Congratulations to Megan, Dylan, Lucy, and Daniel for the successful honors thesis defenses!
Emily Prevost and Annie Ly receive graduate awards!
Congratulations to both Emily Prevost and Annie Ly who were awarded the Beverly Sears graduate awards!
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Annie Ly receives multiple awards!
Congratulations to Annie Ly who was selected for multiple recent awards:
The Rising Stars in Neuroscience Symposium at The University of Utah
A Travel Award to the Stress Neurobiology Workshop
And a Travel Award to the Janelia Farms Mechanistic Basis of Foraging conference!
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Emily Prevost presents research at Winter Brain and advances to PhD candidate!
Emily Prevost presented her latest research as part of a panel on the cell-types and circuits that control opioid addiction
Root lab at SfN
Please come chat with us on some of our newest research:
Sunday afternoon KK7 Dr. Dillon McGovern will present his research on VTA circuits and cell-types mediating the consequences of uncontrollable stress
Tuesday morning SS21 Emily Prevost will present her research on VTA mu opioid receptor cell-types and fentanyl reward/aversion
Congratulations to Rachel and Ree on defending their honors theses
Congratulations to Rachel Karnosky and Annamarie (Ree) Miller for successfully defending their undergraduate honors theses!
Hiring a professional research assistant
We seek a professional research assistant to aid in all experiments. If interested, please apply through the CU Jobs portal
Annie Ly awarded the Dosier/Muenzinger Predoctoral Research Fellowship Award!
Congratulations to Annie Ly, who was chosen for the 2023-24 recipient of the Dosier/Muenzinger Predoctoral Research Fellowship Award from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder!
Root lab receives grant from the Institute of Cannabis Research
Thanks to the Colorado Institute of Cannabis Research, we’re excited to investigate how specific VTA cell-types are involved in cannabis abuse. See more here