December 2025
The lab celebrates the holidays together with a white elephant featuring: a massage pillow, puzzles, clay cells, and more!
December 2025
Maura, Anna, and Alejandro present their work at the Neuroboston Fall Symposium at Tufts University. Maura was selected to present a lightning talk and Anna and Alejandro present a shared poster.
November 2025
Anna, Maura, Will, and Elise attend the Society for Neuroscience Conference in San Diego, CA. Anna, Maura, and Elise presented posters of their recent work.
July 2025
Odette Amoakohene presents her research at the 21st Annual McNair Scholars Program Research Symposium. Congratulations Odette!
July 2025
The lab welcomes two new members Matt Morales (research assistant) and Will Taylor (postdoctoral fellow). Welcome Matt and Will!
June 2025
Caroline attends PNIRS 2025 in Bordeaux France, complete with excellent science, great quotes, a committee lunch, and a French chateau
May 2025
Niki Li wins the McCarthy Prize for the best senior thesis in natural sciences here at BC!! Congrats Niki!!
May 2025
Smith Lab bowling and pizza end of year celebration – Elise, Joy, Jason, Matt, Maddie, and Niki are all off on their next adventures! We will miss them!
May 2025
Our 5 graduating seniors Niki, Matt, Maddie, Joy, and Jason present their senior thesis work at the Psychology and Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Conference. We are so proud of all their hard work!
February 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!
January 2025
The lab welcomes new lab members Yudam Chang, Odette Amoakohene, Sarvin Bhagwagar, and Alejandro Ferreto. We also bid a bittersweet farewell to Anthony who is moving on to a new job at AstraZeneca – congrats Anthony!
November 2024
Dr. Staci Bilbo, Caroline's postdoc advisor, visits BC!
July 2024
McNair Scholars Joy and Niki present their summer research at the 20th Annual McNair Scholars Program Research Symposium and they both do an amazing job!! Congratulations Joy and Niki!
July 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.
July 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!
June 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.
June 2024
Caroline, Maura, and Elise attend the Neurobiology of Stress Meeting in Boston, MA. Maura and Elise both present posters on their recent work!
December 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.
November 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.
September 2023
Three new undergraduate students join the lab! Welcome to Matt Kern, Niki Li, and Maddie Winters!
August 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 :)
July 2023
Elise Martin joins the Smith Lab as a research assistant! Welcome Elise!
May 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.
June 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!
January, 2023
The Smith Lab is open! We are currently recruiting graduate students, and a postdoctoral fellows. Please see the join page for details.