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Donna and Sara present data at International Drug Abuse Research Society annual meeting in Nice, France
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Cassie and Sara present at Gordon Addiction meeting in Maine
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Donna presents at Canadian Association for Neuroscience annual meeting
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Sam and Donna present talks at Winter Conference on Brain Research, Aspen, CO
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Sam and Donna present talks and Sara a poster at the 2021 Pavlovian Society Meeting, MI
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Sara and Utsav publish their review on Divergent basolateral amygdala efferents differentially mediate incentive motivation, flexibility and decision-making in Behavioral Brain Research
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Sara receives NOA on her F32!
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Cassie advances to candidacy!
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Dan et al, publish study in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, entitled, Basolateral Amygdala to Nucleus Accumbens Communication Differentially Mediates Devaluation Sensitivity of Sign- and Goal-Tracking Rats
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Sara gets single digit score on F32! Crossing fingers for a few months!
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Cassie joins Calu Lab!
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Utsav et al publish study entitled, Role of BNST CRFR1 receptors in incubation of fentanyl seeking
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Dan et al, deposit study on BioRx, entitled, Basolateral amygdala to nucleus accumbens projections differentially mediate flexibility of sign- and goal-tracking rats, currently under peer review
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Lab reopened in mid-June with low density social distancing for independent lab work
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Sam receives his F31 NRSA, entitled, "The role of Cannabinoid Receptor-1 in modulating addiction vulnerability"
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Calu Lab research operation closes temporarily due to Covid-19, but we keep in touch daily, and have weekly lab meetings to update one another on new opportunities and challenges of working from home
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David and Molly welcome baby Elias to the world
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Sara, Brad and Vanessa welcome baby Matthew to the world
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David leads a panel at Winter Conference on Brain Research on 5HT2A research
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Donna is awarded PECASE (see Maryland: Gogerdchi)
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Donna presents at EBPS- European Behavioral Psychopharmacology Society Meeting
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Lab members retreat to Annapolis to eat and enjoy beautiful Spring weather together
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Sam and Helen's paper on the role of CB1 signaling in sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcement published in Psychopharmacology! Collaborating with Joe Cheer's lab: https://t.co/XyRkoFHx7t
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The main lab moves down the hall to spread our wings a bit
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The team welcomes Sara Keefer to the lab.
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The team welcomes Dan Kochli to the lab.
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Our paper is accepted at Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
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Goodbye to Helen Nasser, now Senior Lecturer for Institute for Social Neuroscience in Heidelberg, Australia
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Calu Lab awarded R01 from NIDA to study amygdala circuits underlying individual differences in motivation and flexibility
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Goodbye to Ellen Lesser and Danielle Lafferty who are now graduate students at University of Washington and Boston College
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The team welcomes Sam Bacharach to the lab.
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Calu Lab celebrates website launch by walking the plank!
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Helen Nasser selected for the inaugural Baltimore Brain Series lectures
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Helen Nasser was voted most cheerful postdoc by Program in Neursocience at the annual PIN retreat!
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Calu Lab team effort culminates in submission of an R01 application. We celebrate with some delicious MD blue crabs!
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CaluLab is successfully implementing projection-specific in vivo recording in freely moving rats.
Conference Schedule
Past:
CAN 2022
IDARS 2022
WCBR 2022
Donna presented Calu Lab work on amygdala-striatal and amygdala-cortical projections (Sara) in sign- and goal-tracking flexibility differences and Sam presented his work on VTA endocannabinoid modulation of NAc DA and sign-tracking
McKnight Neuroscience Conference, 2021
Donna presented the work from our 2017 McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award
Pavlovian Society 2021
Donna and Sara presented Calu Lab work on amygdala-striatal and amygdala-cortical projections (Sara) in sign- and goal-tracking flexibility differences and Sam presented his work on VTA endocannabinoid modulation of NAc DA and sign-tracking
WCBR 2020, Big Sky, MT
David lead a panel at Winter Conference on Brain Research on advancements in psychedelic research
Gordon Conference Amygdala in Health and Disease, Easton MA, 2019
Donna, Sara, Dan and Utsav will headed north to present their latest on Amygdala's involvement in individual differences in incentive and flexible behaviors, as well as its role in opiate incubation
Gordon Conference on Cannabinoid Function in the CNS, Catelldefels Spain, 2019
Sam went trans-continental to present his latest work on VTA endocannabinoid signaling in mediating incentive and flexible behaviors in sign and goal-tracking rats
European Behavioral Pscyhopharmacology Society, Braga-Porto, Portugal
Donna presented Sam's latest on work on VTA endocannabinoid signaling in mediating incentive and flexible behaviors in sign and goal-tracking rats in a panel on Endocannabinoids organized by Stephen Mahler
Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, 2019
Sara and Dan headed northwest a bit to present their latest on Amygdala's involvement in individual differences in incentive and flexible behaviors
WCBR 2019, Aspen CO
Sam presented in a panel and David presented their latest research, slopeside
IBNS 2018
Donna chaired a panel on Associative mechanisms of adaptive and maladaptive behaviors featuring the work of Mihaela Iordanova, Jacqueline Barker, Hector Bravo and Calu Lab
WCBR 2018
Donna presented BLA-IC disconnection study in a panel on individual differences
SfN 2017
Sam Bacharach and Helen Nasser presented posters of their latest work
Pavlovian 2017
Donna and Sam Bacharach presented posters of their latest work in Calu Lab
