{"id":4488,"date":"2025-12-09T13:25:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:55:18","slug":"congratulations-to-erica-branham-from-our-lab-who-was-selected-to-present-a-short-talk-at-the-3rd-annual-duke-maixner-pain-research-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/2025\/12\/congratulations-to-erica-branham-from-our-lab-who-was-selected-to-present-a-short-talk-at-the-3rd-annual-duke-maixner-pain-research-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Erica Branham from our lab who was selected to present a short talk at the 3rd annual Duke Maixner Pain Research Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">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 committed to using translational epigenetics to advance chronic pain science and improve patient outcomes. She was awarded an &#8220;Innovators of Tomorrow Award for Pain Science&#8221; recognizing the significance of her work in advancing the understanding and treatment of pain and was selected to give a short talk at the 3rd Annual Duke Maixner Pain Research Symposium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8306-1-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8306-1-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8306-1-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8306-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8306-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8306-1-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8306-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8338-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8338-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8338-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8338-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8338-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8338-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8338-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8338.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 committed to using translational epigenetics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/2025\/12\/congratulations-to-erica-branham-from-our-lab-who-was-selected-to-present-a-short-talk-at-the-3rd-annual-duke-maixner-pain-research-symposium\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Congratulations to Erica Branham from our lab who was selected to present a short talk at the 3rd annual Duke Maixner Pain Research Symposium\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116376,"featured_media":4507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375-300x400.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375-768x1024.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375-1024x1365.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1374\/2025\/12\/IMG_8375-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"PhD Candidate Erica Branham with her Innovators of Tomorrow Award for Pain Science","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/linnstaedtlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}