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Welcome to the team, Tiffany!
We're excited to welcome Tiffany Chin as a new graduate student. Tiffany joins us from the Biology Program and is supported by the Pathways in Biological Sciences T32 program.
Our preprint “Transcription initiation profiling defines the regulatory logic of astrocyte gene regulation” is on bioRxiv
Kudos to Ashley Kumar and team, including our collaborators from Benner and Heinz labs at UCSD
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.03.722406v1
Manuscript Accepted in BMC Genomics
Manuscript accepted in BMC Genomics titled “Novel candidate genes for vestibular function identified through GWAS in the hybrid mouse diversity panel”. Francesca Telese is a co-author.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-026-12810-y
Our preprint “Reln haploinsufficiency enhances fentanyl-induced locomotion and striatal activity without affecting opioid reinforcement and relapse-like behavior” is on bioRxiv
Kudos to Carl Litif and team for characterizing the behavioral effects of the opioid fentanyl in a mouse model of Reelin haploinsufficiency
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.21.707172v3
Manuscript Accepted in Otology & Neurotology
Manuscript accepted in Otology and Neurotology titled “Whole Genome Sequencing of Sporadic Vestibular Schwannoma Reveals Novel Genetic Changes”. Ashley Kumar and Francesca Telese are co-authors.
Manuscript Accepted in Nature Protocols
Manuscript accepted in Nature Protocols titled “Profiling active RNA polymerase II transcription start sites from total RNA by capped small RNA sequencing (csRNA-seq)”. Patricia Montilla-Perez and Francesca Telese are co-authors.
Our FEDUPP preprint is on bioRxiv
Kudos to Andy Mingyang Yao and Avi Libster for the development of FEDUPP: Feeding Experimentation Device Users Processing Package to Assess Learning and Cognitive Flexibility
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.14.670424
Manuscript accepted in Addiction Neuroscience
Manuscript accepted in Addiction Neuroscience titled “Corticotrophin-releasing hormone binding protein in the basolateral amygdala: divergent roles in cocaine and opioid addiction like behaviors”. Arnav Gurha, Avi Libster, and Francesca Telese are co-authors.
Manuscript accepted in Neuropharmacology
Manuscript accepted in Neuropharmacology titled “Perinatal Fentanyl Exposure Drives Enduring Addiction Risk and Central Amygdala Gene Dysregulation”. Our visiting graduate student Yeji Shin and Francesca Telese are co-authors.
Congratulations to our collaborator Abe Palmer for receiving funding for the NIDA P30 Core Center of Excellence
Francesca Telese was quoted in the press release from UCSD and an article published by Genomeweb.
