Science has no gender! 🔬🧬🥼🔭 We need to support girls & empower more #WomenInScience to address global challenges & create a better future for all. Saturday is the International Day of Women & Girls in Science. unesco.org/en/days/women-… via UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳

Last year #GCC was my first conference as a PhD student. This year was Pooja’s (my amazing undergrad) first time presenting a poster and Dr. Diana Tavares Ferreira first talk as a P.I! I wonder what first things will happen at GCC 2025? First talk? We’ll see… See you next year #Houston

Today we had a #TotalSolarEclipse for lunch!

Our paper is on preprint, uncovering a molecular mechanism potentially involved in human chronic neck pain in patients susceptible to infiltration of IgG4-producing B cells. Ted Price director of CAPS at UT Dallas UW Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine UW Clear Center #ChronicPain medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to cognition & neuroscience doctoral student Marisol Moreno for placing third in the annual PhD Student Poster Competition and Art Showcase!! To read more about the competition and her research, go to ow.ly/JiGn50UoQUn

This project is a huge team effort between my lab (led by Derek Howard) and Angelika Lampert (led by the incredibly talented Jannis Koerner, MD) with contributions from an amazing cast of DRG / pain luminaries, like @UTDPainLab, Will Renthal, and Shams, and more. 2/

Go check out our new paper on spatial transcriptomics of human sympathetic chain ganglia! Huge thanks Saad Yousuf, PhD and Center for Advanced Pain Studies for trusting me with this awesome project.