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We are excited to welcome Hannah Ennerfelt to the lab!

We are grateful to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation for their support of our research investigating the role of genomic sensors in psychiatric disease.

Jessica and John are happy to introduce the newest member of the Lukens lab family – Bennett Leon Lukens!

We are excited to welcome Ashley Bolte to the lab to pursue her PhD research in the MSTP program!

Congratulations to Calli for receiving the 2018 Stull Research Award! We are stoked to have her back for the third straight summer.

Congratulations to Elizabeth for receiving a three-year postdoctoral fellowship from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). Thank you to the NMSS for continuing to support the next generation of MS researchers.

We are honored to be receiving support from the Alzheimer’s Association. Their support will enable us to explore how the immune response contributes to Alzheimer’s disease.

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.