We want to give the biggest congratulations to Dr. Jenna Berger for passing her Final Ph.D. Defense and becoming the newest Sombers Lab Alumni! We can’t wait to see all the amazing things you’re going to accomplish. Congratulations Dr. Berger, we couldn’t be more proud!

Congratulations to new Sombers lab alumni, Dr. Jovica Todorov! He will be continuing working with the lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher while we settle into our new lab. Congratulations Dr. Todorov, we are so proud of you!

We want to send the biggest congratulations out to Dr. Chathuri De Alwis! Your smile always lights up the room, and we will certainly miss you around the lab. Dr. De Alwis, we cannot wait to see what you accomplish. Congratulations!

The Sombers lab has 2 new alumni, Dr. Dylan Denison and Dr. Alexandra Forderhase! We are so excited for you and cannot wait to see what your future holds! We will miss you very much, thank you for your years of hard work, mentorship, and excellent science!

We are so excited to welcome Hannah Sumner (senior), Emily Phillips (sophomore), Kaffie Kirby (freshman), and Kayleigh Linder (first year graduate student) to our lab! We cannot wait to see all you will accomplish!

The Sombers lab had the great opportunity to engage with the community at Brain Night 2023. We had several educational activities and Jenna gave a public talk!

The Sombers lab traveled to Philadelphia to present their research at Pittcon 2023. Talks were given by Alex, Dylan, Chathuri, Jovica, Jenna, Kalynn, and Laney. Great time had by all!

Alex and Laney both presented posters, and listened to lectures from some of the top neuroscientists in the world.

The 2021 school year is well underway, but at the end of summer we were all able to rendezvous outside for a quick photo! Our current group has expanded. Please see our research team link for more information about our stellar new post-doc., undergraduates, and graduate researchers!

Undergraduate researchers Lailah Ligons, Laney Kimble, Emilie Norwood, Ruby Shah, and Lauren Lamothe presented their work at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium

Lailah Ligons presents her work in employing enzyme-modified electrodes for use in neuroenergetics investigations at the summer undergraduate research symposium

Lailah posing with her poster!

Emilee Norwood presents work with using FSCV to detect non-electroactive species via enzymatic activity

Kaylnn Turner works with detecting two electroactive species of interest: dopamine and hydrogen peroxide. Simultaneous detection will empower work investigating chemical relationships

Ruby Shah is working on characterizing a novel double-barrel electrode for simultaneous detection of two separate analytes while on a single, isolated cell model.

Catherine Denisowski (left) with her research mentor Dylan Denison (right) pose in front of her poster detailing work in creating an electrode-petri dish hybrid

Lauren Lamothe’s work investigates the fundamentals of enkephalin detection and release in brain slices. Lauren (right, next to poster) is pictured with her research mentor Jenna Berger (far left).

Laney Kimble works on enzyme-modified electrodes for chemically selective detection of glutamate in the brain