News
30 July 2024: The Lab bids farewell to Logan Fox, and wishes him luck in his DrPH program!
15 July 2024: The Lab welcomes technician Farrah Alkhaleel to the lab!
8 July 2024: Congratulations to Allie for passing her comprehensive exam! Another PhD candidate in the lab!
18 June 2024: Congratulations to Annalisa for passing her comprehensive exam! She's now officially a PhD candidate!
3 June 2024: The Lab welcomes NIDA Summer Internship student Amaya Williams!
15 May 2024: Congratulations to Sami for passing her qualifying exam!
25 April 2024: Our paper is now online in Addiction Biology: Transcriptional signatures of fentanyl use in the mouse VTA.
1 March 2024: Congratulations to Annalisa on her poster award at the 2024 Graduate Student Research Forum!
15 January 2024: The Lab welcomes Anatomy Graduate program rotation student Nicole Derosia!
2 January 2024: The Lab welcomes Neuroscience Graduate program student Samiksha Pandey!
18 December 2023: New pre-print alert: Transcriptional signatures of fentanyl use in the mouse ventral tegmental area
9 October 2023: The Lab welcomes technician Hajra Sohail and Biomedical Sciences Graduate program rotation student Natale Hall!
17 August 2023: Notice of Award! We're excited to spend the next two years working on a project entitled "Molecular mechanisms of stress-sensitized opioid use and relapse", funded by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation!
30 June 2023: Notice of Award! We're excited to spend the next five years working on a NIDA DP-1 entitled "Identifying multi-omic signatures of opioid use and relapse"
5 June 2023: The Lab welcomes NIDA Summer Internship student Jennifer Jennings!
1 June 2023: Congratulations to Allie and Annalisa on passing their qualifying exams!
6 March 2023: The Lab welcomes Neuroscience Graduate program student Annalisa Montemarano!
3 January 2023: The Lab welcomes Anatomy Graduate program Student Allie Ostman!
16 December 2022: Congratulations to Nicole on publishing a first-author review article! Potential Utility of Cannabidiol in Stress-Related Disorders.
7 December 2022: Check out Meg's interview on the Stories of Women in Neuroscience Podcast.
7 November 2022: The Lab welcomes technician Nicole Lookfong!
1 October 2022: Happy first Birthday to the lab!
30 August 2022: Our paper is now online in Biological Psychiatry: Adaptations in nucleus accumbens neuron subtypes mediate negative affective behaviors in fentanyl abstinence
15 May 2022: New pre-print alert: Negative emotional behavior during fentanyl abstinence is mediated by adaptations in nucleus accumbens neuron subtypes.
24 January 2022: The Lab welcomes Lebanon Valley College undergraduate Taylor Seifert!
20 January 2022: Our lab's first peer-reviewed manuscript was accepted. Check it out here
29 November 2021: The Lab welcomes another Fox. Welcome to our first technician Logan Fox!
23 November 2021: Our lab's first pre-print entitled "Chronic Physical and Vicarious Psychosocial Stress Alter Fentanyl Consumption and Nucleus Accumbens Rho GTPases in Male and Female C57BL/6 Mice" is now posted to biorXiv. Check it out here
27 October 2021: We're hiring! Please check out the links here