News
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Graduate students Alice Woolard and Brittanie Winfield presented at the RNA Discovery Center Retreat
We were excited to participate in the 2025 RNA Discovery Center Retreat and graduate students, Alice Woolard and Brittanie Winfield had a great time presenting their projects to fellow RNA biologists!
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Six trainees from the Linnstaedt Lab present their research at the United States Association for the Study of Pain (USASP) Conference in Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Sarah Linnstaedt, Dr. Lauren McKibben, Erica Branham, Alice Woolard, Brittanie Winfield, Miranda Layne, and Meghna Iyer all attended the United States Association for the Study of Pain (USASP) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, where they shared their latest research findings.
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Congratulations to Dr. Lauren McKibben and team on the acceptance of our manuscript in Translational Psychiatry!
We’re thrilled to congratulate Dr. Lauren McKibben, Meghna Iyer, Ying Zhao, Erica Branham and our external collaborators on the acceptance of “Transcriptional changes across tissue and time provide molecular insights into a therapeutic window of opportunity following traumatic stress exposure” in Translational Psychiatry! Congrats team!!!
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Linnstaedt Lab SPENGA Team Bonding Event
The Linnstaedt Lab participated in a SPENGA fitness class led by our very own graduate student, Brittanie Winfield. This was a fun and energizing workout that encouraged teamwork and promoted wellness across the group. You know what they say…. Those who work out together, stay together! 😉
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Lab members Amanda Xu and Rahul Shah presented posters at the 26th annual Undergraduate Celebration of Research at .
We are so proud of our Undergraduate Students, Amanda Xu and Rahul Shah, who did an amazing job presenting posters of their research projects at ’s 26th Annual Undergraduate Celebration of Research.
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Linnstaedt Lab Reaches a Milestone of 100 Published Manuscripts!
The Linnstaedt Lab is thrilled to announce that we’ve reached an incredible milestone of 100 published manuscripts! We’re incredibly proud of our team’s dedication, collaboration, and hard work.
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2nd Annual Linnstaedt Lab March Madness Challenge
Congratulations to Miranda, the winner of the 2nd Annual Linnstaedt Lab March Madness Challenge, with an impressive 115 points! Despite picking Duke to win (unfortunately), her bracket outperformed the rest of the lab.
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Dr. Linnstaedt presents the lab’s research at the Triangle RNA Research-in-Progress meeting held at Duke University
We are very appreciative of the opportunity to present our RNA-focused research and to engage with the local community of RNA biologists.
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Our lab’s manuscript on early life adversity and chronic posttraumatic pain was accepted for publication in PAIN.
Congratulations to Dr. Lauren McKibben, Alice Woolard, Ying Zhao, Jacqueline Mickelson, and Taanvii Verma from our lab for acceptance of their paper entitled “Early life adversity increases risk for chronic posttraumatic pain, data from humans and rodents” in PAIN, January 2025.
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Dr. McKibben submits three first-author papers in the last four months.
Dr. Lauren McKibben has recently submitted three manuscripts that are now available on medRxiv and bioRxiv servers. These include: Early Life Adversity Increases Risk for Chronic Posttraumatic Pain: Data from Humans and Rodents Peritraumatic C-Reactive Protein Levels Predict Pain Outcomes Following Traumatic Stress Exposure in a Sex-Dependent Manner Transcriptional Changes Across Tissue and Time Provide Molecular Insights into a … Read more