Research in the Zarin Lab has been supported by federal, university, college, and departmental funding sources. We are grateful for the support that enables our lab to investigate the development, function, plasticity, and molecular regulation of sensorimotor circuits.

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Current Grant Support: 

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National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke — R01
Cross-neuronal Structural Plasticity in Drosophila Motor Circuits
PI: Aref Zarin
2026–2031

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Texas A&M Division of Research — Targeted Proposal Teams Proposal Planning Grant
Investigating the Role of Ionotropic Neurotransmitter Receptors in Glia (Astrocytes)
PI: Aref Zarin
2025–2026

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Previous Grant Support:

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Texas A&M College of Arts and Sciences — Strategic Transformative Research Program
Investigating the Role of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Motor Neurons, Astrocytes, and Insecticide Toxicity/Resistance in Drosophila melanogaster Larvae
PI: Aref Zarin
2025–2026

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Texas A&M Division of Research — Targeted Proposal Teams: Grants on the Edge
Multifunctional Sensorimotor Circuits Generating Bilateral Synchronous and Asynchronous Locomotor Behaviors
PI: Aref Zarin
2025–2026

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Texas A&M College of Arts and Sciences — Strategic Transformative Research Program
Neural Circuits Underlying Forward and Backward Locomotion in Drosophila Larvae
PI: Aref Zarin
2024–2025

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Texas A&M University — T3 Program
Transvection as a General Means to Synchronize Gene Expression
Co-PI: Aref Zarin
2021–2022

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We are deeply grateful to the National Institutes of Health, Texas A&M University, the Texas A&M Division of Research, the Texas A&M College of Arts and Sciences, the Texas A&M Institute of Neuroscience, and the Department of Biology for supporting our research program, trainees, and long-term goal of understanding how nervous systems generate, maintain, and repair behaviorally relevant circuits.