⏰START THE COUNTDOWN⏰ - 29 more days till Brain Awareness Day at the Kaleideum Museum in Downtown Winston-Salem! Please join us for a fun & interactive day to learn about neuroscience & the brain. 🧠🧠 Hope to see you all there! #kaleideum #neuro

Can’t recommend this workshop enough!

📢Attention graduate students📢 Interested in #SciComm? Applications are due on March 22nd to come join us at #ComSciCon24! bit.ly/3uMJGv2. Its from July 24-27 at the beautiful Emerson College campus in the heart of Boston, MA. Stay tuned for more soon--

Today is the day! Send us your applications by 11:59pm EST tonight to attend #ComSciCon24 this summer! Connect with other #scicomm experts, develop your skills, have fun meeting people from all over the world. We look forward to meeting you! Apply here: bit.ly/3uMJGv2

Another successful Brain Awareness Day on March 23rd! 🧠 Thank you to our fantastic co-presidents, Amanda Salazar & Bethany Pierce for organizing this event, all our student volunteers for showing up, and Kaleideum for hosting us! #brainawarenessday

Congratulations Amanda!! Can’t wait to see what you do next 🤩🎉💗

Thanks to everyone who came out for our first Wake Forest Translational Alcohol Reseach Center Student Research Showcase. All the talks and posters were outstanding and congrats to the winners of the poster competition (1st- Olivia Ortelli, 2nd- Aditi Buch & Stacy Pitcairn, M.S.)!

Hey that’s me 😁 Can’t wait to meet the upcoming #ComSciCon24 participants! 🎉

If you have any interest in a preclinical perspective on salience encoding and alcohol use disorder, be sure to come by our session at RSoA tomorrow (Tues, June 24, 9:15-10:30, Nicollet D) featuring Karina Possa Abrahao Nathan Marchant Kristine Yoon & woody hopf

Watch out for these creatures of the deep during your next beach trip! 🦈 Inspired by the movie “Jaws”, let’s take a dive into how sharks use their brains to navigate the ocean and hunt down prey. #shark #sharkbrain #Jaws Post designed by Stacy Pitcairn, M.S.

Super excited to be at ComSciCon for this year’s Flagship Conference! We have so many incredible speakers lined up over the next few days. #comscicon24 has officially begun to take over Boston!

What’s one benefit of doing neuroscience research? Traveling to CONFERENCES! ✈️ This past June several Wake Forest Biomedical Graduate Programs students attended the 2024 Research Society on Alcohol Meeting in Minneapolis, MN to present their research on alcohol and the brain! 🧠🍻Wake Forest Graduate Programs in Neuroscience Wake Forest IPP Graduate Program

Had the best time working on the organizing committee to put together the ComSciCon Flagship Workshop in Boston this past week! So grateful to work with such creative, energetic, and brilliant people and continue developing impactful ways to talk about science to the public.

✨Wake Student Spotlight✨- Stacy Pitcairn in the Jeff Weiner lab, who is researching the relationship between stress & alcohol use Stacy Pitcairn, M.S. Wake Forest Graduate Programs in Neuroscience Wake Forest Biomedical Graduate Programs

Congrats Olivia Ortelli on developing the first operant choice procedure integrating the Hank Samson sipper tube model. Can't wait to see what your studies reveal!!

Can’t think of someone more hardworking and deserving of this good news - congratulations Olivia! ☺️🎉

I’m excited to share Sarrah Ankeny’s and my first first-author publication, “Navigating the Landscape of Plasma Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease: Focus on Past, Present, and Future Clinical Applications”, is now available in Neurology and Therapy! Check it out at the link below:

You've seen a lot of the devastation around Asheville this weekend. I just want to share some photos I took during a yet-to-be-published reporting project in Western North Carolina last year. Appalachia is too beautiful for us to give up. We must help our neighbors rebuild.

Really excited to have this out. Thanks to the brilliant work of Olivia Ortelli, we now have a rodent operant ethanol/sucrose choice procedure based on the classic Samson sipper tube drinking paradigm. doi.org/10.1016/j.addi…

How do brain cells talk to each other? 🧠Wake Forest PhD student Colin McArdle talks about synaptic communication in his recently published blog post in cogbites! For more info, check it out below ⬇️ cogbites.org/2025/01/27/syn…