Very proud to announce that Matt received a Gillings Merit Award to pursue a Master’s degree in Public Health & Nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

The lab celebrates Celia’s last day in the lab before she embarks on a new journey - attending graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis.

We are grateful for the support from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) that will enable us to reveal the cellular and molecular underpinnings of sex bias in autism.

John was invited to be a featured speaker at The 6th Annual Southeastern Immunology Symposium at Vanderbilt University, happening June 17-18 in Nashville.

Undergraduate researcher Calli Bellinger was admitted into the UVA Neuroscience program. Congratulations Calli! We are excited to have you join the program.

John was named an Associate Editor for the Journal of Immunology. Congratulations John!

Celia published a review in Frontiers in Immunology chronicling the relevance of immune cell and signaling pathways in the long-term cognitive outcomes of patients suffering a traumatic brain injury.

John was selected to participate on the editorial board for the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

The lab received an Annette Lightner Research Award to support a project ascertaining the role of dendritic cell-mediated SYK signaling in the development of multiple sclerosis and how this pathway may be manipulated to provide novel MS treatment options.

Elizabeth and John published “The brain’s reward circuitry regulates immunity” in Nature Medicine’s News and Views section, a review explaining recent findings that further demonstrate how psychological health and physical health are intertwined.

The lab joins the BIG Center on a department hike!

The lab was awarded a University of Virginia Research and Development seed grant to explore how dysregulated IL-1 production contributes to traumatic brain injury.

Undergraduate researcher, Calli Bellinger, received a Hutchison Undergraduate Research Award to further pursue her studies in the lab over the summer

Elizabeth Frost, PhD, joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow!

Catherine Lammert runs in the Charlottesville Half Marathon, which supports the One Love Foundation.

John was selected as a Hartwell Investigator and received an individual Biomedical Research Award from the Hartwell Foundation for his proposal entitled: “Targeting the Interplay between the Immune System and Microbiota in Autism Spectrum Disorder.”

Matt Paysour runs in the Charlottesville TEN Miler, which raises money for the Sexual Assault Resource Agency (SARA)