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• Donna and Sara present data at International Drug Abuse Research Society annual meeting in Nice, France

• Cassie and Sara present at Gordon Addiction meeting in Maine

• Donna presents at Canadian Association for Neuroscience annual meeting

• Jessica Valerino, Sophie Elvig, Mikah Green and Alex Wiltse rotate in Calu Lab

• Sam and Donna present talks at Winter Conference on Brain Research, Aspen, CO

• Dave and Sara submit preprints of their latest work

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• Congrats to Dr. Sam Bacharach and Dr. Utsav Gyawali who defended their theses

• Sam and Donna present talks and Sara a poster at the 2021 Pavlovian Society Meeting, MI

• Sara and Utsav publish their review on Divergent basolateral amygdala efferents differentially mediate incentive motivation, flexibility and decision-making in Behavioral Brain Research

• Sara receives NOA on her F32!  

• 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

• Sara gets single digit score on F32! Crossing fingers for a few months! 

• Cassie joins Calu Lab! ​

• Utsav et al publish study entitled, Role of BNST CRFR1 receptors in incubation of fentanyl seeking

• 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

• Lab reopened in mid-June with low density social distancing for independent lab work

• Sam  receives his F31 NRSA, entitled, "The role of Cannabinoid Receptor-1 in modulating addiction vulnerability"

• 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 ​

• Sara et al publish study entitled, Effects of limited and extended Pavlovian training on devaluation sensitivity of sign-and goal-tracking rats 

• David and Molly welcome baby Elias to the world

• Sara, Brad and Vanessa welcome baby Matthew to the world

• David leads a panel at Winter Conference on Brain Research on 5HT2A research

•  Welcome to rotating student, Molly Pruitt and Volunteer Hope Nyarady

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• Donna is awarded PECASE (see Maryland: Gogerdchi) 

• Donna presents at Amygdala GRC

• Donna presents at EBPS- European Behavioral Psychopharmacology Society Meeting

• Sam's paper on Stability of Sucralose Taste Preference published in PLoS One

• Lab members retreat to Annapolis to eat and enjoy beautiful Spring weather together 

• 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

• The team welcomes Sara Keefer to the lab. ​

• The team welcomes Dan Kochli to the lab. 

• Our paper is accepted at Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

• Goodbye to Helen Nasser, now Senior Lecturer for Institute for Social Neuroscience in Heidelberg, Australia

• The team welcomes Utsav Gyawali and David Martin to the lab. 

• Calu Lab awarded R01 from NIDA to study amygdala circuits underlying individual differences in motivation and flexibility

• Goodbye to Ellen Lesser and Danielle Lafferty who are now graduate students at University of Washington and Boston College

• Featured in UMSOM news

• Our collaborative review with Mel Sharpe and Geoffrey Schoenbaum  is published in Frontiers in Psychology

• Donna Calu awarded Outstanding Young Scientist Award from The Maryland Academy of Sciences and Maryland Science Center

• Calu Lab awarded McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award

• Calu Lab awarded NARSAD Young Investigator Award from Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

• The team welcomes Sam Bacharach to the lab. 

• Calu Lab celebrates website launch by walking the plank! 

• Helen Nasser selected for the inaugural Baltimore Brain Series lectures

• 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!

• CaluLab is successfully implementing projection-specific in vivo recording in freely moving rats.                

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