Category: News & Events

April 7, 2026 Proud of our Schmidt Lab UGs Anouska Seal, David Gonzalez and Jonah Ferber who presented their current research at the UF Undergraduate Research Symposium 2026. Their dedication, curiosity, and contributions to our research are truly appreciated. It’s exciting to see them grow as scientists, and we look forward to their future achievements!

March 13, 2026 Congratulations to Allison Campbell-Galbraith who received Outstanding Graduate Poster and Best Graphical Abstract at the University of Florida’s 21st Annual Neuromuscular Plasticity T32 Symposium. She presented her work on modulating neuroinflammatory responses after spinal cord injury and learned from colleagues working in neuromuscular regeneration and rehabilitation. Thank you to the T32 training […]

March 10, 2026 Our two UGs, Anouska Seal and Jonah G. Ferber, represented the Schmidt Lab well at the Florida Regional Biomaterials Day. Jonah gave a fantastic rapid-fire talk and Anouska received the Best UG Poster Presentation Award. Great job! Kudos to them and their mentors!

February 6, 2026 The Schmidt lab came together to celebrate their accomplishments for the past year and to welcome 2026. They also had fun decorating Valentine’s Day cookies! Group Photo – Back, standing (l to r): Collin Klaus (UG, mentored by Amanda), Gopal Agarwal (postdoc), Fernando Alves (Amanda’s husband), Amanda Juraski (postdoc), Anouska Seal (UG, […]

Welcome to the Fall semester! We had a great time celebrating with lots of food in traditional pot luck fashion, engaging conversation, billiards and board games! Photo: Front Row, L to R: Anouska Seal, Kennedy Moes, Allison Campbell, Amanda Juraski, Angiolina Dall’Acqua Back Row, L to R: Leina Owens, Abiah Sentic, Gopal Agarwal, Blanca Ostmark, […]

Wonderful job by my trainees today! We had our Spring UG research presentations. Extra congratulations to our graduating students – Samantha Shumard and Izabella Zmirska for receiving their BS degrees in BME, and Dr. Xander Lim (co-advised with Dr. Kevin Otto, now Head of BME at Purdue) for receiving his PhD in BME! We celebrated […]

Proud of our Schmidt Lab trainees — Allison Campbell, PhD student, and Ethan McMillan, MS student — discussing their research on developing injectable therapies for spinal cord injury (SCI) at UF Biomaterials Day 2025.

Congratulations to our UF BME PhD student, Allison Campbell, who was selected for the UF T32 Neuromuscular Plasticity Training Program (NMPT), overseen by Drs. Fuller, Vandenborne, and Judge. Allison is researching injectable hydrogel/drug therapies for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI).

So proud of our postdoc, Dr. Gopal Agarwal, who gave a fantastic kick-off talk at the North Central Florida (NCF) Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN). He showcased his impactful work on developing injectable therapeutics for spinal cord injury (SCI) treatment.

Allison was selected to participate in an industry internship with Dow Chemical in Michigan, as part of the “2023-2024 Campus Internship – Digital Innovation – Cross-functional (Ph.D)”. She will be working in the Toxicology and Environmental Research and Consulting department. Kudos to Allison!