New paper out 🎉led by @Ryan_ETyler with help from maya bluitt! Lasting behavioral changes and adaptations in glutamatergic targets in insula and BNST following stressor exposure - and a role for mGlu3 signaling in some of these changes. Way to go team! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ePF36T90t3MS

The latest preprint from @LexKravitz lab is here!! We asked how obesity drives changes in NAc circuits and food seeking. 🍔🐭biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint led by @Ryan_ETyler 🎉! Potentiated sensitivity to alcohol interoceptive effects following stressor with changes in GABA-related genes in insular cortex and nucleus accumbens. maya bluitt Dr. Laura Ornelas Kalynn Van Voorhies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

THE #NationalChampionship IS SET! Kansas Men’s Basketball & Carolina Basketball will play for the title Monday at 9:20pm ET on TBS 🏆 #MFinalFour

The scene on Franklin Street in downtown Chapel Hill after #UNC defeats #Duke in an epic Final 4 game for the history books. bit.ly/3DAXngH #UNCvsDUKE

still in shock!! Feeling SO grateful for the incredible support & mentorship from Dr. Joyce Besheer, previous advisors DrWorms @LexKravitz and the countless others who helped me get this far!!

Congrats to our newest NSF GRFP awardees: maya bluitt, jp flores (he/him), Sarah Anne Howard, and Nick Randolph! Plus honorable mention for Cassie Phillips, Nina Nishiyama, Margaret Dedloff, and Brandon Pratt. What a great way to start Graduate Student Appreciation Week!

Our first group lab pic since Fall 2019! 🎉 Good to finally have an updated one!

p < 0.05: serve p < 0.01: slay p < 0.001: soooo true bestie

Science fam in town La Jolla Alcohol Research Sema Quadir, PhD maya bluitt

Latest paper exploring motivation in obesity and underlying NAc circuits from the @LexKravitz lab! This work was vaulted over the finish line by our incredibly talented undergrad Yiyan Pan 🍔🍕🥯🐁 biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-…

ayeee that’s my mentor!!! CONGRATS JB, so very much deserved!! Dr. Joyce Besheer

We’re hiring! Projects combine genomics, in vivo ephys and synaptic physiology to understand how plasticity in basal ganglia circuits give rise to maladaptive decision making- with a focus on models of substance use disorder and chronic pain! (1/n)

Stop by and see ⁦maya bluitt⁩ presenting her dissertation project! #RSA2023

dynamic duo ❤️‍🔥