The Daniel lab celebrates the end of a productive summer and welcomes to the lab two new members. Stella Wroblewski a first-year Neuroscience Program PhD student, is completing a research rotation in the lab. Christian Montanari, currently a postdoc at LSU Health Sciences Center, will be a new Research Assistant Professor in the lab starting October 1. Welcome Stella and Christian!
2022 Tulane Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience (TURN) Poster Session
Claire Noccioli, Daniel lab member and participant in the Tulane Brain Institute’s TURN summer program, presents the research that she conducted in the lab over the summer at the annual TURN poster session held on August 4, 2022.
Daniel lab, along with Tulane Brain Institute colleagues, awarded new NIH Program Project Grant.
Read more about the grant here.
Fall 2021 Lab Picture
The lab gathered for a quick picture following a lab meeting.
New Lab Publication in Neurobiology of Aging
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Nina Baumgartner on her first-author paper in Neurobiology of Aging . A PDF copy of the paper can be accessed on our Publications page.
Dr. Baumgartner!
Congratulations to PhD student Nina Baumgartner on the successful defense of her dissertation “The importance of estrogen receptor α to hippocampal function and cognitive aging independent of estrogen status”. She defended her dissertation on zoom on Tuesday, April 20, 2021!
Lab Picture!
The Daniel lab braved the cold to take a quick group picture in our matching rat masks made by Nina!
New Review Article in Special Issue of Climacteric
Doctoral student Nina Baumgartner wrote an invited review with Dr. Daniel for the journal Climacteric for a special issue on Cognition and Menopause. A PDF copy of the article can be found on our Publications page.
Welcome to our new rotating PhD Student!
We’re excited to welcome Parker Tirrell to the lab as a rotating student! Parker is a first year in the neuroscience program and is excited about everything hormones. We’re happy to have him join us!
New Lab Publication in Behavioural Brain Research
Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Darling, on his final paper from his doctoral training in the lab. You can access a PDF version of it on our Publications page.
Last lab meeting of the semester!
At the last (virtual) lab meeting of the semester, we celebrated our two current undergraduates who are graduating! Congratulations Sarah Holan and Shannon McQuillen!
Virtual celebrations!
During our lab meeting today we celebrated Sang Miller officially joining the Daniel lab! Sang is a first year PhD student in the Neuroscience program who just finished her rotation in the lab and is staying on permanently. We’re excited to (virtually) welcome her to the lab officially!
End of semester celebration!
The Daniel lab celebrated the end of another great semester of research at the Bar Frances happy hour today!
SFN 2019
The Daniel Lab had a great time reconnecting with alumni and friends at the annual Society for Neuroscience Conference in Chicago this year!
New Lab Publication in eNeuro
Congratulations to graduate student Nina Baumgartner, whose first first-author paper was published at eNeuro! You can access a PDF copy of the article on our Publications page.
New Supplemental Grant Award
The lab received a new supplemental grant award from the National Institute on Aging that will allow expansion of the lab’s research on female cognitive aging to include investigation of estrogen and estrogen receptor impacts on the hippocampus and memory in a new mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, Aβ precursor protein (APP) knock-in mice, AppNL-G-F/NL-G-F.
National Institute of Aging Workshop: Cognitive Benefits (and Costs) of Hormone Therapy
Jill Daniel participated in the National Institute on Aging (NIA) hosted-workshop titled “Cognitive Benefits (and Costs) of Hormone Therapy.” Investigators from academic and medical research centers and NIH staff reviewed the current state of active research on menopausal hormone therapies and identified gaps in the evidence base. Workshop summary report is here.
Tulane Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience Poster Session
Daniel Lab undergrads Ethan and Sarah presented their posters at the annual TURN summer poster session.
Tulane Undergrad Research Program
Our awesome undergrads Ethan and Sarah gave a great presentation today at the Tulane Undergrad summer Research program in Neuroscience (TURN)!
SBN Poster Award Winner!
Graduate student Nina Baumgartner recently won the Outstanding Poster Award for graduate students at the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology annual meeting. Her poster was titled “Neuroestrogen-dependent transcription in the brains of ERE-Luciferase reporter mice following short- and long-term ovariectomy”. Congratulations Nina!!
