Harris Blankenship’s paper, “VTA dopamine neurons are hyperexcitable in 3xTg-AD mice due to casein kinase 2-dependent SK channel dysfunction, ” was accepted by Nature Communications. Other authors include Kelsey Carter, Bill Freeman, and Amanda Sharpe.
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Harris Blankenship, who has now won the Graduate School Dean’s award for three consecutive years (2022-2024)!
Congratulations to former Fleming Summer Scholars Sofia Weaver (2022) and Alex Lin (2021) who have been awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarships!
Congratulations to Harris Blankenship who in January 2023 passed his general exam in the Physiology graduate program at OUHSC!
Congratulations to Kelsey Carter, who won the best T-shirt design for the 2022 OMRF Aging & Metabolism retreat!
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Harris Blankenship, who was awarded a fellowship grant from the National Institute on Aging (F31 AG079620)!
Congratulations to Harris Blankenship, who won the Graduate School Dean’s Award for Scientific Achievement at the 2022 Great Symposium! This comes with a 1,500 travel award.
Congratulations to Harris Blankenship who was awarded an OMRF Stipend Scholarship for 2021-2022!
Dr. Beckstead received the 2021 J. Donald & Patricia H. Capra Award for Scientific Achievement at OMRF. This reflects excellent work by past and present members of the whole lab!
In August 2020 Sergio Dominguez Lopez was accepted as a Neuroscience Scholar Program Associate by the Society for Neuroscience. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Sergio Dominguez Lopez, who was awarded a Diversity K99/R00 award from NIDA in May 2020 and was promoted to Research Assistant Member
Thanks to the 21 guests from 5 states that visited for Dopamine Club on November 8, 2019!
There were 19 great talks headlined by special lectures from Drs. Stephanie Gantz (NIDA Intramural) and Habibeh Khoshbouei (University of Florida).
Congratulations to Chris Tschumi, who in April, 2019 successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled Neurotensin-induced plasticity of inhibitory neurotransmission in midbrain dopamine neurons!
Congratulations to Sergio Dominguez-Lopez, who recently came in second place at the 2019 ASPET/EB meeting in the Dolores C. Shockley competition for best neuropharmacology poster by a postdoctoral fellow!
Congratulations to Sergio Dominguez-Lopez, who was recently awarded an OMRF postdoctoral travel award to attend a conference in spring of 2019!
Congratulations to Will Lynch, whose recent publication was awarded the cover of the December 2018 issue of Movement Disorders!