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Barbara Benowitz @BenowitzBarbara

Neuro PhD student at MUSC. Drug addiction • chronic pain• Black Lives Matter• DEI advocate • junk food lover• outdoor enthusiast• she/her.

Joined March 2020
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Barbara Benowitz@BenowitzBarbara
23 Mar 2024
Big update!! I suppose it’s time to change my status to PhD student! I will be attending MUSC this Fall to pursue my Neuroscience PhD! This is my proudest accomplishment thus far and I’m really excited for the journey! Charleston, here I come! #phdlife #gradschool #MUSC
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Honored to have won 1st place poster award and $500 during MUSC Poster Day! #gradstudentlife #MUSC #phdstudent
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New article just got published! Great work to everyone involved! It was a pleasure collaborating with you all :) dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnc.70142

Histamine Dynamics During Ingestive Behavior Measured by the Novel Biosensor HisLightG

Here, Volcko et al. describe a novel fluorescent sensor that allows changes in the molecule histamine to be recorded in the brain. They first show that the sensor is specific for histamine when used...

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I am proud to share my first, first author publication. This was accomplished during my first rotation with @meghanflanigan. She is a fantastic mentor and I am grateful. Enjoying my rotations thus far and can’t wait to eventually find my home lab. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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First year of grad school: I’m a full time student, doing rotations, and a part of: 1) SGA 2) GSA 3) MUSC Honor Council 4) President of MSAB 5) GSAC 6) USASP DEI Committee 7) STEM MUSE mentor Keeping busy :) Making a difference one organization at a time! @PhDVoice #PhDlife
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Got an A on my first grad school exam! Was nervous about the academic part of my research career, but it feels good to know I can make it :) MUSC is a supportive community and I know I made the right choice in choosing this school! Gotta celebrate the small victories #phdlife
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Honored to be the co-president of the Multicultural Student Advisory Board at MUSC! Our goal is to promote diversity and inclusion, provide opportunities for community outreach, and foster cultural awareness, especially in healthcare settings. #DEI #MUSCSGA
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Truly an honor to have been selected for this position :) We can make a difference and it starts NOW. #DEI #MakeADifference #usasp #USASPIDEA
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So excited to start my MUSC Neuroscience PhD journey! School starts in a week and I’m ready for the adventure! I’m so proud and reminding myself that I EARNED this opportunity and I can’t wait to see where my path leads me. #neurosciencephd #womeninstem
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When the school assigns you 320 pages of reading before school starts 🤓📚#neurophd #gradschool #muscneuro
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Yarimar Carrasquillo@YarCarLab
6 Jun 2024
Thanks to @NIH_NCCIH, @Catheri81811347, @NCCIH_David, @NIDAnews, @yavinshaham, and @IRPatNIH for the opportunity, resources, and support.
NIH NCCIH@NIH_NCCIH
4 Jun 2024
We’re happy to announce that Dr. Yarimar Carrasquillo (@YarCarLab) of our Division of Intramural Research has been granted tenure! Dr. Carrasquillo studies the brain mechanisms underlying the complex experience of pain. Join us in celebrating this momentous milestone!
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Feeling the stress of running 8 hours of behavior a day while also simultaneously running a completely different experiment in another room while also calling moving companies between the runs and also selling my furniture. Thank goodness multitasking is something I’m good at 😥
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Thank you Sharina for your hard work as always in helping organize the meeting! Was such a fun and educational time! Can’t wait for next year! @NIHendaddiction @PainResearchers
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Always exciting to wake up and find out you received a travel award! Looking forward to be attending the 2nd Annual NIH PURPOSE meeting in May! Hope to see many of you there!
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mbruchas@mbruchas
18 Jan 2023
Check out this new behavioral system for head-fixed mouse studies. Work done by Adam Gordon-Fennell et al., a PD in @gstuber lab in collaboration with the @MitchRoitman lab & our lab.@NIDAnews @OpenBehavior
Garret Stuber@gstuber
17 Jan 2023
New lab preprint on our behavioral system for assessing motivated behavior in head-fixed mice. Work done by Adam Gordon-Fennell et al., in collaboration with the @MitchRoitman and @mbruchas Labs. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Jen Rinker 👩‍🔬@DrJRink
22 Feb 2024
Proud PI moment...twitterless PhD student, Amy Ward (@kt_crtr you are responsible for showing her this tweet), just put her mark on the head-fixed alcohol self-ad world with her first preprint 🤗 @biorxivpreprint @biorxiv_neursci biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

A Model of Ethanol Self-Administration in Head-Fixed Mice

Significant advances in neurotechnology, such as the emergence of 2-photon imaging, have enabled unparalleled access to the complex neural circuits that coordinate behavior in rodents. Integration of...

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I got into grad school and it feels amazing!
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Nisa Ibrahim@khairunisa_ibk
29 Jan 2024
PAPER ALERT Thread! "Dorsal Hippocampus to Nucleus Accumbens Projections to Drive Reinforcement Via Activation Of Accumbal Dynorphin Neurons" Excited to see my work with @MassalyNiko in @jomoronc Lab published in @NatureComms! rdcu.be/dxcni
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Happy New Year! A few goals: 1. Get into grad school 2. Survive first year of grad school 3. Find a healthy work/life balance 4. Get more serious about my hobbies 5. Exercise on a daily basis 6. Present at SFN (still never been) 7. Get involved in DEI in grad school
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Always feels good to get that first grad school interview invite! Woohoo! Hopefully I’ll get more!
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