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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)

 Addiction Biobanks:
  • Alcohol
  • Cocaine
  • Oxycodone
• Behavioral & Substance Use
 Disorder Portal (RGD)

• Omics Portal for Addiction Research  (OPAR)
• ZSTAT: Genome-Wide
 Transcriptional Network Architecture
 of Drug Use Disorders


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"
 (table)

• Mouse Phenome Database
• GeneWeaver
• GenomeMUSter

Educational Resources

• Cellular Biology of Addiction Course  (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory:
 Meetings and Courses Program)

• National Institute on Drug Abuse
 (NIDA)

Upcoming Events

23nd Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community

CTC 2026
Visit jax.org/CTC2026 for more info!

November 8–13, 2026
The Roux Institute
at Northeastern University
Portland, Maine

Neuroscience 2026

November 14–18, 2026
Washington Convention Center
Washington, D.C.

12th Annual HS Rats Retreat

January 14, 2027
UC San Diego + Zoom
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