Adolescence Across the Animal Kingdom
Our Center for the Developing Adolescent released a new podcast on animal adolescence here. We follow up with discussion here on the exciting insights into adolescence that we can learn from animals.
Delevich Lab
Former postdoc, Kristen Delevich has opened her new lab at WSU! Congratulations Kristen!
Dr. Wan Chen Lin
Wan Chen Lin received her Ph.D. in behavioral and systems neuroscience. Congratulations Dr. Lin!
Kristen Delevich Awarded Tourette Association of America Funding
The Tourette Association of America has awarded its Young Investigator Award to Kristen Delevich for her research project, Studying the Influence of Hormones on the Brain. This work seeks to understand the influence of puberty on brain circuits involved in behavioral control, in an effort to elucidate why Tourette symptoms typically change during adolescence. Congratulations, Dr. Delevich!
New nIRCats Paper with the Landry Lab
We just published our first collaborative paper with the Landry lab in Science Advances. Beyene et al. shows that new nIRCats enable detection of dopamine release with high spatial resolution and are compatible with dopamine receptor pharmacology. There is brief coverage in Nature and a link to the paper is here.
Piekarski & Boivin in Cell Press Selections
David Piekarski and Joe Boivin’s work was selected to become part of Cell Press Selections on Sex and the Brain.
Wren Thomas receives her PhD from the Helen Wills Neuroscience Program
Congratulations Wren!
Center for the Developing Adolescent
We have been working to develop a new Center for the Developing Adolescent to translate developmental science to parents and policy makers. See the new Center website at www.developingadolescent.org
Hoshal & Okada Awards
Undergraduate awards: Ben Hoshal won an MCB poster award and Nana Okada won a Psychology poster award. Congratulations to Ben and Nana!
Congrats Wan Chen
Wan Chen Lin passed her qualifying exam! Congratulations Wan Chen!