Aly won a UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation fellowship! So happy to see her efforts be rewarded, she’s been doing an amazing job leading our undergraduate lab seminar/discussion course (informally called B-lab 101, now 102). Congrats Aly!!
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Congratulations to lab superstar Pieter for winning a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award in the Life Sciences – Artificial Intelligence group! The prestigious award will provide three years of funding for Pieter’s exciting work. 🙂 We’re proud of you!!
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February 2020: Dr. Beier received a UCI Conte Center Seed grant to identify the neural circuits which mediate increased susceptibility to opiate addiction in individuals who experienced early-life adversity: https://contecenter.uci.edu/seed-grant-winners/ November 2019: Dr. Beier was awarded the NIH New Innovator Award for the project: Sculpting the Brain: High-Resolution Spatiotemporally-Controlled Modulation of Memories. https://commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator/awardrecipients
September 2020: Dr. Beier was awarded the One Mind Rising Stars Award to investigate the neural circuits involved in the development of depression: https://onemind.org/rising-star-awards/ September 2020: Dr. Beier received a grant from American Parkinson’s Disease Association to study circuit-level pathology caused by dopamine depletion: https://www.apdaparkinson.org/research/investigators/kevin_beier/ July 2020: Dr. Beier received a Freedman Prize Honorable Mention […]
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 […]
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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!
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
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 […]
Aly won a DTEI fellowship!
Aly won a UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation fellowship! So happy to see her efforts be rewarded, she’s been doing an amazing job leading our undergraduate lab seminar/discussion course (informally called B-lab 101, now 102). Congrats Aly!!
Katrina joins the lab!
Katrina Lee Bartas joins us as a graduate student from MCSB! Welcome Katrina!!
Pieter Derdeyn wins the NSF GRFP!
Congratulations to lab superstar Pieter for winning a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award in the Life Sciences – Artificial Intelligence group! The prestigious award will provide three years of funding for Pieter’s exciting work. 🙂 We’re proud of you!!
Congratulations Lizzy on your poster award!
Lizzy’s poster presentation at the 8th annual Conte Center Symposium won a poster award! Drinks on Lizzy!!!
Congratulations Kevin!
Kevin won third place during the Kahoot game at the annual Physiology and Biophysics holiday party!
(Even more) recent awards
February 2020: Dr. Beier received a UCI Conte Center Seed grant to identify the neural circuits which mediate increased susceptibility to opiate addiction in individuals who experienced early-life adversity: https://contecenter.uci.edu/seed-grant-winners/ November 2019: Dr. Beier was awarded the NIH New Innovator Award for the project: Sculpting the Brain: High-Resolution Spatiotemporally-Controlled Modulation of Memories. https://commonfund.nih.gov/newinnovator/awardrecipients
(More) recent awards
September 2020: Dr. Beier was awarded the One Mind Rising Stars Award to investigate the neural circuits involved in the development of depression: https://onemind.org/rising-star-awards/ September 2020: Dr. Beier received a grant from American Parkinson’s Disease Association to study circuit-level pathology caused by dopamine depletion: https://www.apdaparkinson.org/research/investigators/kevin_beier/ July 2020: Dr. Beier received a Freedman Prize Honorable Mention […]
Dr. Beier’s recent awards
Dr. Beier was awarded the Tobacco-Related Diseases Research Program High Impact Pilot Award and the New Investigator Award
Congratulations to May for her Predoc fellowship award
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 […]
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 […]
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!