Bolton Lab

Lab News
August 2024

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium! And congratulations to Mikayla Kendall for winning  the Best Poster Presentation for the Molecular Basis of Disease Program award!

Mikayla Kendall presenting her poster titled "Early-life adversity alters microglia-mediated synaptic refinement of corticotropin-releasing hormone-expressing neurons"

Urjoshi Kar presenting her poster titled "The role of the microglial phagocytic receptor, MerTK, in early life adversity-induced changes in behavior and synaptic development"

Nneka Otuonye presenting her poster titled "Knockdown of GLG1 and GLI2 reduces interactions within bone marrow and tumor microenvironments in a bone metastatic breast cancer model" 
July 2024



The Bolton lab thanks Logan Oulette for his contributions to the lab! We wish him the best as he moves on to a neuroscience PhD program at American University.
June 2024

PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society 2024 Annual Meeting

Congratulations to all lab members who won awards and presented their research at PNIRS!

Dr. Jessica Bolton: 2025 PNIRS Robert Ader New Investigator Award

Fadya Mroue Ruiz: PNIRS Michael Irwin Equity & Diversity Travel Award

Madison Garvin: PNIRS Trainee Scholar (Early Career) Travel Award
May 2024

Congratulations to Bhoomi Desai for defending her thesis and graduating with her MS in Neuroscience! 
April 2024

Congratulations Hannah!

Hannah Lichtenstein was awarded an NSF GRFP grant for "The influence of early-life adversity on excitatory synapse development in the central nucleus of the amygdala: a role for microglia"
January 2024

The Bolton lab wants to thank Dr. Michelle Sequeira for her incredible contribution to the lab! Dr. Sequira has started a new journey at Emory University and we wish her great success at her new job!
December 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Sequeira who has had a very exciting year winning several awards!

  • ACNP Travel Award (December)

  • CASA Award for Outstanding Mentoring of Undergraduates in STEM (November)

  • PNIRS Trainee Award (June)
November 2023

Congratulations to Nneka Otuonye for winning Best Poster Presentation Award at ABRCMS!

Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Bolton for being awarded the Ignite Early Career Research Impact Award in the area of Natural and Life Sciences! 
 August 2023

Congratulations to Jonila Sheshu for winning 1st place at the poster presentation in Summer Scholarship Research Symposium! 
 June 2023

Congratulations Dr. Bolton & Michelle!

Michelle Sequeira and Jessica Bolton’s Perspective article, "Stressed microglia: Neuroendocrine-neuroimmune interactions in the stress response " was accepted for publication in Endocrinology.

May 2022

Congratulations Bhoomi & Sara!

Bhoomi Desai and Sara Correa presented the first posters for the Bolton Lab at the 2022 Brains & Behavior Annual Retreat.
March 2022

Congratulations Dr. Bolton & Zuri!

Zuri Ngozi and Jessica Bolton’s Perspective article, "Microglia don't treat all neurons the same: The importance of neuronal subtype in microglia-neuron interactions in the developing hypothalamus" was accepted for publication in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience.

October 2021

Congratulations Zuri!

Zuri Ngozi was awarded the Molecular Basis of Disease (MBD) Fellowship for her project in collaboration with the Forger lab studying the developmental trajectory of microglial process dynamics in the PVN.
Fall 2021

Welcome New Undergraduates! 

This fall our lab was joined by four new undergraduates: Brittany Clarke, Kendall Missel, Urjoshi Karr, and Jonila Shehu.

SEED Grant

The Bolton lab was awarded the CNCD SEED grant to fund our project studying the role of the microglial phagocytic receptor Mer in synaptic pruning of stress-sensitive neurons