Maura defends her master's thesis

02-07-2025

Maura Stoehr successfully defends her master's thesis, "Implications of prenatal environmental stressors for social behaviors and oxytocin and vasopressin expression in the hypothalamus," and obtains her masters degree! Congratulations Maura!

Dr. Staci Bilbo visits BC

11-10-2024

Dr. Staci Bilbo, Caroline's postdoc advisor, visits BC!

Joy Babalola presenting research at the 20th Annual McNair Scholars Program Research Symposium

07-24-2024

Niki Li presenting research at the 20th Annual McNair Scholars Program Research Symposium

07-23-2024

Summer meeting

07-03-2024

We have a lab get-together at Caroline’s house, and everyone gets to meet baby Dev (we all agree he is the cutest baby ever!!). The lab plays Out of the Loop for the first time and somehow it’s always Anthony who is out of the loop.

New members!

07-01-2024

We take new lab photos so we can include our two newest lab members: Anna Lally, research technician, and Anthony Djerdjaj, postdoctoral fellow! Welcome Anna and Anthony!

PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society Meeting

06-19-2024

Caroline and Maura attend the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society Meeting in Halifax, Canada. Maura presents a poster and Caroline meets with the PNIRS Communications Committee.

Caroline meets with the PNIRS Communications Committee

06-19-2024

Maura Stoehr presents a poster at the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society Meeting in Halifax, Canada

06-19-2024

Elise Martin presenting a poster at the Neurobiology of Stress Meeting in Boston, MA.

06-13-2024

Maura Stoehr presenting a poster at the Neurobiology of Stress Meeting in Boston, MA.

06-12-2024

Holiday celebration

12-24-2023

The lab celebrates the holidays (and almost 1 year of existence!!) with a lab holiday party and lots of silliness—including a very well hidden elf-on-a-shelf, some brain surgery, and a pet rock.

Our pet rock

12-23-2023

An elf hiding in the Smith Lab

12-23-2023

Conducting brain surgery...

12-23-2023

Society for Neuroscience Meeting

11-15-2023

Caroline and Maura attend the Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Maura does a fantastic job presenting her first poster in the lab, and Caroline co-chairs a symposium on “The Good, the Bad, and the Microglia…” with Drs. Annie Ciernia, Lior Brimberg, Ukpong Eyo, Katie Lenz, and Lindsay Hayes.

Maura presenting at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting

11-14-2023

New members

09-13-2023

Three new undergraduate students join the lab! Welcome to Matt Kern, Niki Li, and Maddie Winters!

Goodbye Emma

08-16-2023

Lab lunch to say farewell to Emma! Jason wasn’t able to attend, but we still found a way for him to have a burrito with us :)

New research assistant

06-21-2023

Elise Martin joins the Smith Lab as a research assistant! Welcome Elise!

Caroline with Emmy and Mikey in Bordeaux

06-08-2023

Cajal Neuroscience Institute course

06-07-2023

Caroline travels to Bordeaux to participate in the Cajal Neuroscience Institute Course on Glial cells in Health and Disease. She spent the two weeks running behavior following immune and neural activations with students Emmy Hoeksema and Mikey Fanikos!

Ice cream celebration

05-17-2023

Celebrating the end of our first semester with ice cream from White Mountain Creamery! Lots of firsts in the past few months, including our first (significant!) data by Maura.

Join us!

01-11-2023

The Smith Lab is open! We are currently recruiting graduate students, and a postdoctoral fellows. Please see the join page for details.