “Ramón y Cajal, Who?” competition at the annual Neuroscience Graduate Program retreat.

John Lukens PhD has now achieved ultimate stardom: as a bobblehead.

The Lukens lab hosted some members in the Charlottesville community as a part of UVA’s Mini-Medical School program!

Congratulations to graduate student Nick Natale who scored a 1% percentile on his first submission F31 NRSA proposal!

Lukens lab member’s participate in the Charlottesville Women’s 4 Miler run/walk fundraiser and Bike MS event!