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Congratulations, Grant Winner - Nofar!

5/2/2019

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​Congratulations to Nofar Engelhard! Abraira Lab Graduate Student, and leader of the Parvalbumin Project; Nofar has been awarded the prestigious $60,000 State of New Jersey Commision on Spinal Cord Research Grant, with outstanding commendation. Nofar will use said funding towards her endeavor to characterize the novel parvalbumin spinal cord neuron's role in both locomotive control and spinal cord injury recovery; continuing her stellar work through 2021. 
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Thank You, Dr. Larry Schramm

5/2/2019

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Collaborator, Johns Hopkins Professor Emeritus Professor, and long-standing mentor to Victoria Abraira - Larry Schramm, PhD, visited the Abraira Lab on Thursday, April 18th. Well published and versed in spinal cord injury, Dr. Schramm paid his first visit to our housing facility - the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience - and was able to discuss unpublished Abraira Lab findings with Dr. Abraira and Keck Center founder; Wise Young, MD/PhD. 
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Moreover, Dr. Schramm offered encouraging undivided attention, support, and expertise to our collection of undergraduates, graduate students, and  postdoctoral fellows; namely Chris O'Brien - an outstanding rotating graduate student who presented his findings in a lab meeting. Thank you, Dr. Schramm for your uncharacteristic kindness and scientific support.
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Welcoming Manon

5/2/2019

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Welcome, Manon Bohic to the Abraira Lab! Manon - a new postdoctoral fellow from the IBDM | Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille, France. Manon brings excellent expertise in mouse genetics to our facility - equipped with "supermice" able to ask her questions targeting social touch. Within her few weeks here, Manon has hit the ground running - imaging oxytocin-expressing neurons in the spinal cord for three-dimensional reconstruction; pivotal for understanding the innate social network that has long pre-existed Facebook or Twitter. 

Here's to an excellent career and start!
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Welcoming Nofar and Aman

6/27/2018

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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.
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Noldus Behavioral Software Training

6/6/2018

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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.
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Advances in Spinal Cord Injury Research Symposium

5/18/2018

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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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End of Year Celebration

5/17/2018

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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!
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Cell Biology and Neuroscience Graduation Banquet

5/17/2018

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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.
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About Us

The Abraira Lab is a collaborative neuroscientific endeavor to understand the somatosensory framework of touch. Our lab operates within the W.M. Keck Center of Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. We are open to interested post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate researchers willing to explore the body's largest perceptive sense.
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