November 2022
Devin Effinger was part of a panel organized by NIDA Titled “Drug Use, Addiction, and Recovery.
Mia Foglesong was selected to give a poster presentation at the state of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium they will be presenting on December 3rd in Willmington.
October 2022
Our lab manager Maria Echeveste Sanchez published her first first author paper titled “The effects of electronic nicotine vapor on voluntary alcohol consumption in female and male C57BL/6J mice”
Sema Quadir presented her poster at the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS)/Gordon Research Conference (GRC): Alcohol & The Nervous System meeting in Oxnard, CA and received the Best Postdoc Poster Award at GRS
September 2022
Gavin Schmitz gave an oral presentation at the 2022 Pharmacology Retreat and won best oral presentation.
July 2022
Melissa Herman recieved tenure!
June 2022
Sema Quadir and Sarah Magee presented their research at the Research Society of Alcoholism’s 2022 meeting in Orlando, FL. They also recieved RSA Junior Investigator and Student Merit travel awards respectively
Sema Quadir’s F32 proposal titled “Physiological Consequences of Alcohol Exposure on CRF 1 Neurons in the Nucleus Tractus Solitarius” was funded on the first try!
May 2022
Sema recieved NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program and will be travelling to Baltimore in November to accept the award.
April 2022
Congratulations to our aswesome undergrad Gillian Arleth on successfully defending her honors thesis! She will also be presenting a poster on her senior research project on Wednesday May 4th
July 2021
Our amazing undergrad Jasmine Jahad presented her poster “Electronic Nicotine Vapor Exposure and Central Amygdala Activity in Mice” as part of the Carolina Summer Fellows program!
September 2021
Undergraduate Neil Rogers led the Herman Lab’s first journal club where he presented Ben Hamida et al 2015, Addiction Biology — a paper from Brigitte Kieffer’s lab examining the mu opioid receptor and alcohol reward !
October 2021
Congratulations to Gillian Arleth for getting her senior honors thesis research award!