Congratulations to May on being awarded the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program predoctoral fellowship! This Fellowship will provide three years of support for May’s investigation of the factors driving nicotine addiction.
Did you know? Nearly 70% of tobacco users want to quit, but 90% of those who try fail! May’s work will help us understand why this is.
Congratulations to Desiree on being awarded the Inclusive Excellence Ambassador’s Fellowship, which will support her work mentoring incoming graduate students!
Congratulations to Lizzy on her receipt of the CNLM Jared M. Roberts Memorial Graduate Student Award! This award will fund Lizzy’s travel to the annual Winter Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Meeting at Park City, UT, where she will present her research investigating how neural plasticity induced by opioid withdrawal contributes to relapse.
Congratulations to Ladan, who was invited to present her Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program project investigating long-term memory in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s Disease at the 2020 Undergraduate Research Spotlight! We are so proud of your hard work this year and excited to see you pursue your future goals!
Our paper systematically mapping inputs to different VTA cell types came out today in Cell Reports! We found that cell types defined by neurochemical phenotype (e.g., Cre line) had no impact on the global inputs those cells received, but the output site of the VTA cells did influence input patterns though spatial localization of those cells in the VTA. Check it out in the publications section.
Congratulations to May on being awarded the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program predoctoral fellowship! This Fellowship will provide three years of support for May’s investigation of the factors driving nicotine addiction.
Did you know? Nearly 70% of tobacco users want to quit, but 90% of those who try fail! May’s work will help us understand why this is.
Congratulations to Desiree on being awarded the Inclusive Excellence Ambassador’s Fellowship, which will support her work mentoring incoming graduate students!
Congratulations to Lizzy on her receipt of the CNLM Jared M. Roberts Memorial Graduate Student Award! This award will fund Lizzy’s travel to the annual Winter Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Meeting at Park City, UT, where she will present her research investigating how neural plasticity induced by opioid withdrawal contributes to relapse.
March 2020
Pieter Derdeyn joined the lab. Welcome Pieter!
Congratulations to Ladan, who was invited to present her Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program project investigating long-term memory in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s Disease at the 2020 Undergraduate Research Spotlight! We are so proud of your hard work this year and excited to see you pursue your future goals!
May’s beautiful pumpkin cake won the Best Tasting award at the Center for the Neuroscience of Learning and Memory Friendsgiving potluck!
May and Aly presented at the UCI Brain Launch Whiteboard Brainstorming Session
October 2019 May Hui joined the lab
September 2019: The Beier lab was recently awarded the prestigious NIH DP2 award!
https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/uoc–urr100419.php
https://som.uci.edu/news_releases/Beier-receives-directors-new-innovator-award.asp
June 2019
Desiree Macchia, Michael Toledano, Lizzy Hubbard, and Aly Rogers joined the lab.
April 2019
Guilian Tian, Sean Carroll, Jessica Park, Nora Ayache, and Anthony Tran joined the lab.
Check out the press release of our most recent article published in Cell Reports:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uoc–usr012419.php
January 7th, 2019
Jessica Oshiro, Nina Aghakhani, and Ladan Bigdeli joined the lab as Bio199 students. Welcome Jessica, Nina, and Ladan!
January 2nd, 2019
Our paper systematically mapping inputs to different VTA cell types came out today in Cell Reports! We found that cell types defined by neurochemical phenotype (e.g., Cre line) had no impact on the global inputs those cells received, but the output site of the VTA cells did influence input patterns though spatial localization of those cells in the VTA. Check it out in the publications section.
October 29th, 2018
Mary-Ha Nguyen joined the team as a Student Assistant. Welcome Mary!
October 18th, 2018
Rita Shdid joined the team as a Student Assistant. Welcome Rita!