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3rd Annual Linnstaedt Lab March Madness Challenge

April 7, 2026
Congratulations to Brittanie, winner of the 3rd Annual Linnstaedt Lab March Madness Challenge. With an impressive 142 points, she predicted a UConn vs. Michigan National Championship matchup and correctly selected Michigan to win. Her bracket ultimately outperformed the rest of the lab in what was a very tight race.

Senior Undergraduate Student Taanvii Verma Presents Honors Thesis

March 27, 2026
Senior undergraduate student Taanvii Verma presented her honors thesis, titled “Memory of Pain: Hippocampal Correlates and Translational Data on Early Life Adversity and Risk for Posttraumatic Pain in Humans and Rodents.” We are incredibly proud of Taanvii’s growth, dedication, and enthusiasm for the lab’s research, and we are excited to...

Three Trainees from the Linnstaedt Lab Present Four Posters at USASP

March 26, 2026
Dr. Sarah Linnstaedt, along with trainees Erica Branham, Kennedy Bell, and Taanvii Verma, attended the annual United States Association for the Study of Pain (USASP) meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The team presented four posters highlighting their latest research and showcasing the lab’s ongoing work.

The Linnstaedt Lab Co-Authors New Science Immunology Paper with the Laumet Lab

February 20, 2026
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...

Linnstaedt Lab Collaborates with the O’Donovan’s Lab on New Study Published in Psychological Medicine

February 19, 2026
 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...