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Congratulations to Anurima Mummaneni, Melanie Dratva, and Shiyin Liu for obtaining waived membership awards for early career scientists to the prestigious Society of Biological Psychiatry!
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Welcome Dr. Katie Bessette and new graduate students, Melanie Dratva and Shiyin Liu, to the lab!
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Michael Srouji has accepted a full-time position at the UCSF Thrive Lab with Dr. Aoife O’Donovan. We will miss you, Michael!
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Eden Alter and Lily Li are accepted into the UCLA Psychology Undergraduate Honors Program, congrats!
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Congratulations to Abby Droeger for accepting a position in the psychology graduate program at UT Austin!
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Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Somers for accepting a tenure-track faculty position at Auburn University!
We will miss you, Jenn, but are looking forward to seeing the amazing things you’ll accomplish with your new lab!
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Welcome Sara Wong and Tiff Widjaja to the CANDY Lab!
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New UCLA Cousins Center Seed Grant!
The lab receives a pilot grant to examine how inflammatory cytokines, the expression of inflammatory genes influence neurocircuits underlying reward processing and the extent to which these processes predict antidepressant response in adolescents with depression.
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R21 Grant received in collaboration with Dr. Yan Li at UCSF!
R21 Grant received in collaboration with Dr. Yan Li at UCSF! The project will use deuterated glucose as a probe to characterize glutamate metabolism in patients with depression using spectroscopy methods on a 7T MRI Machine
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CANDY lab moves to UCLA!
The lab has officially moved to the Department of Psychology at UCLA. Go Bruins!