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2025 pilot grants awarded

February 6, 2025February 5, 2025 by Oksana Polesskaya

Congratulations to the 2025 Pilot Grants recipients:

Caitlin A. Orsini, PhD (University of Texas at Austin).
Project: Examination of behavioral vulnerability factors that confer risk to synthetic opioid use.

Categories Pilot Project Tags Pilot
Manuscript accepted in PLOS Genetics
Visualizing Genetic Contributions in N/NIH Heterogeneous Stock Rats

Links & Resources

Rat Genomic Resources and Tools

• RatGTEx portal
• Ratlas snRNA-seq datasets
• PhenoGen Informatics
• Rat genome browser at UCSC mRatBN7.2/rn7
• Rat Genome Database (RGD)
• Rat Genome Project (RGP)
• The Hybrid Rat Diversity Panel (HRDP)

Databases and Addiction Resources

• Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats Database (C-GORD)
• Preclinical Addiction Research Consortium (PARC)
• Omics Portal for Addiction Research (OPAR)
• ZSTAT: Genome-Wide Transcriptional Network Architecture of Drug Use Disorders
• Addiction Biobanks (alcohol, cocaine, and oxycodone)

Genomic and Model Organism Resources

• Rat Resource & Research Center (RRRC) Rat Models
• The Optogenetics and Transgenic Technology Core at NIDA
• GeneNetwork2, a framework for web-based genetics
• Alliance of Genome Resources
• Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI)
• Rat models of human diseases and related phenotypes: a systematic inventory of the causative genes
• Mouse Phenome Database
• GeneWeaver
• GenomeMUSter

Educational Resources

• Cellular Biology of Addiction Course by the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting and Courses program
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National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Upcoming Events

CTC 2025 - Barcelona

October 21-24, 2025

Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
Barcelona, Spain

The meeting will cover quantitative approaches to rodent genetics (other model organisms also welcome), omics and disease models.

11th Annual HS Rats Retreat

November 20, 2025

UC San Diego
La Jolla, California

Get ready for Ratstock—the 11th Annual HS Rats Retreat for the Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats

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