Lab News

New publication from the lab on how adolescent social isolation impacts glutamate signaling in the adult brain now published in Addiction Biology.

Interested in learning about a sex differences in substance use and the role of gonadal hormones? Check out grad student Mel Knouse’s review in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

New work from the lab describing a sex specific role for PICK1 in the prefrontal cortex in cocaine seeking now published in Addiction Biology

Dr. Briand is a Co-Investigator on a recently funded R01 with PI Dr. Bangasser and Co-I Dr. Wimmer investigating “Sex differences in stress inoculation of addiction-like phenotypes”.

Congraulations to graduate student Megan Wickens for the successful defense of her dissertation! We wish her the best of luck at UM. Go Blue!

Interested in learning about a potential role for microglia in stress and drug addiction? Check out grad student Anna McGrath’s review in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

New work from Dr. Andre Deutchmann and the lab on the ability of ZIP to rescue cocaine-induced plasticity just published in Journal of Neuroscience.

Check out our grad student Megan’s paper on the role of GRIP in the prefrontal cortex in Neuropharmacology.

Congratulations to undergraduate Lizzie Birmingham for receiving a Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Award (LAURA) to work in the lab this fall.

Dr. Lisa Briand has been awarded an R01 to examine the mechanisms underlying zeta-inhibitory peptide’s erasure of drug seeking by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Grad student Anna McGrath’s new paper on the role of PKMzeta in cocaine seeking is out now in Neuropsychopharmacology.