Congrats to Chris, Courtney, and Alex on the new paper!
In work led by Chris Phillips (PhD candidate at UT Dallas) we characterized dopamine release across the striatum as mice learned and executed a skilled reaching task.
Phillips, C. D., Hodge, A. T., Myers, C. C., Leventhal, D. K. & Burgess, C. R. Striatal dopamine contributions to skilled motor learning. J. Neurosci. (2024) doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0240-24.2024
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/05/22/JNEUROSCI.0240-24.2024
Congratulations to Brandon and Alvin on receiving research grants!
Brandon was awarded an F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from NINDS and a 2023 SRS Foundation Small Research Grant. And Alvin was awarded a Rackham Candidate Research Grant.
Congrats to Brandon on his new paper!
Congratulations to Brandon, Katie, and Sarah on our recent publication outlining a role for striatal dopamine in the regulation of sleep and cataplexy.
Toth, B. A., Chang, K. S., Fechtali, S. & Burgess, C. R. Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens promotes REM sleep and cataplexy. iScience 26, (2023)
Congratulations to Brandon for receiving a research grant!
Brandon was awarded a $23,000 grant from Wake Up Narcolepsy, a non-profit dedicated to enhancing narcolepsy awareness (https://www.wakeupnarcolepsy.org/).
Congratulations to Hannah!
Congrats to Hannah on successful completion of a Molecular and Integrative Physiology Masters degree! Hannah is off to work in the Kaczorowski lab.
Burgess lab collabs
Some recent papers from Burgess lab collaborations with our colleagues in the Flagel and Elias labs here at UM.
Fast neurotransmitter identity of MCH neurons: Do contents depend on context? Bethany G Beekly, Alan Rupp, Christian R Burgess, Carol F Elias
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37149229/
Inhibition of dopamine neurons prevents incentive value encoding of a reward cue: With revelations from deep phenotyping. Amanda G. Iglesias, Alvin S. Chiu, Jason Wong, Paolo Campus, Fei Li, Zitong (Nemo) Liu, Shiv A. Patel, Karl Deisseroth, Huda Akil, Christian R. Burgess, Shelly B. Flagel
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.03.539324v1
Congrats to Katie, Alvin, and Hannah on being awarded research grants!
Katie has been awarded an F31 from the NIH!
Alvin and Hannah were awarded Rackham Graduate Student Research Grants from UM!
Congrats to Liam on his recent review article
Recent review on the promise of MCH system-based drugs for the treatment of sleep disorders: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.952275/full
Burgess lab summer undergraduate seminars
Congratulations to Anna, Jack, Elizabeth, Katie, Selina, and Swathi on fantastic end of summer data talks. And thanks to the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and the UM Neuroscience Innovators for providing undergraduate fellowships for summer research.
Congratulations (and goodbye) to Chris!
Congrats to Chris on starting his PhD at UT Dallas.
New Neuron Preview article by Lexi!
Congratulations to Lexi for publishing a Neuron Preview article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732101028X
