19 February 2025: New Pre-print Alert: A Drd1-cre mouse line with nucleus accumbens gene dysregulation exhibits blunted fentanyl seeking.

16January 2025: The Lab welcomes Lebanon Valley College Undergrad Aubri Noll to the lab! 

6 January 2025: The Lab welcomes Postdoc Laura Murdaugh to the lab!

30 July 2024: The Lab bids farewell to Logan Fox, and wishes him luck in his DrPH program!

15 July 2024: The Lab welcomes technician Farrah Alkhaleel to the lab!

8 July 2024: Congratulations to Allie for passing her comprehensive exam! Another PhD candidate in the lab! 

18 June 2024: Congratulations to Annalisa for passing her comprehensive exam! She's now officially a PhD candidate! 

3 June 2024: The Lab welcomes NIDA Summer Internship student Amaya Williams!

15 May 2024: Congratulations to Sami for passing her qualifying exam!

25 April 2024: Our paper is now online in Addiction Biology: Transcriptional signatures of fentanyl use in the mouse VTA. 

1 March 2024: Congratulations to Annalisa on her poster award at the 2024 Graduate Student Research Forum! 

15 January 2024: The Lab welcomes Anatomy Graduate program rotation student Nicole Derosia! 

2 January 2024: The Lab welcomes Neuroscience Graduate program student Samiksha Pandey!

18 December 2023:  New pre-print alert: Transcriptional signatures of fentanyl use in the mouse ventral tegmental area

9 October 2023: The Lab welcomes technician Hajra Sohail and Biomedical Sciences Graduate program rotation student Natale Hall! 

17 August 2023: Notice of Award! We're excited to spend the next two years working on a project entitled "Molecular mechanisms of stress-sensitized opioid use and relapse", funded by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation! 

30 June 2023: Notice of Award!  We're excited to spend the next five years working on a NIDA DP-1 entitled "Identifying multi-omic signatures of opioid use and relapse"

5 June 2023: The Lab welcomes NIDA Summer Internship student Jennifer Jennings! 

1 June 2023: Congratulations to Allie and Annalisa on passing their qualifying exams!

6 March 2023: The Lab welcomes Neuroscience Graduate program student  Annalisa Montemarano!

3 January 2023: The Lab welcomes Anatomy Graduate program Student Allie Ostman!

16 December 2022: Congratulations to Nicole on publishing a first-author review article! Potential Utility of Cannabidiol in Stress-Related Disorders. 

7 December 2022: Check out Meg's interview on the Stories of Women in Neuroscience Podcast.

7 November 2022: The Lab welcomes technician Nicole Lookfong!

1 October 2022: Happy first Birthday to the lab!

30 August 2022: Our paper is now online in Biological Psychiatry: Adaptations in nucleus accumbens neuron subtypes mediate negative affective behaviors in fentanyl abstinence

15 May 2022: New pre-print alert: Negative emotional behavior during fentanyl abstinence is mediated by adaptations in nucleus accumbens neuron subtypes. 

24 January 2022: The Lab welcomes Lebanon Valley College undergraduate Taylor Seifert!

20 January 2022: Our lab's first peer-reviewed manuscript was accepted. Check it out here

29 November 2021: The Lab welcomes another Fox. Welcome to our first technician Logan Fox!

23 November 2021: Our lab's first pre-print entitled  "Chronic Physical and Vicarious Psychosocial Stress Alter Fentanyl Consumption and Nucleus Accumbens Rho GTPases in Male and Female C57BL/6 Mice" is now posted to biorXiv. Check it out here

27 October 2021: We're hiring! Please check out the links here