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All the Latest and Greatest

Congratulations Kirsty Erikson of the Siciliano Lab for being awarded a NIDA F31 for
"Estrogen receptor regulation of cocaine effects on dopamine terminals"

Congratulations
Danny Winder, PhD on being awarded Outstanding Mentor of the Year at the 2022 Vanderbilt Brain Institute retreat.

Congratulations
Snigdha Mukerjee of the Siciliano Lab on being awarded Brain and Behavior Foundation NARSAD for
"Protein targets that relay oral chemesthesis of alcohol from the periphery in the brain"

Congratulations
Nicholas Petersen of the Winder Lab on being an NIAAA F30 for
"Neuron-astrocyte interactions mediating ethanol and noradrenergic modulation of wake-promoting vPAG dopamine neurons"

VCAR Virtual Exhibit
Spring 2020-ArtLab Student Project Virtual Exhibit
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ArtLab- Exploring the intersection of art and science at Vanderbilt

Congratulations
Michelle Bedenbaugh, PhD of the Simerly Lab making the cover of JCN.
November 2022 issue
Image showing MC3R expression in a whole mouse brain

Congratulations
Cody Siciliano, PhD on receiving the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund research award
Cody Siciliano, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has been selected to receive a one-year, $100,000 research award from the Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund to support his studies of the neural substrates of memory.

Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter
to serve on
NIAAA's National Advisory Council
The National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism advises and makes recommendations to the Secretary, HHS; the Director, NIH; and the Director, NIAAA; on research program and policy matters in the field of alcohol abuse and alcoholism.
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