August — Rose Dinh presents her poster Neuroanatomical Characterization of CRF projections to the Nucleus Accumbens at the Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program Symposium
July— Lizzie Eckenwiler successfully defends her dissertation and earns a PhD in neuroscience. Congratulations, Dr. Eckenwiler!
June — Kameron Monson, Benjamin Wehling and Rose Dinh join the lab as undergraduate research assistants!
June — Jing Jing Munson joins the lab as a Research Tech!
May — Dr. Julia Lemos receives tenure from the University of Minnesota!
April — Alyssa Romportl receives acceptance into a Neuroscience PhD program at University of Colorado, Denver!
April — Kasey Bertelsen receives acceptance into a Neuroscience PhD program at University of Maryland, Baltimore!
January — Lizzie Eckenwiler presents her poster CRF Release in Ventral Pallidum Triggered by Successful Reward Retrieval at the Winter Conference on Brain Research in Lake Tahoe, California
2024
August - Alyssa Romportl presents her (new and improved!) poster Deletion of muscarinic M5 receptors from dopamine neurons alters exploratory and cocaine-seeking behavior in mice at the Neurobiology of Drug Addiction Conference GRC in Newry, Maine
June — Alyssa Romportl presents her poster Deletion of muscarinic M5 receptors from dopamine neurons alters exploratory and cocaine-seeking behavior in mice at the 2024 Post-Baccalaureate Poster Symposium
June — Kasey Bertelsen presents his poster Impact of Metformin on Cocaine Sensitization and Alterations to AMPK in Mice at the 2024 Post-Baccalaureate Poster Symposium
May — Jen Robeson joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant!
April — Jack Ross presents his poster Poke Architecture Altered During an Instrumental Conditioning Task after Early Life Stress Exposure in a Mouse Model at the 2024 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium
March — Lizzie Eckenwiler presents her poster Modulation of Ventral Arkypallidal Neuron Activity by CRF Signaling and Stress Exposure at the Gordon Research Conference: Basal Ganglia in Ventura, California
2023
July — Kasey Bertelsen joins the lab as a MINDS Scholar!
June — Alyssa Romportl joins the lab as a Research Tech!
June — Grace Richardson joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant!
March — Lizzie Eckenwiler receives an F31 from NIDA
March — Jack Ross joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant!
January — Dr. Chris Petersen accepts a position at NAMSA, a biotechnology company
January — Lizzie Eckenwiler presents her poster Modulation of Ventral Arkypallidal Neuron Activity by Corticotropin Releasing Factor (CRF) Signaling at the Winter Conference on Brain Research in Snowbird, Utah
2022
November — Anna Kauffman rotates as a graduate student in the Comparative and Molecular Biosciences PhD Program!
November — Eera Kale joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant!
September — Dr. Anna Ingebretson accepts a post-doctoral associate position in the lab of Dr. Jessica Nielson
June — Michelle Lu joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant!
May 10-13th — Stress Neurobiology Workshop at the University of South Carolina
Highlights:
Dr. Chris Petersen wins a travel award
Dr. Anna Ingebretson wins the award for best postdoc poster for her poster “Differential regulation of cholinergic interneuron firing by CRFR1 in the nucleus accumbens of male and female mice”
2021
November – Graduate student Lizzie Souter passes her oral preliminary exam and advances to candidacy!
Fall – Rachel Dick joins the lab as a rotating graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience
August – Angel Robert presents their LSSURP poster “Analyzing Activation in Discrete CRH Populations Following Aversive and Appetitive Stimuli in Male and Female Mice”
June – Lucy Anderson joins the Lab as an undergraduate research assistant!
May – Angel Robert joins the lab as a member of the Summer 2021 Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (LSSURP), a 10-week research program for traditionally underrepresented students supported by the University of Minnesota Medical School!
Spring – Daniel Mendez joins the lab as a rotating graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience!
2020
Fall – Laura Buczek joins the lab as a rotating graduate student within the Department of Neuroscience!
February – R01 awarded from National Institute of Mental Health
R01 MH122749, R01, 2020-2025, Determining the unique and dynamic neural constellation belonging to acute and chronic stress states.
