January 28, 2025: Ian presents for the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at Emory University.
April, 2025: Crystal Dezha-Bolteada has joined the Wenker Lab as a first year graduate student – welcome Crystal!
May 5, 2025: Ian and Co-I, Brant Isakson, are award a Transformative Neuroscience Pilot Grant from UVA’s Brain Institute to study “The Cardiovascular Regulation of Seizures and SUDEP.”
May 13, 2025: Dr. DuBar wins Best Abstract honorable mention at the Anesthesiology Celebration of research!
June, 2025: Miguel J. Fernández Batista joins the lab as part of the Summer Research Internship Program.
2024
December 2024: the crew goes to LA for the American Epilepsy Society (AES) and Partners Against Mortality in Epilepsy (PAME) annual meetings!
September 24, 2024: Ian presents for the Neuroscience Graduate Program at UVA.
April 18, 2024: Sebastian presents at UVA’s Undergraduate Research Symposium.
2023
December 5, 2023: Ian presents at the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting.
November 13, 2023: Ian presents in the Respiratory Rhythm Nanosymposium at Neuroscience 2023 in Washington, D.C.
November 9, 2023: UVA Epilepsy Interest Group Retreat.
October 2023: Published “A Water Nymph’s Curse and the Serotonergic Mechanism of Postictal Breathing Dysfunction.” EPILEPSY CURRENTS. doi: 10.1177/15357597231199340.
October 2023: Marissa Incer and Selena Garcia DuBar have joined the lab – welcome aboard!
September 2023: Published “Neuronal plasticity contributes to postictal death.” PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2023.102531.
June 2023: The Wenker Lab moved into a new lab space in Old Medical School – yay!
June 2023: Wenker was awarded an R01 from NINDS to study “The Neural Circuitry of Seizure-Induced Apnea and SUDEP” (6th percentile).
May 2023: Published “Waiting to Inhale: Preventing Fatality from Seizure-Induced Apnea.” EPILEPSY CURRENTS. doi: 1177/15357597231159466.
2022
Wenker presents at the American Epilepsy Society Investigators Workshop – The Neurocircuitry of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Insights from CURE Epilepsy, in Nashville, TN.
Wenker was awarded an Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award from the DOD to study “Mechanisms of Seizure-Induced Death of TSC Model Mice”.
Published “Forebrain epileptiform activity is not required for seizure-induced apnea in a mouse model of Scn8a epilepsy.” FRONTIERS IN NEURAL CIRCUITS. doi:3389/fncir.2022.1002013.
Wenker presents at the Gordon Conference: Mechanisms of Epilepsy and Neural Synchronization, in Barcelona, ES.
Published “Peri-Ictal Autonomic Control of Cardiac Function and Seizure-Induced Death.” FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE. doi:3389/fnins.2021.795145.
Wenker wins Best Presentation at the UVA Anesthesiology Department’s Celebration of Research.
