Author Archives: Kennedy Bell

We are incredibly proud of undergraduate lab members Taanvii Verma (UNC Senior) and Sathvika Kommera (UNC Junior) for presenting their research posters at UNC’s 27th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research. Both students represented the lab exceptionally well and showcased their hard work and dedication to research.

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 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...

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.

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...