News and Updates
Congrats to Annika Ozols for winning a second travel award to the Winter Conference on Brain Research from the Graduate and Student Council (GPSC)!
Annika Ozols was one of the receipients of a travel award to the Winter Conference on Brain Research in Big Sky Montana!
Congrats to Annika Ozols for receiving 3rd place in the oral talks for the Arizona Physiology Society Conference held here this year!
Dr. Gallitano received her Keating family endowed professorship at a private reception at the University of Arizona Tucson. Please use the link below to access the news story of the event.
https://bio5.org/news/amelia-gallitano-named-2025-keating-family-bio5-pr...
Congratulations to Amelia Gallitano MD, PhD who has been named the Keating Family Endowed Professor for the UA Bio5 Interdisciplinary Research team for 2025-26! This distinguished professorship honors a BIO5 faculty member who exemplifies excellence in interdisciplinary bioscience research, mentorship, collaboration, and science communication. This award pays tribute to Amelia's impactful work in mental health research.
Congratulations to our undergraduate student Lisa Williams for receiving her Bachelor's Degree!
Best wishes to Sophie on her new endeavor! She will be missed!!
Congratulations to Sophie Wallace and Kate Bornstein for being accepted as counselors in the 2025 "Summer Scrubs Counselors for the UACOMP Summer Scrubs high school (9-12) program"!
Congratulations to Annika Ozols for passing her medical school board exams! She is now working on the PhD portion of her MD,PhD program.
Congrats to Sophie! Her abstract "Activity-dependent overexpression of Egr1 in the hippocampus improves contextual memory in mice" was accepted for the Arizona College of Emergency Physicians (AzCEP) Annual 2025 Conference.
We want to congratulate Annika Ozols for exceling in her first year of medical school and knocking it out of the park! We have provided a link to her University of Arizona white coat profile to read all about her accomplishments!
https://phoenixmed.arizona.edu/whitecoat2027-ozols
Congrats to Sohie for being accepted into the 2024 summer scholar cohort!
We welcome Kate Bornstein and Lisa Williams to the lab!
Congrats Annika Ozols and Dr. Gallitano on the acceptance of the Data in Brief paper!
We officially welcome Sophie Wallace as our newest research techician in the lab!
Congratulations to Kimberly Meyers, PhD et al. for the publication of their paper "Serial electroconvulsive seizure alters dendritic complexity and promotes cellular proliferation in the mouse dentate gyrus; a role for Egr3" in the journal Brain Stimulation 2023!
Here is a link to the paper: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37146791/
We want to congratulate Annika Ozols, MS for her acceptance into the MD PhD program! She has worked so hard for this accomplishment. We wish her the best of luck in this challenging endeavour!!
We want to congratulate Annika Ozols for completing her Masters Degree in Clinical Translational Sciences!
Ioseph Perez is a Flinn Foundation Scholar joining the lab for the summer 2023.
Sophie Wallace is our newest undergraduate volunteer.