Parekh Lab for Motivational, Affective, and Cognitive Systems @ UT Dallas BBS - Department of Neuroscience

Lab News

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December 2025 - Annual holiday party and white elephant gift exchange with members from Eagle, Gu and Lakshminarasimhan labs.


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November 2025 - Ausin Csiszar and Alexa Dinklang present posters at the ABRCMS annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas


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October 2025 - Dr. Parekh is awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator grant from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) to support lab projects. Read more here.


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August 2025 - MACS lab undergraduates present posters at the SPUR symposium - Aryan Bangad wins a Provost’s Office Award


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June 2025 - Dr. Parekh attends and Chairs a panel at the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS) annual meeting in Tromso, Norway


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May 2025 - Pranavi Maddipatla graduates with her Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience and stays on as an ACN Masters student with the lab


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April 2025 - Dr. Parekh wins a Travel Fellowship Award to attend and present at the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) annual meeting in Toronto, Canada

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March 2025 - The lab receives funding through an R00 award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Read more here.


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February 2025 - Review article published in the journal, Neurbiology of Stress


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December 2024 - Holiday white elephant gift exchange


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August 2024 - The Parekh lab officially opens on the third floor of BSB!