Dahir Lab

Briana Scarlat, B.S.

Research Technician II

Briana received her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Dallas. Throughout her undergraduate studies, she was especially drawn to the research components of her coursework and enjoyed gaining hands-on laboratory experience, particularly through cultivating and studying microbes. She joined the Dahir Lab to gain additional hands-on research experience, develop her technical skills, and contribute to the lab's ongoing work investigating the neurobiology of ingestive behaviors.

In another life, she would spend her days solving mysteries as a forensic scientist, following clues wherever they lead.

Outside the lab, Briana enjoys spending time with friends and playing with her friend's cat, Sock.

Naima Dahir, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Naima received her B.S. from The Ohio State University and completed the majority of her doctoral training at Utah State University in the lab of Timothy Gilbertson. She then transferred with the Gilbertson Lab to the University of Central Florida, where she earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences. Her dissertation research focused on estrogen signaling and TRP channel function in taste cells.

She then returned to the Midwest and joined Roger Cone's lab at the University of Michigan for her postdoctoral fellowship, where her research focused on central melanocortin signaling, which regulates body weight and feeding behavior.

Naima started her independent research group in the Center of Hypothalamic Research at UT Southwestern, where the lab focuses on delineating the sensory and motor processes that regulate ingestive behaviors.

In another life, she would be a bookkeeper at a café of endless glass, in a town where rain falls year-round and the sky is forever gray and beautiful.

In her free time, Naima enjoys spending time with her family.

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