Author Archives: Kennedy Bell

Members of the Linnstaedt Lab are proud collaborators on a newly accepted manuscript led by The Laumet Lab at Michigan State University. By combining complementary expertise in human clinical cohorts and animal models, the teams demonstrated that IL-10–producing monocytes play a key role in resolving inflammatory pain and contribute to sex differences in...

 The Linnstaedt Lab is pleased to share the publication of our recent collaboration with Dr. Aoife O’Donovan’s Lab, titled Inflammatory markers in the emergency department and PTSD symptoms in the AURORA Study: a longitudinal cohort study, now published in Psychological Medicine.  This study examines whether inflammatory markers measured in the emergency department following...

Erica is a sixth-year PhD candidate in the Genetics and Molecular Biology program here at UNC, where she investigates epigenetic mechanisms underlying chronic pain after traumatic stress. In our lab, her work focuses on how DNA methylation in stress-regulatory and axon-guidance genes contributes to pain development, and she is deeply...

The Maixner Pain Research Symposium brings together pain researchers from across North Carolina to advance scientific discovery and improve care for individuals living with chronic pain. This year, ten members of our lab, including Erica Branham, Brittanie Winfield, Jacqueline Mickelson, Kennedy Bell, Miranda Layne, Meghna Iyer, Seka Shahriar, Taanvii Verma,...

Alice’s research in the Linnstaedt Lab focused on three important topics: 1 – understanding the relationship between childhood trauma and chronic post traumatic pain outcomes in adulthood, 2 – identifying microRNA expression changes in the early aftermath of traumatic stress exposure, and 3 – developing a protocol for a pilot randomized clinical...