August - Alyssa Romportl presents her (new and improved!) poster Deletion of muscarinic M5 receptors from dopamine neurons alters exploratory and cocaine-seeking behavior in mice at the Neurobiology of Drug Addiction Conference GRC in Newry, Maine
June — Alyssa Romportl presents her poster Deletion of muscarinic M5 receptors from dopamine neurons alters exploratory and cocaine-seeking behavior in mice at the 2024 Post-Baccalaureate Poster Symposium
June — Kasey Bertelsen presents his poster Impact of Metformin on Cocaine Sensitization and Alterations to AMPK in Mice at the 2024 Post-Baccalaureate Poster Symposium
May — Jen Robeson joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant
April — Jack Ross presents his poster Poke Architecture Altered During an Instrumental Conditioning Task after Early Life Stress Exposure in a Mouse Model at the 2024 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium
2023
July — Kasey Bertelsen joins the lab as a MINDS Scholar
June — Alyssa Romportl joins the lab as a Research Tech
June — Grace Richardson joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant
March — Lizzie Souter receives an F31 from NIDA, Jack Ross joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant
January — Dr. Chris Petersen accepts a position at NAMSA, a biotechnology company
2022
November — Anna Kauffman rotates as a graduate student in the Comparative and Molecular Biosciences PhD Program, Eera Kale joins the lab as an undergraduate research assistant
September — Dr. Anna Ingebretson accepts a post-doctoral associate position in the lab of Dr. Jessica Nielson
June — The Lemos Lab welcomes Michelle Lu as an undergraduate research assistant
May 10-13th — Stress Neurobiology Workshop at the University of South Carolina
Highlights:
Dr. Chris Petersen wins a travel award
Dr. Anna Ingebretson wins the award for best postdoc poster for her poster “Differential regulation of cholinergic interneuron firing by CRFR1 in the nucleus accumbens of male and female mice”
2021
November – Graduate student Lizzie Souter passes her oral preliminary exam and advances to candidacy!
Fall – Rachel Dick joins the lab as a rotating graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience
August – Angel Robert presents their LSSURP poster “Analyzing Activation in Discrete CRH Populations Following Aversive and Appetitive Stimuli in Male and Female Mice”
June – Lucy Anderson joins the Lemos Lab as an undergraduate research assistant
May – Angel Robert joins the lab as a member of the Summer 2021 Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (LSSURP), a 10-week research program for traditionally underrepresented students supported by the University of Minnesota Medical School
Spring – Daniel Mendez joins the lab as a rotating graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience
2020
Fall – Laura Buczek joins the lab as a rotating graduate student within the Department of Neuroscience
February – R01 awarded from National Institute of Mental Health
R01 MH122749, R01, 2020-2025, Determining the unique and dynamic neural constellation belonging to acute and chronic stress states.
