August 2023: Dr. J is part of an international collaboration that published a research topic on Reproducbility in Neuroscience! Check out our editorial at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnint.2023.1271818/full
August 2023: Dr. J took the #Mentor First pledge!
August 2023: Dr. J was inaugurated as the President-Elect for the Graduate Women in Science!
August 2023: Dr. J has been invited by NINDS to speak about reproducibility at the upcoming Society for Neuroscience Meeting in 2023!
August 2023: Petter from the #JadavjiLab is presenting data investigating one-carbon metabolism and ischemic stroke patients this week at the
Boehringer Ingelheim 2023 Veterinary Scholars Symposium. He has been working in the lab for the last 2 months as a College of Veterinary fellow!
August 2023: Brooklyn Flynn, a DO student joins the #JadavjiLab to work on the faculty collaboration research project!
July 2023: Dr. J spoke about the brain to kids at Guidepost Montessori. With her little one in tow.
July 2023: #JadavjiLab presented data at the annual American Society for Nutrition meeting on our maternal nutrition and Drosophila projects.
July 2023: The #Jadavji Lab turns 4!!
June 2023: Annual #JadavjiLab meeting @repro4everyone
presentation today! Yay reproducible science!
June 2023: Today the #JadavjiLab members wrote our lab values. I am so proud of what we came up with. Good first draft, looking forward to developing this further in the years to come.
June 2022: Dr. J is excited to share that she was selected by Graduate Women in Science for the Jean E. Simmons Award for Science Education Excellence! She is honored!
May 2023: Lilah Manfredi a high school student at at Sandra Day O'Connor that started a research project this summer in the #JadavjiLab
May 2023: Abbey McKee, a DO student, joins the #JadavjiLab to complete her summer research project! Welcome Abbey!
April 2023: Student doctor Joshi was awarded the Kenneth Saurez Research Fellowship to complete a research project in the #JadavjiLab this summer! Her work will focus on vascular dementia! We are excited to have her continue working in the labortory!
April 2023: Medical students completing their research projects in the #JadavjiLab presented their work at the AZ Osteopathic Medical Association! Way to go team!
April 2023: I am a #proudPI! The #JadavjiLab students knocking it out of the park today presenting their research :)
April 2023: Alisha Harrison joins the #JadavjiLab. We are so excited for her to be part of the team!
March 2023: Student Doctor Joshi presented her research at Abrazo Health Research Day! #JadavjiLab #ProudPI
March 2023: Dr. J attended the GSA #Dros23 to present new data from the lab and speak at the Careers in Academia panel.
March 2023: D.r J had the opportunity to speak with Clara Wajngurt about how the environment can change the brain! With a focus on bullying and our work with the @AcademicParity
movement and the important work this organization is doing. Thanks Clara!!
Watch the interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JpOvRu4pc
March 2023: The #JadavjiLab welcomes Petter Burrows our 2023 College of Veterinary Medicine Fellow.
February 2023: Dr. J organized a Promotion in Academia webinar through her work with the ASN Early Career Nutrition Interest Group.
February 2023: #JadavjiLab lunch fun at Cafe Rumba!
January 2023: #JadavjiLab has been awarded a grant from the AZ Department of Health Sciences
January 2023: Amanda Covaleski, B.S. joins the #JadavjiLab as a Research Assistant! Welcome Amanda!
January 2023: Manogna Nuthi, BS joins the #JadavjiLab! Manogna is a DO student and we are so excited to have her in the lab!
January 2023: Siddarth Gunnala, BS presented the research project he will be doing in the #JadavjiLab at graduate seminar series class, and knocked it out of the park!
December 2022: #JadavjiLab's study titled, 'Maternal dietary deficiencies in folates or choline worsen stroke outcome in adult male and female mice offspring' accepted for publication in
Neural Regeneration Research.
December 2022: Lauren Hurley a Research Assistant in the lab was selected for an oral presentation at the Phi Zeta Research Day.
Lauren won several awards during the meeting, including: 1st place Research Oral Presentation, 1st place Basic Science Research poster, and Best in Show.
November 2022: Sidd Gunnala, BS joins the #JadavjiLab to complete his Biomedical Sciences graduate thesis!
October 2022: Dr. J and #JadavjiLab profiled in the Millipore Sigma My Next Great Impossible
October 2022: Dr. J speaks to mentors about the importance of mentoring #WomenInSTEM.
October 2022: Alice and Mary-Tyler joint the #JadavjiLab. We are so excited for them to join the lab!
October 2022: #JadavjiLab members present data at the AZ Physiological Society.
September 2022: Three new DO students have joined the #JadavjiLab to start their research projects. We are so happy to have them join the lab!
September 2022: Dr. J presented new data from #JadavjiLab funded by the American Heart Association at the AZ AD Consortium Meeting.
September 2022: Dr. J is appointed to the Department of Child Health at University of Arizona.
September 2022: Dr. J has been accepted into 2022 Nutrition Leadership Academy, Organized by ASN ECN.
August 2022: Dr. J attends the Research Expo to recruit new students to the #JadavjiLab
July 2022: Dr. J joins the Graduate Women in Science as Vice President!
July 2022: #JadavjiLab happy to collaboration with an international team of neuroscientists on this important topic. Our editorial along with research articles is available: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16896/the-role-of-epigenetics-in-neuropsychiatric-disorders#articles
July 2022: An annual #JadavjiLab tradition, taking about reproducible science!!
June 2022: Dr. Jadavji invited by the Journal of Young Investigators Executive Board to speak about her training and what it is like to be a neuroscientist! Thank-you! Check our the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Xr3ra4WZ8.
June 2022: Gyllan Yahn, MBS who is now a dental student, joins the #JadavjiLab as a Research Assistant for the summer! Welcome back!
June 2022: Jesse Jauhal is the second graduate student to graduate from the #JadavjiLab!
July 2022: Dr. J joins the American Society for Nutrition Early Career Research interest group as the Events Chair!
May 2022: Jesse Jauhal won the outstanding research award from the Biomedical Science Program.
May 2022: Jesse Jauhal successfully defended his master's thesis! He is the second graduate student from the #JadavjiLab!
May 2022: Sapna Virdi, MBS joins the #JadavjiLab for the summer of 2022!
May 2022: Purvaja Marella, B.S is awarded a Kenneth Suarez Research Fellowship to complete research in the #JadavjiLab over the summer!
April 2022: KAS Research Day at Midwestern University, members of the #JadavjiLab presented lots of data! #ProudPI
April 2022: Sarah Coonrod, CVM fellow in the lab presented her research the Experimental Biology meeting. Her poster was titled, 'The impact of maternal dietary deficiencies in folic acid and choline on offspring neuronal function after hypoxia.'
April 2022: Our abstract to the American Society for Nutrition has been selected for an oral presentation! Kasey is an RA in the #JadavjiLab that is leading this work!
April 2022: New preprint from #JadavjiLab! I am super excited to share this data on aged female mice, vitamin B12 deficiency, and ischemic stroke.
March 2022: Dr. J was invited to present data from the #JadavjiLab by Dr. Meekins Live Science Stream! Talk is on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJA8lzak8as&feature=youtu.be
February 2022: Jeemin Kang, MA joins the #JadavjiLab for her AZCOM research elective.
February 2022 : Dr. J is invited to join the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports as an Associate Editor!
January 2022: New blog post on the website outlining survey results about bullying in academia. This was done in collaboration with other scientists from around the world through the eLife Ambassador program.
https://www.jadavjilab.com/blog/archives/01-2022
October 2021: Dr. J and collaborators received funding from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to capture metrics of the faculty job search.
November 2021: Purvaja Marella, a first year AZCOM student joins the #JadavjiLab!
October 2021: Sharadyn Ille (CDMA) joins the #JadavjiLab as a Research Assistant!
October 2021: McCoy Clementson (AZCOM 2024) and Jesse Jauhal (MBS-2) present their research findings from the #JadavjiLab at the 2021 AZ Physiological Society meeting. They did us proud!
October 2021: Cooler weather has arrived in Phoenix! Time for a #JadavjiLab lab lunch!
October 2021: Dr. J spoke about how preprint benefit ECRs at the online ASPbio webinar.
September 2021: Dr. J spoke about being involved in Reproducibility 4 Everyone initiative to improve science at the Metascience 2021 meeting.
September 2021: Joshua Poole and Dr. J present data at 2021 Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium Annual Conference.
September 2021: Dr. J presented data from #JadavjiLab at the 13th International Conference One-Carbon Metabolism, B Vitamins and Homocysteine
July 2021: Summer is coming to a close. The #JadavjiLab celebrated a productive summer of research with lunch!
August 2021: #JadavjiLab posted our third pre-print, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.17.456684v1
June 2021: Dr. J was profiled by Sai Mannam at the Journal of Young Investigators Science Features article, https://www.jyi.org/2021-june/2021/6/8/interview-with-dr-nafisa-jadavji
June 2021: Kasey Pull, B.A. joins the Jadavji lab as a Research Assistant! We are very excited to have her onboard!
June 2021: Gyllian Yahn is the first #JadavjiLab graduate student! She is off to dental school next! We are so proud of you and can't wait to see what you do in the future!
June 2021: Sarah Coonrod joins the #JadavjiLab as a College of Veterinary Fellow!
May 2021: A nice lunch with the lab to close out the academic year. Working with students is a perk of being a professor.
May 2021: Gyllian Yahn successfully defends her thesis research!!! Yahoo! The first #JadavjiLab MBS student! We are all so proud!
May 2021: Congrats to McCoy Clementson and Joshua Poole for being awarded the Kenneth Saurez Fellowships to complete research in the Jadavji Laboratory over the 2021 summer!
April 2021: Dr. Jadavji joins the ASAPbio fellows program for 2021.
May 2021: #JadavjiLab published a paper! Congrats to Calli Bennett who drove this project!
Bennett C, Green J, Ciancio M, Goral J, Pitstick L, Pytynia M, Meyer A, Kwatra N, Jadavji NM*. Dietary folic acid deficiency impacts hippocampal morphology and cortical acetylcholine metabolism in adult male and female mice. Nutritional Neuroscience: In Press. DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.2021.1932242
April 2021: Weekly Jadavji Laboratory meeting. Students practicing for their Kenneth Saurez Research Day presentation!
March 2021: Shayley Jackson and Sarah Coonrod join the Jadavji Lab! Welcome!
March 2021: Gyllian Yahn MBS-2 student presented her thesis work at the annual International Stroke Conference (American Stroke Association).
December 2020: Data paper from Jadavji Laboratory posted a preprint on BioArxiv! A productive collaboration between our lab in Glendale and the Downers Grove campus! Huge congrats to Calli Bennett for driving this research!
Bennett C, Green J, Ciancio M, Goral J, Pitstick L, Pytynia M, Meyer A, Kwatra N, Jadavji NM#. Dietary folic acid deficiency impacts hippocampal morphology and cortical acetylcholine metabolism in adult male and female mice. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.13.422535v1
January 2021: The Jadavji laboratory is happy to contribute to Women in Neuroscience issue!
January 2021: The #Jadavjilab has our own research space! Yahoo!
December 2020: Lauren Hurley, CVM student joins the Jadavji Lab.
December 2020: A lab lunch during COVID-19 to that thank all the hardworking members of the Jadavji Lab and celebrate successes of 2020! Happy Holidays! Looking forward to the adventures 2021 will bring!
December 2020: Neha Kwatra, a dental student, doing research in the Jadavji Lab was awarded the very competitive Air Force Dental Health Profession Scholarship
Program (HPSP). Congrats Neha!
November 2020: Jesse Jauhal joins the Jadavji laboratory as a Master of Biomedical Sciences student.
November 2020: A collaboration between veterinary, medical, and dental students working in the Jadavji Laboratory
over the 2020 summer was published in Antioxidants, https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3921/9/11/1141/htm
November 2020 - Nafisa and collaborators posted a preprint describing a reproducibility initiative, https://osf.io/dxw67/ and exciting news about funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), https://repro4everyone.org/funding-announcement-czi/
November 2020 - McCoy Clementson, a first year AZCOM student joins the Jadavji Laboratory!
October 2020 - Nafisa joins the editorial board of Frontiers in Nutrition and Brian Health as an Associate Editor.
September 2020: Nafisa shares what she learned in graduate school at McGill University and how she has applied it to her scientific career, http://tracemcgill.com/nafisa-jadavji/
September 2020 - The Jadavji Lab is profiled in the Midwestern University Research Newsletter for successfully obtaining funding from the American Heart Association!
October 2020 - Nafisa shared some Jadavji Lab data at the University of Arizona Basic Medical Sciences Seminar Series.
September 2020: Welcome to Jeannine and Sean to the Jadavji Lab!
September 2020: Gyllian Yahn, an MBS-2 student in the lab, published her paper reviewing vitamin B12 and stroke outcome has been published in Neural Regeneration.
September 2020: Nafisa co-authored 'Towards inclusive funding practices for early career researchers' preprint available at https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/9sfm8
September 2020: Nafisa is invited to join the Editorial board of Frontiers in Nutrition - Nutrition and Brain Health
August 2020: Nafisa is featured in a Science Magazine article about the job market.
https://www.sciencemag.org/features/2020/08/daunting-doable-job-searching-after-postdoc
August 2020: Nafisa is profiled in DiscoveryPhDs offering advice from her PhD.
https://discoverphds.com/advice/interviews/dr-nafisa-m-jadavji
Thanks to
@discoverphds
for the opportunity.
July 2020: Nafisa accepted an invitation to join the Metabolites journal Reviewer Board.
August 2020: Nafisa presented data from the lab at the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Perspectives of Early and Mid-Career Researchers - NGI RIS. Recorded talk is available online at: https://nutrition.org/nutrient-gene-interactions-in-complex-diseases/
August 2020: Nafisa presented data from the lab at the virtual Folic Acid, Vitamin B12, and One-Carbon Metabolism Conference
July 2020: Nafisa was profiled in 46 questions in July 2020, read more here: https://46questions.wordpress.com/2020/07/31/nafisa-jadavji/
July 2020: We had a lab socially distanced summer lunch today! Good food and company!
June 2020: We are excited to announce that the Jadavji Laboratory was award an intramural grant from the Midwestern Alzheimer’s Advisory Committee (MAAC) and Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium (AAC) to conduct some aging research! We are very excited to start this research project!
June 2020 - Agnes Pascal joins the Jadavji lab as a senior lab specialist.
June 2020: Kassidy Burgess, BS joins the Jadavji Lab to complete a research fellowship during the summer of 2020! Welcome!
May 2020: Calli Bennett, BSc. was awarded the Kenneth A. Suarez Fellowship.
Forrest Bethel, MSc was also awarded a Kenneth A. Suarez Fellowship (FWS designation). Both will complete research projects in the Jadavji Lab this summer!
May 2020: We published a summary of our research on Atlas of Science website. Thanks to the help of Neha Kwarta, a dental student working in the lab. Our work can be read via this link,
https://atlasofscience.org/how-changes-in-our-genes-impact-outcome-after-stroke/
January 6th 2020:
Dr. Jadavji edited a book on how nutrition impacts diseases of aging for a lay audience. The book is available for purchase on Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B083TGR3L5
December 2019: Jadavji Lab celebration! We got our first grant 6 months after opening! So excited to start doing the research! Thank-you American Heart Association!
December 2019: Lab Holiday Lunch at Cafe Rumba! Happy Holidays!
Nafisa spent the first week of December 2019 collecting data with collaborators at the Downers Grove Midwestern University campus. After a long week of collecting data, we celebrated with a delicious lunch!
November 1 to 2nd 2019: Nafisa attended the AZ Physiological Society meeting this week. First time attending a scientific meeting as a #NewPI. Great mentee presentations! Also presented some of our new published data.
Thursday August 21st, 2019: Experiments starting in the lab! Exciting times!
Monday July 1st, 2019: First day of work at Midwestern University!