Auerbach Lab News Feed
April 2025
- Veronica Singh, Justin Ryan, Kyle Wagner, Jon Mohnkern, Laura Williams, and David Auerbach author a paper in the Journal of Translational Medicine: Knock-in Kcnh2 Rabbit Moderl of Long QT Syndrome Type-2, Epilepsy and Sudden Death.
March 2025
- Veronica Singh gives an oral presentation and Laura Wengert presents a poster at Student Research Day, 2025.
January 2025
December 2024
- Jon Mohnkren is awarded the 2024-2025 SUNY NCOM Research Fellowship to conduct research within the Auerbach Lab.
- Pranitha Anoor Gunasekaran graduates with her Bachleor's degree from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and wins the SUNY ESF Robin Hood Oak Award for Academic Excellence.
- David Auerbach and Justin Ryan presented a poster at AES 2024 on cardiac repolarization measures in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies
September 2024
- David Auerbach wins the President's Award for Excellence in Clinical or Translational Research by a Young Investigator at Upstate Medical University's Fall Faculty Convocation.
- Laura Williams, Veronica Singh and Pranitha Anoor present posters at the Upstate's 24th Annual Biomedical Sciences Retreat
August 2024
- Veronica Singh and David Auerbach author a paper in Epilepsia: Neurocardiac pathologies associated with potassium channelopathies
May 2024
- Laura Williams successfully defends her Masters Thesis. Way to go, Laura!!! Best of luck in your return to medical school :)
- Pranitha Anoor is accepted to the MS program at SUNY Upstate. She will join the lab full-time during her gap year and complete a Masters degree.
March 2024
- Laura Williams, Veronica Singh and Pranitha Anoor present their posters at the Charles Ross Memorial Student Research Day. Laura's poster won 2nd place (out of 175 posters!)
December 2023
- Veronica Singh and Kyle Wagner present at PAME 2023 and AES 2023: Sponteneous Epilepiform Discharges in a Genetic Rabbit Model of Kcnh-2-Mediated Seizures, Long QT Syndrome, and Sudden Death, and Altered KcnH/Ky Expression in the Brain and Heart, and Prolongation of Cardiac Repolarization in a Rabbit Model of Long QT Syndrome with Seizures
- David Auerbach presents at PAME 2023 and AES 2023: Cardiac Conduction, Repolarization, and Autonomic Function in Dravet and Lennoz-Gastaut Syndromes
October 2023
- David Auerbach has been awarded over $1 million from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke over the next three years: Groundbreaking Research Aims to Prevent SUDEP: Investigating the Link Between Epilepsy and Heart Rhythm Disorders
August 2023
- Justin Ryan, Kyle Wagner, and David Auerbach author a paper in Seizure: Heart rate and autonomic biomarkers distinguish convulsive epileptic vs. functional or dissociative seizures
- NIH R61/R33 IGINTE grant: Development of a Genetic Rabbit Model of Kcnh2-Mediated Epilepsy, SUDEP, & Long QT Syndrome Type-2, (1 R61 NS133273-01: PI: David S. Auerbach, PhD; Co-I: Justin M. Ryan, PhD)
- Veronica Singh passed the qualifying exam and is now a PhD candidate (Way to go, Vinni!)
May 2023
April 2023
- Multi-institute UNYTE Grant for translational science from the University of Rochester Medical Center, Clinical and Translational Science Institute (URMC CTSI): Wearable Multi-System Recordings for Improved Disease Diagnostics (Co-PI: David Auerbach & Dr. Inna Hughes, URMC; Co-I Justin Ryan)
March 2023
- Veronica presents posters of her work at Accepted Students Day and Charles Ross Memorial Research Day
February 2023
December 2022
- David Auerbach is awarded a Clinical Research Grant by the Dravet Syndrome Foundation: Genetic Substrates and Physiological Triggers for Autonomic and Cardiac Abnormalities in Dravet Syndrome
- David Auerbach and Justin Ryan speak at PAME 2022: More than Just Heart Rate: Real-time EKG analysis to detect warning signs of impending fatal cardiac dysfunction in people with epilepsy
- Kyle Wagner speaks at AES 2022: Rabbit Model of Long QT Syndrome Type 2 Exhibits Neuro-Cardiac Electrical Abnormalities and SUDEP
- Veronica Singh and Kyle Wagner present at PAME 2022 and AES 2022: Rabbit Model of Long QT Syndrome Type 2 Exhibits Neuro-Cardiac Electrical Abnormalities and SUDEP
- Lou Adebiyi presents at PAME 2022 and AES 2022: Phenytoin Induced Off Target Potassium Channel Blockage Provides a Substrate for Cardiac Electrical Abnormalities in Long QT Syndrome Type 2
- Justin Ryan presents at AES 2022: ECG-Based Measures of Autonomic Function Distinguish Epileptic vs Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures
September 2022
- Veronica Singh wins first prize best poster at the SUNY Upstate Biomedical Sciences Retreat: Development and Characterization of a Rabbit Model of Long QT Syndrome Type-2
August 2022
- Lou Adebiyi, Justin Ryan, and Kyle Wagner have poster presentation abstracts accepted for the 2022 American Epilepsy Society meeting in December.
- Lou Adebiyi's abstract is also accepted for the young investigator award, and a second session: Broadening Representation and Inclusion by Growing Diversity and Equity (BRIDGE)
- Kyle Wagner's abstract was also accepted for a platform talk!
- Meghdad Sabouri Rad successfully defends his PhD in Electronic Engineering, Designing and fabricating multichannel neural signal recording system, from Tarbiat Moallem Univeristy of Iran.
June 2022
- Veronica Singh joins the lab as a PhD student
- Roshanak Ebrahimi joins the lab as a PhD student
- Jackson Jost graduates from Syracuse University (Mathematics and Neuroscience)
January 2022
- CURE Epilepsy Foundation: The Cameron Boyce Foundation and CURE Epilepsy Partner to Fund New SUDEP Research (1/2022)
- ABC News (Washington, DC): Victor and Libby Boyce raise epilepsy awareness in honor of late son Cameron (1/2022)
December 2021
- Anjlee Panjwani (MD/MPH Student) is awarded the 2022 Rogers Research Scholarship
November 2021
September 2021
- Halleluyah Adebiyi (PREP-Up Student) wins Top Poster Award at 2021 Biomedical Science Retreat
- Justin Ryan, PhD joins the lab as a Data Analyst to lead the clinical research projects
- 2-Year grant from CURE Epilepsy "Cardiac & Autonomic Pathological Markers for Arrhythmias & Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy Patients"
March 2021
- 4th year Medical Students Cameron Bosinski (Res. Track Anesthesiology), Joseph Toth (Int. Med), and Justin Durland (Int. Med) matched for Residency Programs
December 2020
- Cameron Bosinski (4th year Med Student) presents at the American Epilepsy Society and PAME Meetings “Increased Propensity for Pharmacologically Induced Seizures and Sudden Death in Long QT Syndrome Rabbits”
- David Auerbach presents American Epilepsy Society Meeting “Temporal Changes in Autonomic Function Differ Surrounding Epileptic vs. Psychogenic Seizures.”
October 2020
- David Auerbach elected as a Fellow of the American Epilepsy Society
September 2019
- Natalia DeMaria joins the lab as a Data Analyst
August 2019
- Kyle Wagner joins the lab as our fearless Lab Manager (aka, the lab’s Swiss Army Knife)
May 2019
- 2-year grant from Central NY Foundation “Multi-System Monitoring to Identify Pathological Markers and Mechanisms for Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy”
April 2019
- Auerbach Lab opens at SUNY Upstate Medical University
- See some pictures of the early days of the lab (i.e., pre-Kyle) here