December 2025
Congratulations to Nicole Kooij on passing her qualifying exam!
October 2025
Nicole Kooij presented the lab’s work on spinal kappa opioid receptor inhibition of pain at the Inaugural Wisconsin Pain Research Day. Well done, Nicole!
October 2025
Happy 1st Labiversary to the Sheahan Lab!
September 2025
The lab was awarded an R00 to study the role of spinal neuropeptides in itch!
August 2025
Avleen Benipal joins the lab as an Undergraduate Researcher through the PURE Program
August 2025
Lab social with the Baranger Lab!
July 2025
Tayler was a guest on WTMJ’s Afternoon News Health Briefing to talk about the Science of Itch! Listen to her radio interview here: audio, audio + video.
July 2025
Laney Waydick joins the Sheahan Lab as a Research Technologist I
May 2025
Kicking off summer with a lab social!
April 2025
Tayler was featured in The Transmitter’s “Liftoff: New lab alerts”. Check out her mini Q&A here
April 2025
The lab was awarded an MCW Neuroscience Research Center Brain Clearing and Imaging Grant to visualize neurons in the nervous system that encode itch!
March 2025
Introducing the first graduate student of the Sheahan Lab, Nicole Kooij!
February 2025
Nicole Kooij, IDP graduate student, joins us for a research rotation
January 2025
Tyler Trask, IDP graduate student, joins us for a research rotation
December 2024
The lab’s first experiment is underway! Brandon genotypes our newly arrived transgenic mice
November 2024
Brandon Wills joins the Sheahan Lab as a Research Technologist II
October 2024
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