2025
December 2025 – The lab received a Whitehall Foundation Grant
August 2025 – Yasmeen is reappointed to the Neurobiology of Information Storage (NISTP) T32 Training Grant
August 2025 – Yasmeen speaks at the Cannabinoid Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) in New Hampshire
August 2025 – Yasmeen is elected as co-chair for the 2027 Cannabinoid Gordon Research Seminar
July 2025 – The lab was awarded Northwestern’s 2025 Illumina Pilot Grant to support single-cell RNA sequencing
June 2025 – Shana presents research findings at the Research Society on Alcohol conference in New Orleans as part of the symposium titled, “Striato-Pallidal Circuitry and Alcohol: Decoding its Role in Risk Behaviors and Addiction”
June 2025 – Yasmeen presents a poster at the Research Society on Alcohol conference in New Orleans
June 2025 – Lab welcomes Nathan Mbonu, summer research student in Northwestern’s Bioscientist Program.
April 2025 – Lab welcomes Ana Isabel Silva De Sousa, NUIN rotation student (NUIN Student Profiles).
2024
September 2024 – Dr. Luana Freese, Research Associate, joins the lab!
September 2024 – Anthony wins travel award to attend The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS)!
September 2024 – Yasmeen and Anthony present their work at the 18th Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day at Northwestern University.
September 2024 – Yasmeen and Anthony present their research at the 2024 Department of Pharmacology Annual Retreat – “Keep it Simple! Communicating complex data to a broader audience”
August 2024 – Dr. Emilce Artur de la Villarmois, Postdoctoral Fellow, joins the lab!
August 2024 – Yasmeen passes her qualifying exam and becomes a PhD candidate
July 2024 – Yasmeen is appointed the Neurobiology of Information Storage Training Program (NISTP) Grant.
June 2024 – Shana presents work at Fudan University in Shanghai, China – Neuromodulation in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
June 2024 – Shana participated as an instructor at the 3rd Annual Joint Conference for the Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CURA) Mentoring Institute for Neuroscience Diversity Scholars (MINDS) (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
June 2024 – Shana presents alcohol research at the Research Society of Alcohol Scientific Meeting as part of the Advancing Alcohol Research: Genetically Encoded Biosensors as Tools for Neurobiological and Behavioral Discovery
May 2024 – Shana presents at the Northwestern University Special Event – Centering Black Women Instructors.
April 2024 – Yasmeen presents at DePaul University for an undergraduate seminar – Conversations with Neuroscientists (Chicago, IL).
March 2024 – Shana presents her work at Indiana University, Bloomington – Gill Seminar Series
March 2024 – Shana joins ACNP Diversity and Inclusion Committee – BIPOC Subcommittee
February 2024 – Shana presents her work at the Gordon Research Conference – Translational Neuroscience of Alcohol: Integration of Basic and Clinical Research (Minneapolis, MN).
January 2024 – Shana becomes Co-chair for the Department of Pharmacology Annual Retreat.
2023
September 2023 – Yasmeen Lowe wins poster presentation award at the Department of Pharmacology retreat!
September 2023 – Shana presents her work at the Northwestern University’s Department of Pharmacology Retreat: Diversifying Science (Chicago, IL).
September 2023 – Anthony R. James Jr., Postbacc Research Fellow, joins the lab.
September 2023 – Lab welcomes Lisa Kim, NUIN rotation student.
August 2023 – Shana’s work is published in Neuropsychopharmacology!
August 2023 – Sandra Ghobrial, visiting researcher, visits lab.
July 2023 – Shana presents works at the Gordon Research Conference – Cannabinoid Functions in CNS, Synaptic Effects of (Endo)cannabinoids (Castelldefels, Spain).
June 2023 – Shana King, Master student at Wayne State University, visits lab.
June 2023 – Shana participated as an instructor at the 2nd Annual Joint Conference for the Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CURA) Mentoring Institute for Neuroscience Diversity Scholars (MINDS) (Hollywood, FL, USA).
April 2023 – Yasmeen Lowe, NUIN Graduate student joins the lab.
March 2023 – Shana joins the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
March 2023 – Shana presents her work at Wayne State University for the Expanded Programming for Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Create Unique Research Missions (EPIC-URM) (Detroit, MI, USA).
February 2023 – Shana joins the BRAIN Initiative Conference Training and DEIA Committee.
January 2023 – Lab welcomes Yasmeen Lowe, NUIN rotation student.
January 2023 – Joins BRAIN Initiative Conference Program Committee.
2022
October 2022 – Shana presents her work at the Division of Neurology at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago – The Interdisciplinary Lecture Series in Neuroscience for The Department of Pediatrics (Chicago, IL, USA).
October 2022 – Shana presents her work at the University of Chicago NIDA T32 Annual Retreat (Chicago, IL, USA).
October 2022 – Shana joins The Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience.
March 2022 – Augustin Lab opens its doors!
March 2022 – Shana joins the NIDA Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CUDA) Scholar Program.
February 2022 – Shana’s work is published in the Neurobiology of Disease!
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