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Roberson Lab News
2020
September 2020
UAB joins the NIA’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) network. Read the UAB News story.
August 2020
Yuliya wins the Student Mentorship & Teaching Award from the Graduate Biomedical Sciences program.
Jonathan receives his F31 award from NIH.
Shreya receives her F30 award from NIH.
Natalie earns a spot on the Pathobiology and Rehab Medicine T32.
Postbac Rachael Vollmer heads out for the Neuroscience graduate program at UT Southwestern, winning a spot on their translational T32.
July 2020
Yuliya and Jonathan’s paper, Alzheimer's disease risk gene BIN1 induces Tau-dependent network hyperexcitability, is published in eLife. Read the UAB News story.
Fabio Raman defends his thesis and becomes Dr. Raman.
June 2020
Dr. Roberson’s new neuroscience textbook, Essentials of Modern Neuroscience, is published.
Graduate student Nick Boyle is appointed to the Neurodegeneration T32.
February 2020
Graduate students Yuliya Voskobiynyk (1st), Nick Boyle and Hunter Dean (tie 3rd) win poster awards at Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics retreat.
2019
December 2019
Astin Powers is accepted into the American Association of Neuropathologists’ Scholars Program.
November 2019
Hunter’s paper, “Neurodegenerative Disease–Associated Variants in TREM2 Destabilize the Apical Ligand-Binding Region of the Immunoglobulin Domain” is published in Frontiers Neurology.
Our paper, “A peptide inhibitor of Tau-SH3 interactions ameliorates amyloid-β toxicity” is published in Neurobiology of Disease.
October 2019
Graduate student, Yuliya Voskobiynyk, wins the first place poster award at the McKnight Brain Institute poster session in Chicago, IL.
Graduate student, Shreya Kashyap, wins the first place poster award at UAB’s Aging Symposium.
Graduate student, Hunter Dean, wins the Three Minute Thesis competition at UAB’s Neuroscience Retreat.
September 2019
Undergraduates Connor Campbell and Daniel Elston join the Roberson lab.
August 2019
Nick Boyle wins a second place poster award at the UAB’s Graduate Biomedical Outreach Symposium.
The lab welcomes graduate student, Astin Powers, M.D.
July 2019
Jacob Mesina wins a first place award (service learning category) in the UAB Summer Undergraduate Expo poster session.
June 2019
Nick Boyle wins Civitan Emerging Scholar award.
Hunter Dean is appointed to the T32 Training Program in Neurodegeneration.
May 2019
Postdoc, Andrew Arrant, joins the UAB faculty as an Assistant Professor of Neurology and officially opens the Arrant Lab.
April 2019
Undergraduate Jacob Mesina is selected to the Honors Neuroscience Summer Research Academy.
Undergraduate Mohammad Waqas wins an Honors College Presidential Summer Fellowship.
Dr. Roberson is inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
March 2019
Graduate student Jonathan Roth wins a poster award at the Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics annual retreat.
February 2019
The Roberson lab welcomes a new undergraduate student, Jacob Mesina.
2018
November 2018
Graduate student Yuliya Voskobiynyk wins second place at the McKnight Brain Research Foundation poster session in San Diego.
October 2018
Dr. Roberson is promoted to full professor.
The Roberson Lab welcomes a new undergraduate student, Adam Aldaher.
August 2018
Nicholas Boyle wins a first place poster award at UAB’s Medical Student Research Day.
The Roberson lab welcomes MD/PhD students Nicholas Boyle, Shreya Kashyap, and Hunter Dean along with research assistant, Rachael Vollmer.
June 2018
Jonathan Roth is appointed to the Cognition and Cognitive Disorders T32.
April 2018
Dr. Roberson receives Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship.
March 2018
Undergraduate Ote Staton wins an Honors College Presidential Summer Fellowship.
Undergraduate Samantha Thompson featured as an outstanding senior in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program.
February 2018
Our paper on the potential viability of progranulin replacement through gene therapy as a treatment for progranulin-deficient FTD is published in J. Neurosci.
January, 2018
The Roberson lab welcomes undergraduate neuroscience majors Madelyn Hoffmann, Mohammad Waqas, and Ote Staton.
2017
September, 2017
Andrew Arrant receives the Excellent Peer Award, which is “Given to the postdoc who habitually extends their talents, patience and time to help other students or researchers.”
Former undergraduate student and UAB Prep Scholar, Andrew Viegas starts his PharmD program at the University of Florida.
Our former undergraduate and UAB Prep Scholar, Vincent Onyilo, starts medical school at Medical College of Georgia.
Our former undergraduate and UNP student, Daniel Unger, starts Ph.D. training at the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry.
July, 2017
Our post-doctoral fellow, Andrew Arrant, Ph.D. receives a prestigious K99/R00 Award.
Our former post-doctoral fellow, Anthony Filiano, Ph.D. is appointed as Assistant Professor at Duke University, department of Neurosurgery.
Roberson lab graduate student, Yuliya, is awarded a T-32 from the Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics.
Our undergraduate researcher, Samantha Thompson wins best talk award at the UAB Summer Research Expo.
May, 2017
PAPER: Restoring neuronal progranulin reverses deficits in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia.
Former Roberson lab post-doctoral fellow, Travis Rush, Ph.D. joins Recursion Pharmaceuticals.
Roberson lab undergraduate, Aashka Patel graduates UAB and starts UAB medical school in August 2017.
April, 2017
Our undergraduate, Samantha Thompson is named Genentech Research Scholar.
March, 2017
Undergraduate student, Samantha Thompson wins best poster award at the 16th Annual University of Alabama Systems Honor Research Conference.
2016
November, 2016
Our undergraduate, Samantha Thomspon wins best poster award at UAB Fall Expo.
August, 2016
Former Roberson lab undergraduate, Brandon Thrash, starts Pharmacology Master’s Program at Tulane University.
May, 2016
Our graduate student, Brian Warmus, Ph.D., graduates from the UAB MD/PhD program and joins UCSF Neurology residency.
July, 2016
2015
May, 2015
PAPER: Effects of Exercise on Progranulin Levels and Gliosis in Progranulin-Insufficient Mice.
Daniel Unger graduates UAB and joins graduate school.
December, 2015
PAPER: Vascular amyloidosis impairs the gliovascular unit in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
Video Abstract
September, 2015
Dr. Roberson receives the Derek Denny-Brown award from American Neurological Association.
August, 2015
Our post-doctoral fellow, Andrew Arrant, receives NIH F32 award
Roberson lab graduate student, Nick Cochran, defends his thesis and starts a post-doc position in Dr. Rick Meyers lab at Hudson Alpha.
June, 2015
Post-doc Travis Rush receives the Weston Advisor Fellowship
April, 2015
Our graduate student, Nick Cochran, named Outstanding Student in the Neuroscience program for 2015
March, 2015
The Roberson lab welcomes Samantha Thompson, student of the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program at UAB
January, 2015
2014
December, 2014
PAPER: Tau-mediated NMDA receptor impairment underlies dysfunction of a selectively vulnerable network in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia
UAB News: Study suggests potential therapy for second most common form of dementia
NEWS & VIEWS: MicroRNA-124 modulates social behavior in frontotemporal dementia
Roberson lab graduate student, Alicia Hall, successfully defends her dissertation and starts her post-doctoral training in the lab of Dr. Tallie Z. Baram.
November, 2014
Post-doctoral fellow Andrew Arrant wins the Civitan Emerging Scholar Award
October, 2014
Our graduate student Nick Cochran wins best poster award at the Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging retreat
August, 2014
UAB News: Changes in the eye might predict onset of frontotemporal dementia
PAPER: AlphaScreen HTS and Live-Cell Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) Assays for Identification of Tau-Fyn SH3 Interaction Inhibitors for Alzheimer Disease
May, 2014
PAPER: Seizure resistance without parkinsonism in aged mice after tau reduction
April, 2014
Our undergraduate, Pauleatha Diggs, is named Outstanding Neuroscience Major.
Zhiyong Li successfully defends his thesis and starts Fenotech Inc.
January, 2014
2013
December, 2013
Our graduate student, Nick Cochran, wins Outstanding Young Investigator Scholarship from the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
PAPER: The dendritic hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology
November, 2013
Dr. Roberson organizes a mini-symposium on Dendritic Tau at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego.
Roberson lab research on the relationship between Tau and network hyper-excitability is featured in AlzForum.
October, 2013
Our post-doc, Andrew Arrant, wins Best Poster at the Center for Exercise Medicine Symposium.
September, 2013
Our graduate student, Brian Warmus is awarded an F30 grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
July, 2013
Brian Warmus represents UAB at the National MD/PhD Student Conference in Keystone, CO.
May, 2013
Lab undergraduate, Allen Young, is named Outstanding Neuroscience Major.
March, 2013
Lab members, Tony Filiano (1st place, Post-doc category) and Brian Warmus (2nd place, Student category), win poster prizes at the Bevill Conference on Neurodegeneration.
February, 2013
Dr. Roberson is awarded the Virginia B. Spencer Endowed Professorship in Neuroscience.
2012
November, 2012
Dr. Roberson receives the McNulty Civitan Scientist award.
October, 2012
MD/PhD student, Brian Warmus, wins Outstanding Oral Presentation at Medical Student Research Day
September, 2012
Graduate student, Alicia Hall wins “Best Oral Presentation” at the UAB Neurobiology Retreat
July, 2012
Roberson graduate student, Zhiyong Li, wins Center for Aging scholarship
March, 2012
Our Graduate student, Nick Cochran, wins Best Poster at the Neurodegeneration retreat.