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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

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Congratulations to our graduate student Shane Desfor for being awarded a F31 fellowship from NIDA!

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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.

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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.

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Congratulations to our graduate student Shane Desfor for being selected as a UCSD Merkin Graduate Fellow

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Congratulations to Daimeng Sun for his successful master's thesis defense

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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.

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san-diego-awarded-8-million-to-uncover-genetic-foundations-of-substance-use-disorders

https://www.genomeweb.com/genetic-research/ucsd-tackle-genetics-drug-abuse-8m-grant-novel-rat-genetics-repository

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Yanning Zuo gives a talk at the Complex Trait Community in collaboration with the Rat Genomics Community (CTC-RG) (October 2-5, 2024)

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Welcome to Nora Ding and Ansh Sarda, two UCSD undergraduate students joining our lab.

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Francesca Telese gives a seminar at the Department of Physiology at LSU in New Orleans (September 26, 2024)

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Montserrat Rodriguez, a first-year graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program, starts her Fall quarter rotation in our lab. Welcome!

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Francesca gives a talk at the 10th Annual Retreat of the Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats

https://ratgenes.org/meetings/nida-center-for-gwas-in-outbred-rats-10th-annual-retreat/

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Welcome to Dr. Carl Litif, a new postdoc in the lab, and congratulations on the postdoctoral fellowship supported by the NIDA Diversity Supplement program!

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Shane Desfor attends the Neuroscience of Addiction Course at Cold Spring Harbor (August 6-13, 2024)

https://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-DRUG&year=24

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Mari Williams, a graduate student from the BMS program, joins our lab! Welcome!

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Francesca gives a seminar at the Department of Naples of the Federico II University of Naples (June 19, 2024, Naples, Italy)

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Congratulations to Shane Desfor for passing his spring evaluation 2nd year exam

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Francesca delivers the Early Career Achievement Award Lecture at the annual IBANGS meeting (June 2-7, 2024, London, Ontario)

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Francesca presents a poster at the 2024 NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Team Meeting (May 22-24, Bethesda, MD)

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Francesca Telese is invited to be a keynote speaker at the 2024 Summer Symposium at the Clemson University Center for Human Genetics (May 17, 2024, Greenwood, SC).

All Lab News

Our FEDUPP preprint is on bioRxiv

Congratulations to our graduate student Shane Desfor for being awarded a F31 fellowship from NIDA!

Manuscript accepted in Addiction Neuroscience

Manuscript accepted in Neuropharmacology

Congratulations to our graduate student Shane Desfor for being selected as a UCSD Merkin Graduate Fellow

Congratulations to Daimeng Sun for his successful master's thesis defense

Congratulations to our collaborator Abe Palmer for receiving funding for the NIDA P30 Core Center of Excellence

Yanning Zuo gives a talk at the Complex Trait Community in collaboration with the Rat Genomics Community (CTC-RG) (October 2-5, 2024)

Welcome to Nora Ding and Ansh Sarda, two UCSD undergraduate students joining our lab.

Francesca Telese gives a seminar at the Department of Physiology at LSU in New Orleans (September 26, 2024)

Montserrat Rodriguez, a first-year graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program, starts her Fall quarter rotation in our lab. Welcome!

Francesca gives a talk at the 10th Annual Retreat of the Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats

Welcome to Dr. Carl Litif, a new postdoc in the lab, and congratulations on the postdoctoral fellowship supported by the NIDA Diversity Supplement program!

Shane Desfor attends the Neuroscience of Addiction Course at Cold Spring Harbor (August 6-13, 2024)

Mari Williams, a graduate student from the BMS program, joins our lab! Welcome!

Francesca gives a seminar at the Department of Naples of the Federico II University of Naples (June 19, 2024, Naples, Italy)

Congratulations to Shane Desfor for passing his spring evaluation 2nd year exam

Francesca delivers the Early Career Achievement Award Lecture at the annual IBANGS meeting (June 2-7, 2024, London, Ontario)

Francesca presents a poster at the 2024 NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Team Meeting (May 22-24, Bethesda, MD)

Francesca Telese is invited to be a keynote speaker at the 2024 Summer Symposium at the Clemson University Center for Human Genetics (May 17, 2024, Greenwood, SC).

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