Congratulations to Zoya for receiving an 2025 NAPE Summer Fellowship!!

Carlee Toddes attends GRC on Social Behavior in Switzerland!!

Preston is awarded a UW 2025 Mary Gates Research Scholarship!

[CLICK FOR PHOTO ALBUM} Golden and Heshmati lab undergraduates present at the UW 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium!

Collaboration with Stuber lab published in Neuron!

Collaboration with Bruchas lab published in Nature!

Collaboration with Stuber lab published in eLife!

Collaborative preprint with the Heshmati lab posted on bioRxiv!

Golden lab published editorial for Special Issue in Psychopharmacology!

Heshmati and Golden labs attend Consciousness GRC in Italy!

Sam was very excited to be hosted by Dr. Jacob Nordman from SIU Medicine in Illinois!

KING5 News Article and Video
KING5 Seattle News highlighted some of the work from our lab this week! This highlight focused on ongoing efforts to understand fentanyl addiction, with fantastic views of Jovana, Carlie, Hallie, and others in action!!

Kevin Bai, rising undergraduate senior in the lab, has been awarded a prestigious WRF Levinson Emerging Scholar Award! This follows his recent success also being awarded a 3Rs Pilot Grant! Congrats Kevin!

Excited to share work by Jordan Elum from the Zweifel Lab, in collaboration with Eric Szelenyi, that has recently been published in Cell Reports: Distinct dynamics and intrinsic properties in ventral tegmental area populations mediate reward association and motivation. Please see Publications section of web site for full description.

Sam teaches at the FENS Summer Workshop in Laussane!

[CLICK FOR MORE PHOTOS] Kelsey presented her summer work at the UW ENDURE Symposium!

We have received the Notice of Award for a collaborative R44 SBIR Phase 2 with Neurolux and the Heshmati Lab. This NIMH award will support the development of BMADs and associated software/hardware through the end of 2026!

Carlee Toddes presented at IASP 2024 World Congress on Pain in Amsterdam. Carlee received a travel award to support her trip.

ArgiNLS manuscript selected as "Publication of the Week" by Science in Seattle!

Nastacia has published a brief Primer on SimBA at NPP-DPN. This primer is for people who are new to the field of ML behavioral analysis and would like to get an idea of where to start!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44277-024-00014-9