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May 2025

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Congratulations to Dr. Glorius!

May 2, 2025 – Anthony Glorius (Herman lab) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "Investigations of stress-induced repetitive behaviors and their potential role in understanding anxiety disorders".

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PhD student Francisca Akhigbe presents her research

May 7, 2025 – In the student-organized seminar series, Francisca Akhigbe (Gao lab) discussed “Post-transcriptional Regulation of Catecholamine Synthesis via Noncanonical EPRS function”.

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PhD student Kajol Thapa presents her research

May 7, 2025 – In the student-organized seminar series, Kajol Thapa (Drosatos lab) discussed “GLUT1: A Molecular Crossroad of Glucotoxicity and Lipotoxicity in a Diabetic Cardiomyopathy Model”.

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Congratulations to Dr. Gaulden!

May 9, 2025 – Andrew (McReynolds lab) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "Endocannabinoid regulation of cocaine-motivated behavior: role of stress and sex as a biological variable".

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Dr. Zhang publishes in "Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics"

May 2025 – With collaborators, Dr. Zhang describes Leveraging large language models to compare perspectives on integrating QSP and AI/ML.

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Herman group publishes in "Neurobiology of Stress"

May 2025 – The group of Dr. Herman describe the Regulation of behavioral responses to single prolonged stress in male and female rats: Role of PACAP.

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Hong group publishes in "PNAS"

May 2025 – Dr. Hong and collaborators find that Circadian clock–gated cell renewal controls time-dependent changes in taste sensitivity.

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Dr. Zhang contributes to "Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics"

May 2025 – Dr. Zhang and collaborators describe Leveraging large language models to compare perspectives on integrating QSP and AI/ML.

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Dr. Perez-Tilve contributes to "Journal of Neuroendocrinology"

May 2025 – A group including Dr. Perez-Tilve finds that Overexpression of the short isoform of the dopamine D2 receptor causes diet-induced obesity and hyperglycemia in mice.

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Drosatos group leads study in "Cell Reports Medicine"

May 2025 – Dr. Drosatos and a multi-institutional group report that Hepato-cardiac interorgan communication controls cardiac hypertrophy via combined endocrine-autocrine FGF21 signaling.

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Paper for P&P PhD candidate Luis Tron Esqueda

May 2025 – In a co-first-author paper, Luis and his colleagues review Autophagy in alzheimer disease pathogenesis and its therapeutic values.

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Thank you Dr. Bilbo!

May 22, 2025 – At the 4th annual Kranias Symposium on Early Career Mentorship, keynote speaker Dr. Stacy Bilbo (Duke University) presented "Neural-glial interactions in neurodevelopment: implications for life-long health".

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Congratulations to P&P PhD candidate Shruti Eswar!

May 22, 2025 – Following selection by her fellow PhD students, Shruti (Andorf lab) was the Distinguished Student Speaker for the 2025 Kranias Symposium on Early Career Mentorship.

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Congratulations to Best Mentor Dr. Kirley!

May 22, 2025 - Dr. Kirley was selected by the P&P PhD students as the Best Mentor for the 2025 Kranias Symposium on Early Career Mentorship.

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Cincinnati, OH 45267-0576

Ms. Jennifer Bedel
Associate To The Chair
Phone: 513-558-5636
Email: bedelj@ucmail.uc.edu