January, 2023

The Smith Lab is open! We are currently recruiting graduate students, and a postdoctoral fellows. Please see the join page for details.

May 2023

Celebrating the end of our first semester with ice cream from White Mountain Creamery!

Lots of firsts in the past few months, including our first (significant!) data by Maura.

June 2023

Caroline travels to Bordeaux to participate in the Cajal Neuroscience Institute Course on Glial cells in Health and Disease. She spent the two weeks running behavior following immune and neural activations with students Emmy Hoeksema and Mikey Fanikos!

July 2023

Elise Martin joins the Smith Lab as a research assistant! Welcome Elise!

August 2023

Lab lunch to say farewell to Emma! Jason wasn’t able to attend, but we still found a way for him to have a burrito with us :)

September 2023

Three new undergraduate students join the lab! Welcome to Matt Kern, Niki Li, and Maddie Winters!

November 2023

Caroline and Maura attend the Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Maura does a fantastic job presenting her first poster in the lab, and Caroline co-chairs a symposium on “The Good, the Bad, and the Microglia…” with Drs. Annie Ciernia, Lior Brimberg, Ukpong Eyo, Katie Lenz, and Lindsay Hayes.

December 2023

The lab celebrates the holidays (and almost 1 year of existence!!) with a lab holiday party and lots of silliness - including a very well hidden elf-on-a-shelf, some brain surgery, and a pet rock.