March 2024
Technician Sydney Ragsdale and Graduate Student Emily Salvador present their research at the 2024 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry in Atlanta, GA.
Danielle Cushing successfully defends her dissertation making her the second PhD candidate to graduate from the Wilber Lab. Congratulations Dr. Cushing!
November 2023
The Wilber Lab presents their research at the 2023 Society for Neuroscience Conference in Washington D.C.
August 2023
Graduate student Emily Salvador joins the lab, supported by a two-year Neuroscience Fellowship award!
Technician Johanna Marquez Diaz accepted a position serving as a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute STEM Public Policy Fellow. During the initial phase of her fellowship, she will be in the office of Congresswoman Lois Frankel, who represents Florida’s 22nd District. Her responsibilities will encompass Health and Research legislation for the DC office, covering areas such as Women’s Health and Research funding. She'll also be involved with the Democratic Women’s Caucus, chaired by the Congresswoman, as well as the Labor, Health and Human Services subcommittee. Congresswoman Frankel is a member of the Appropriations committee, which oversees funding for agencies like NIH, CDC, and the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services.
July 2023
Danielle Cushing presents her work at the 2023 Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
November 2022
The Wilber Lab presents their research at the 2022 Society for Neuroscience Conference in San Diego, CA.
August 2022
Congratulations to Danielle Cushing who received the NOA for the first submission of her F31.
Dr. Wilber and graduate student Danielle Cushing attend the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) in San Diego, CA where Danielle presented her latest research.
July 2022
Alina Stimmell successfully defends her dissertation making her the first PhD candidate to graduate from the Wilber Lab. Congratulations Dr. Stimmell!
May 2022
The Wilber Lab attends the Florida Consortium on the Neurobiology of Cognition (FCNC) 2022 Meeting, hosted by FSU and organized by Dr. Aaron Wilber. Dr. Wilber was also elected president.
April 2022
Anisa Shashaty (top) and Ryan Thé (bottom) present their posters at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at FSU.
Undergraduate and Lab Technician Johanna Marquez Diaz was awarded the Clara Kibler Davis Scholarship.
Undergraduate Jessica Dixon received an NSF Fellowship and also the FSU President's Undergraduate Humanitarian of the Year award.
February 2022
Graduate Student Alfonso Brea Guerrero joins the lab.
November 2021
Jessica Dixon presented her virtual poster at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.
Alina Stimmell and Danielle Benthem presented their work virtually at the iSCAN meeting on Spatial Cognition in Aging and Neurodegeneration.
October 2021
Dr. Wilber gave a public talk on October 25 as part of the Institute for Successful Longevity’s Brown Bag Series on Alzheimer’s related research in the lab. The talk is available on the institutes YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/--cv5Po3JDY
August 2021
Dr. Wilber, graduate students Alina Stimmell and Danielle Benthem, undergraduate student Jessica Dixon, and lab technician Jordan Ogg attended the first hybrid meeting of Florida Consortium on the Neurobiology of Cognition (FCNC) organized by Dr. Wilber. Jordan, Jessica, Alina and Danielle presented in the data blitz section of the conference and Danielle tied for best presentation
April 2021
Congrats to graduate student Danielle Benthem for winning Best Talk at FSU Graduate Research Day for her presentation on “Impaired Hippocampal-cortical interactions during sleep in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease”.
Congrats to undergraduate Jessica Dixon on her acceptance into the Cold Springs Harbor undergraduate research program where she will work in Dr. Cheadle's laboratory.
Congratulations to undergraduate Ashley Silk for successfully defending her undergraduate honors thesis titled "Rest Sessions Before and After Training May Partially Recover Impaired Spatial Navigation in Mice Modeling Tau and Amyloid-Beta Aggregation Aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease".
Congratulations to undergraduate Jessica Dixon for placing Second for her poster presentation “Spatial Disorientation and Alzheimer’s Disease: The Relationship Between Activation Profiles in the Brain’s Navigational System and Reorientation Deficits in the 3xTg-AD Mouse Model of Tau and Amyloid Beta Aggregation” at the Atlanta Neuroscience Symposium.
March 2021
Congratulations to graduate student Alina Stimmell for the acceptance of her first author paper “Tau pathology profile across a parietal-hippocampal brain network is associated with impaired spatial reorientation in the 3xTg-AD Mouse” at Frontiers in Aging.
Dr. Wilber was interviewed for the “Where are they now?” Section of the newsletter for the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience.
February 2021
Undergraduate Jessica Dixon presents preliminary data from her honors thesis on spatial learning and memory induced activation profiles across the parietal-hippocampal network in 3xTgAD mice at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference on February 27th at 9am. A video of her poster presentation can be found here: Poster.
The Wilber lab, in collaboration with Co-Investigator Dr. Ben Clark, was a recipient of a 5-year $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes on Aging to study why Alzheimer's disease leads to difficulty navigating new surroundings, what brain changes may underlie getting lost and treatments for reversing these impairments and the underlying brain dysfunction. It was covered by a FSU press release and an article by the FSU Institute for Successful Longevity.
August 2020
Graduate student Yi joins the lab, supported by a half year Neuroscience Fellowship award!
July 2020
Our lab is featured in both television and radio interviews highlighting research from Danielle's recent paper.
June 2020
Our lab is featured in a news piece highlighting research from Danielle's recent paper. View here.
May 2020
Danielle publishes Impaired Hippocampal-Cortical Interactions during Sleep in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease in Current Biology.
Congratulations to Melissa Meynadasy for being selected for the Interdisciplinary Clinical Neuroscience (ICN) Training Grant. As an ICN trainee she will receive 2 years of support for her research. Melissa is a graduate student in Dr. Natalie Sachs-Ericsson's lab and Dr. Wilber is her cross-area mentor.
March 2020
Congratulations to undergraduate student Jessica Dixon, who has been awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Jessica's goals are to conduct research on movement disorders as a translational neuroscience professor at a research orientated university.
December 2019
From undergraduate student Jessica Dixon:
“I just found out that the university has chosen me as an FSU nominee to the national level of Goldwater consideration. FSU can only send a maximum of 4 students, and it is uncommon to be nominated as a sophomore. Goldwater is the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship given in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics, so even being a nominee at the university-level very exciting. It also provides some funding for graduate school.”
November 2019
Danielle publishes Impaired Hippocampal-Cortical Interactions During Sleep and Memory Reactivation Without Consolidation in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease in the pre-print server BioRxIV.
October 2019
Jessica Dixon presents her research for the IDEA grant at the President's Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence
Christine Simmons, Danielle Benthem, and Alina Stimmell present their research at the 2019 Society for Neuroscience in Chicago, IL
June 2019
Undergraduate Luis Santos-Molina accepted the Post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award position at the National Institutes of Health. He will be researching at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) in the laboratory of the Institute Research Director, Dr. George Kunos, with one of his senior Investigators, Dr. Grzegorz Godlewski. He will be there for two years before pursuing medical school.
April 2019
Jessica Dixon presents our work on the connection between spatial reorientation and Alzheimer's disease at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at Florida State University.
March 2019
Undergraduate student Jessica Dixon has been awarded the 2019 Scott and Ina McNichols Undergraduate Research Award.
January 2019
Alina Stimmell publishes Impaired Spatial Reorientation in the 3xTg-AD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease.
November 2018
Dr. Wilber, Alina Stimmell, and Christine Simmons present at the Society of Neuroscience in San Diego California.
June 2018
Graduate student Danielle Benthem joins the lab, supported by a Legacy Fellowship from the Graduate School at Florida State University!
May 2018
Undergraduate Andreza Melilli presents to the College of Medicine.
April 2018
Undergraduate Nicole Bruce presents our work on the role of the parietal cortex on sequence learning at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at Florida State University
February 2018
Impaired Spatial Reorientation in the 3xTg-AD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease is published in the pre-print server BioRxIV
November 2017
Our work received unique press coverage in a national comic:
Alina Stimmell presents our work on spatial re-orientation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s at Neuroscience 2017 in Washington D.C.
September 2017
Laminar Organization of Encoding and Memory Reactivation in the Parietal Cortex is published in the journal Neuron
This work was covered by a handful of newspapers, magazines, and websites (e.g., Tallahassee Democrat, New Jersey Tribune).
Dr. Wilber's radio interview with Science Update
August 2017
Graduate student Christine Simmons joins the lab, supported by a half year Neuroscience Fellowship award!
May 2017
Dr. Wilber, Alina, and Christine attending the founding and first meeting of Florida Consortium on the Neurobiology of Cognition (FCNC)
April 2017
Dr. Wilber is awarded an R00 award from the National Institute on Aging to investigate Neural Mechanisms of dysfunctional spatial orientation in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.
March 2017
Lauren Thompson presents our work on spatial re-orientation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at Florida State University.
“Laminar organization of encoding and memory reactivation in the parietal cortex.” is published in the pre-print server BioRxIV and highlighted by the Simmons Foundation.
February 2017
Dr. Wilber is awarded a First-Year Assistant Professor Award by Florida State University.
Laboratory Manager Shawn Moseley joins the lab.
August 2016
Graduate student Alina Stimmell joins the lab, supported by a two-year Neuroscience Fellowship award
Dr. Wilber joins the psychology department and program in neuroscience at Florida State University!