News

We Welcome Anne van den Heuvel for her Research Internship!

Warm Welcome to Our New Undergraduate Researchers: We’re excited to welcome Michael Tanios and Ava Fu to our research team! Welcome aboard, Michael and Ava!

We are thrilled to announce that Petra Mocellin has joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher! Welcome, Petra!

CONGRATULATIONS to Jeroen & Kurt for being selected by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Education & Training Committee as ACNP Travel Awardees for the 2023 ACNP Annual Meeting!

Congrats to Masaya for being awarded a postdoc fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation!

We welcome our new undergraduate researchers Julia Wu and Andy Bi!

Congrats to Odilia for being awarded the 2023 Alper Fellowship in the Neurosciences!

We welcome our new postdoctoral scholar Masaya Harada!

We welcome our new undergraduate researcher Yilin Shi!

Johanna has arrived! Johanna Mankel is a new visiting scholar and MD/PhD student from the Roeper lab! Welcome Johanna!

We welcome our new undergraduate researcher Hank Wang!

We welcome our new undergraduate researcher Mila Zou!

We welcome new undergraduate researcher Jenny Li!

Christine has accepted a postdoc position at UCSF in the lab of Vikaas Sohal. She is supported by an Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (K12)! Congrats, Christine!

Congrats to Jeroen & Christine on receiving a 2022 SfN Trainee Professional Development Award!

We welcome our new undergraduate researcher Jane Lee!

We welcome our new SURF fellow Peridot Park!

We welcome our new HWNI graduate student Odilia Lu!

We have two new PhDs: Congrats Drs. Christine & Amanda!

We welcome our new undergraduate researcher Siyi Gu!

We welcome new undergraduate researcher Thomas La!

Our new review on mesoaccumbal dopamine heterogeneity was published today in Ann. Rev. Neurosci.!

We welcome Manze Zhang to our lab! Manze is a Visiting Student Researcher from the School of Basic Medical Science @ Peking University!

Congrats to Kurt for being awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the BRAIN Initiative!

We welcome our new Lab Operations Manager Elaine Tan!

We welcome two new lab members: Kurt Fraser (postdoc) and Natalie Bernstein (grad student)!

Congrats to Ignas for accepting a Scientist position at Cajal Neuroscience in Seattle!

Congrats to Iskra for being awarded a 2y-scholarship from the Swedish Society for Medical Research!

We welcome Jochen Roeper (Goethe University) as the new Visiting Miller Professor at UC Berkeley and look forward to many exciting interactions over the next months!

Congrats to Ignas on completing his PhD thesis! First PhD of the lab!

Congrats to Han for being awarded a prestigious NARSAD Young Investigator Award!

Aleysha Chen joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome Aleysha!

Yilan Liang from Zhejiang University (Hailan Hu lab) joins the lab for a research internship! Welcome Yilan!

Congrats to Jeroen for being awarded a Rubicon postdoctoral fellowship!

Lilly Tang joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome Lilly!

Congrats to Hasan & Eric for being accepted into the Amgen 2019 program!

Kaho Adachi joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome Kaho!

Strahinja is a new visiting scholar and MD/PhD student from the Roeper lab! Welcome Strahinja!

The lab is awarded a research grant from The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation! Thanks for supporting our work!

Jeroen Verharen joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar! Welcome Jeroen!

Sophie Obayashi joins the lab as a research assistant! Welcome Sophie!

Congrats to Han for his “Honorable Mention” Poster Award at the GRC Optogenetics!

Congratulations to Hannah for winning a SURF L&S 2018 fellowship!

Hasan Ahmad joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome!

The Lammel lab wins an R01 research award from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of chronic stress in the brain. Congratulations!

The Lammel lab wins an R01 research award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the effects of drug-evoked synaptic plasticity in the brain. First R01, congratulations!

Amgen Scholar Jessica Du joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome Jessica!

Our newest postdoc starts in the lab. Welcome Iskra Dorocic!

Christine wins the 2016 NEB Passion in Science Award for Arts and Creativity! Congratulations Christine!!

We welcome our newest graduate student Amanda Tose! Welcome Amanda!

Hongbin Yang begins his postdoctoral fellowship. Welcome Hongbin!

Ignas wins Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship. Congratulations Ignas!!

Undergraduate research assistant joins the lab. Welcome Vivian!

Spring graduate student begins her rotation in the lab. Welcome Amanda!

Stephan received a grant from the Whitehall Foundation!

Winter 2015/2016 graduate students begin their rotation in the lab. Welcome Tomer and Stefanie!

Fall 2015 graduate students begin their rotation in the lab. Welcome Irene and Amanda!

Stephan received a seed grant from the Brain Research Foundation to pursue addiction research

Stephan received 2015 Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship Award.

We welcome 3 outstanding undergraduate researchers to our team – Welcome Naveena, Kulsum and Michael!

Christine and Ignas join the lab for a PhD thesis!

Rotation student Christine Liu receives a NSF Graduate Fellowship Award – Congratulations, Christine!

First postdoc joins lab – Welcome Johannes ‘Han’ De Jong!

First graduate students rotate – Welcome Christine Liu, Adam Hoagland and Ignas Cerniauskas!

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Upcoming Events

Stephan’s tenure talk at UC Berkeley! Please contact Stephan for a zoom link if you like to attend the seminar!

Christine (Oct 19, PM, #X11) and Han (Oct 23, PM, #U38) will be presenting posters at SfN in Chicago! Also, do not miss Christine’s Art of Neuroscience Exhibition!

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Stephan will be presenting at the ACNP meeting in Palm Springs (Dec. 3-7, 2017). Don’t miss his poster “Nucleus Accumbens Subnuclei Regulate Motivated Behavior via Direct Inhibition and Disinhibition of VTA Dopamine Subpopulations” on Dec. 5 5:30-7:30pm (Board# T267).

Hongbin and Han will be presenting at SfN in Washington on Monday Nov. 13, 2017 (PM session). Board# WW34 and WW40! Also, do not miss Christine’s 2017 Art of Neuroscience Exhibition!

Stephan will be presenting in the “Synaptic Integration Seminar Series” at NIH in Bethesda on Tuesday Oct. 21, 2017 (11AM-12PM). The title of his talk is “Neural Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Motivated Behaviors”.