It is our great joy to officially welcome Abraira Lab's first two graduate students: Nofar and Aman. Both bring unique skillsets and passionate goals to flesh out the neuroscience behind touch. Read more about them on our Graduate Student page.

Today, Abraira Lab held a collaborative Noldus training session for Etho Vision XT 13.0, a software package allowing unprecedented computational video tracking and data acquisition from animals. Interested researchers from neighboring labs and variegated backgrounds congregated to learn about how the lab's new behavioral annex will help them in their own analyses. At lunch, members chatted with pizza in the Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience.

Spinal Cord Researchers from across the globe gathered at the 2018 Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Advances in Research Symposium at New Jersey Medical School. Hosted by SCI Neurosurgeon, Robert Heary, M.D., 6 keynote speakers discussed their most recent findings. Members from our lab actively engaged in a forum, adding somatosensory touch to topics such as clinical comorbidity, neuroimmunity, matrix and metalloproteinases (MMPs), and robot training.
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On Tuesday, May 8th graduating students from the Keck Center of Collaborative Neuroscience were honored. Undergraduate seniors from our very own lab - Emily Behan and Andrea Martinez - were honored and each gave speeches after being introduced by Dr. Victoria Abraira. Thank you for all if the hard work that you do, and best of luck to your future endeavers!

On May 10, faculty and graduating students were invited to the Cell Biology and Neuroscience Graduation Banquet in the Rutgers Life Sciences Building Foyer. Students, including members of our lab, each recieved engraved medallions for their years of devotion to neuroscience. Selected students were honored for academic excellence.