Troy did a stellar job on his qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy for the doctoral degree in the UIC GEMS PhD program. Troy also won a presentation award for his e-poster at the Center for CardioVascular Research Day in September 2020.
Welcome Quinton Crisman
Quinton Crisman joined the lab as an undergraduate research fellow. His main project is to investigate how COVID-19 alters the blood-brain barrier. Outside the lab, Quinton’s interests include rock climbing and performing improv comedy at Second City.
Best Poster Award
Troy Trevino tied for first place in the best poster award competition at the Center for CardioVascular Research Conference, for his work on chemokines and BBB permeability.
Travel Award
Andrea Ochoa-Raya was competitively selected for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for their Travel Award to attend the Autumn Immunology Conference in November 2019. Andrea will present her work utilizing whole-organ clearing strategies to characterize regional differences in the blood-spinal cord barrier.
NeuroImmunology Symposium in St. Louis
Dr. Lutz will present November 20, 2019 at the Washington University College of Medicine CNNB NeuroImmunology Symposium and poster session. Details and registration at https://cnnd.wustl.edu/upcoming-events/
Undergraduate Fellowship Awarded
Congratulations Harry, a rising senior Biology major at UIC, for receiving a merit-based award from LASURI to support his research addressing the protein Caveolin-1 in neurovascular inflammation. Harry previously received the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Award.
Presentations at AIC
Poster Presentation @ the Autumn Immunology Conference 2018. Our group gave a talk (presented by Liz) and poster (lead author Troy). We’ll be back again next year!
Lab Multiple Sclerosis Walk Chicago
Travel Award Congratulations
Congrats to Troy Trevino for receiving a travel award from the UIC GEMS program to present his work at the Cold Spring Harbor Blood-Brain Barrier meeting #CSHLBBB
New lab members
Congratulations to new lab member Andrea Ochoa-Raya for being awarded fellowships from LASURI and from the Latin@s Gaining Access to Networks for Advancement in Science (L@SGANAS) for undergraduate research at UIC in the Lutz lab. Welcome also to lab volunteer Elizabeth Pietruczyk and UIC undergrad Mary Horne.