Congratulations to Kyu Ro, who was awarded the prestigious McNair Scholarship!
Janet Lee and Kyu Ro are awarded UROP funding!
We are proud to announce that both Janet Lee and Kyu Ro have been awarded summer research funding from the University of Colorado Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program!
Aversion or salience signaling by VTA glutamate neurons
Our new paper is out! We show that subsets of ventral tegmental area glutamate-releasing neurons have firing patterns consistent with aversion or salience. We also find that VTA glutamate-releasing neurons have further diversity with respect to signaling reward expectation, reward approach behavior, and learned cues.
You can download the paper here, "Featured Content" at the new Cell Press journal iScience
The lab is building!
We've got equipment, mice, and a great team. Excited to get going!
New collaborative paper
Barker et al finds that separate glutamatergic and GABAergic lateral preoptic neurons target single lateral habenula neurons for the convergent transmission of glutamate and GABA that influences motivated behavior. Congrats David and the Morales group!
Check it out here
Review of the cytology and connections of the lateral habenula, an avatar of adaptive behaving
The lab's first paper is out!
Root lab begins in 2018
Root lab is gestating, we will be "born" and start experiments on 1/8/18.