by Vivek | Jul 29, 2020 | Lab Blog, Lab News, Lab Press, Science
The Kumar Lab received a grant from NIDA to build new models of addiction. The press release is here https://www.jax.org/news-and-insights/2020/july/building-better-mouse-models-for-addiction-research The project summary is available here: PROJECT SUMMARY Addiction is...
by Vivek | Jul 14, 2020 | Lab Blog, Lab News
Dr. Yttri, from Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biological Sciences, presented his lab’s latest work from this paper. The paper uses unsupervised learning to understand the types of behaviors mice carry out. Dr. Yttri met with postdocs, engineers, and...
by Vivek | Mar 6, 2020 | Lab Blog, Lab News
I was part of a special emphasis study section last week titled – “Circadian Patterns of Gene Expression Associated with Disease” for RFA-HL-20-016. The RFA was sponsored by NHLBI and NIDA, so most of the proposals revolved around priorities of these...
by Vivek | Jan 13, 2020 | Lab News
Vivek and Arojit attended the NIDA genetics meeting in Bethesda, MD. They presented two posters. Vivek presented our work on cloning of a mutation that regulates cocaine responses. This is a new gene that has not been linked to cocaine responses. Abstract from the...
by Vivek | Dec 3, 2019 | Lab News
Vivek was invited to give a seminar at Dartmouth University by Dr. Gio Bosco and his postdoctoral fellow Shiva Sathyanarayana. Vivek spoke about the lab’s work on Cyfip2 (work of postdoctoral Arojit Mitra, Kyungin Kim, and others). He also spoke about the...
