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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...

 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...