Our team within the Abraira Lab is focused on participating in community outreach, event planning, and ​social media marketing. We are constantly striving to support diversity and inclusivity, while strengthening connections with Rutgers-New Brunswick and the neuroscience community at large.
​We are also responsible for informing the public of all the exciting research being performed by members of the Abraira Lab.

Our research in the news!

BBC Inside Science “The Neuroscience of Touch”
NPR WAMU “Reaching Out: The Power of Touch in a Socially Distant Time”
CBC Radio​ “How to Stay in Touch with our Basic Senses in Isolation”
Jamie Noor
Jamie is a graphic designer from the tri-state area. She is currently the freelance designer for Abraira Lab where she creates schematics and updates the website. Outside of her freelance work, she is a graphic designer focused in motion graphics for the adtech company Unruly. Jamie has a love for culture, food, nature, and finding ways to bring some human touch back into the digital space. 

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.