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✨I’m beyond honored to share that I’m a recipient of the 2026 NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP)! 🧠🏆 The @nihgov OSNAP award recognizes trainees from across the country who are conducting exceptional neuroscience research & demonstrating outstanding potential as future scientists. To receive this national recognition as a grad student is one of the greatest honors of my career — & something I truly *never* would’ve imagined. What means even more to me is what this award represents for #OCD research — the opportunity to present my research on the neurobiology of OCD at the NIH & (most importantly) advocate for the investment, urgency, & support that #OCD research so deeply deserves. Representing the OCD community at the world’s leading biomedical research institution is a privilege I will never take for granted. Receiving this news while presenting at my 5th @IOCDF #OCDCon2026, surrounded by my OCD community, was beyond special. It was a powerful reminder that everything I do begins & ends with our lived experience & our shared commitment to ending the suffering caused by this devastating illness. I’m immensely grateful to every incredible human being who has believed in me, encouraged me, collaborated with me, & helped me get to this point. Thank you to my incredible thesis advisor Dr. Michael Cahill @cahill_lab, & my amazing bonus mentor Dr. Carolyn Rodriguez @crodriguezmdphd, for believing in me unconditionally as my whole self & supporting my dissertation research AND advocacy — I truly wouldn’t be here without you. And thank you to my mentors & collaborators past & present, the NIH, & every person & funding source who has invested in me + this work! 🙏🏾 For far too long, OCD has remained profoundly trivialized, underfunded, & understudied despite being one of the most disabling, debilitating, & deadly illnesses. This is SO much bigger than me — it’s a huge win for our community & for OCD research, & an incredible opportunity to help move us closer to the lifesaving investment, scientific breakthroughs, & hope our community has ALWAYS deserved. I’m ecstatic to celebrate this with you all! 🥹🫶🏾 #mentalhealth #neuroscience Graphic announcing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2026 Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award. The dark blue graphic features the NIH logo at the top, the title “2026 NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award,” a professional headshot of Uma R. Chatterjee, and a description of the award program. Along the bottom is the Cahill Lab logo and the title of the recipient’s research project: “Bridging Genetic Risk to Neurobiological Mechanisms: A Region-Specific, Reverse-Translational Approach to OCD Pathophysiology.” Verbatim transcription National Institutes of Health Turning Discovery Into Health 2026 NIH OUTSTANDING SCHOLARS IN NEUROSCIENCE AWARD 2026 RECIPIENT The Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP) is designed to recognize those who are conducting exceptional neuroscience research across the nation and have great academic potential in their scientific training. UMA R. CHATTERJEE, MS PhD Candidate – Cahill Lab Neuroscience Training Program University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (Vertical text on right side) NIH OSNAP 2026 Bottom banner: CAHILL LAB BRIDGING GENETIC RISK TO NEUROBIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS: A REGION-SPECIFIC, REVERSE-TRANSLATIONAL APPROACH TO OCD PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
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💜 Thanks to the passion and advocacy of one remarkable graduate student, June is now officially Migraine & Headache Awareness Month in Texas. Mandee Schaub, a PhD candidate in the Systems and Cellular Neuroscience Track at UT Dallas, has dedicated herself to helping people living with headache disorders. Mandee's journey with migraine has stretched from the lab bench to Capitol Hill. Most recently, she brought her advocacy to the Texas Governor's office, resulting in an official proclamation of June as Migraine & Headache Awareness Month in Texas, raising statewide recognition of the condition. Watch the video to see why Mandee stands out — as both a scientist and a human. If this story moves you, share it to help spread migraine awareness and honor the researchers and advocates making a difference. #MigraineAwarenessMonth #HeadacheAwareness #MigraineResearch #Neuroscience #PhDLife #GradStudentLife
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@spectrumnews1tx highlighted our Experiential Medical Reasoning course, where @ut_dallas premed students step into a Minecraft hospital to diagnose and treat fictional patients. Recent neuroscience grad Sahar Bavandi BS'26 shared what this experience meant to her journey. Read the full story to see how the BBS Department of @utdneuroscience is meeting students where they are — and preparing them for what's ahead. Read the full story on our bio. (BBS Stories) #neuroscience #Premed #utdallas #Minecraft A screenshot of the Spectrum News 1 webpage featuring the Minecraft medical reasoning story.
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#Whoosh 💫 The School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences team has done it again, bringing the Brain Bowl trophy back to campus for the fifth time! Led by Dr. Rukhsana Sultana, a team of BBS juniors and seniors competed in one of the most rigorous neuroscience quiz competitions in Texas — covering neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, brain and behavior, and drugs and the brain — and brought home the win. 🏆 We couldn't be more proud! 🎉 Read the full story in our BBS Stories page (link in bio). #UTDallas #CometPride #Neuroscience #BrainScience #CollegeLife #STEMStudents #Champions @ut_dallas
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we’re baaaaaack! the spring semester officially starts tomorrow, but Sadler Lab members have been hard at work over the break! Nya, Zulmary, and Ashley held down the fort while — 1) Kate and McKenna went to the @universityofky for some top secret science, 2) Mackenzie road tripped to the @uofoklahoma to nail down her anaerobic culture technique, and 3) Kate went to Waco for a writing retreat with other @utdneuroscience junior faculty. Can’t wait to see what we get up to this semester!
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Meet Rayan Jeddy — a neuroscience senior and undergraduate researcher in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 🧠📚 He walked us through a typical Tuesday, balancing classes, his work in the Yousuf Lab and a little time to study along the way. 🔬 Curious about the paths and opportunities that can help you reach your goals at BBS? Learn more in our bio link. ✨ #UTDBBS #Neuroscience #CometLife @ut_dallas @utdpaincenter
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Hi there! It's #FluorescenceFriday and today we are back with a Halloween-colored image of a pig dorsal root ganglion. 🧙‍♀️🐷 RNAscope in situ hybridization: 🟣🟢🟠 - three different sensory neuron subpopulation markers 🔵 DAPI - nuclei 📸: Dr. Stephanie Shiers @science_glitter #FluorescenceFriday #ScienceArt #Neurobiology #FluorescenceMicroscopy #PainResearch #SpookyScience
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💫 Double, double, toil and trouble… neurons glow and microglia bubble 💚💜 Immunofluorescence: 🟢 AMIGO-1 - cortical neurons 🟣 Iba1 - microglia 🔵 DAPI - nuclei It's giving witch energy 🧙‍♀️🧹 📸: Dr. Stephanie Shiers @science_glitter @utdpaincenter #FluorescenceFriday #ScienceArt #Neurobiology #FluorescenceMicroscopy #PainResearch #SpookyScience
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🌟 Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🌟 "The Cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff" -Carl Sagan This mosaic confocal image shows dissociated human dorsal root ganglion neurons, looking like a constellation in a dish. 🌠 💫 Immunofluorescence: 🟡 Peripherin - sensory neurons and their branching axonal fibers 🔵 DAPI - nuclei Who knew the pain sensory system could be so beautiful? Time for some star gazing 🤩 📸: Dr. Stephanie Shiers @science_glitter @utdpaincenter #Neuroscience #Microscopy #Confocal #PainResearch #CarlSagan #ScienceArt @microscopy.photos
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🧠✨ Step into the science behind your superpowers! Join UT Dallas School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences faculty at the Davis Library this Sunday for hands-on experiments that explore how your brain controls your body, thoughts, and senses. @planolibrary
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✨ It’s #FluorescenceFriday! ✨ Today’s image is of a human dorsal root ganglion (DRG). Sensory neurons and their intricate fibers weave through this hub, carrying signals of touch, temperature, and pain to the spinal cord. 💫Immunofluorescence: 🟢 Peripherin – sensory neurons + their axons 🔴 Nav1.7 – voltage-gated sodium channel critical for pain signaling 🔵 DAPI – nuclei Science or art? I say both. 💫 📸: Dr. Stephanie Shiers @science_glitter #MicroscopyArt #Neuroscience #PainResearch #Microscopy
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🥳 Big congrats to two remarkable professors! 🎉 This semester, @bbsutdallas faculty members Catherine Thorn, PhD, and Ben Kolber, PhD, were promoted to associate professor with tenure and professor, respectively. Happy to see your success and looking forward to your future discoveries! Catherine Thorn is also a member of the Texas Biomedical Device Center and Ben Kolber is a member of the Center for Advanced Pain Studies. Congrats to all the faculty that received promotions across @ut_dallas. #facultypromotion #academicexcellence #professorlife #neurosciencefaculty
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