Oksana Polesskaya

The Cellular Biology of Addiction Course that is organized by the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting and Courses program will take place in Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK,  July 31 – August 7, 2016. Application Deadline: April 30, 2016 Instructors: David Belin, Antonello Bonci, Christopher Evans, Brigitte Kieffer Speakers: Benjamin Boutrel, Jeff Dalley, Karen Ersche, … Read more…

The article, “Premature responding is associated with approach to a food cue in male and female heterogeneous stock rats”, was accepted for publication in Psychopharmacology. Authors include Christopher King, Abraham Palmer, Leah Solberg Woods, Larry Hawk, Jerry Richards, and Paul Meyer. This study is part of Research Project 3 (“Association between behavioral regulation and cocaine … Read more…

Pilot Studies in HS Outbred Rats Supporting Drug Abuse Research Center of Excellence The NIDA center for GWAS in outbred rats (P50DA037844) focuses on quantitative genetic studies of a range of psychologically complex drug abuse-related phenotypes in outbred rats. In order to broaden the impact of this center and to promote rat genetics studies we … Read more…

4th Brain Awareness Day gathered 100+ high school students, teachers and other guests. Brain Awareness Day was supported in part by NIDA Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats. Oksana Polesskaya, PhD., Scientific Coordinator, presented overview of Center’s research. Nicholas Grahame, Ph.D., Eva E. Redei, Ph.D., and Erik Jorgensen, Ph.D. delivered lectures on topics related to brain … Read more…

Twenty three Center members and 10 Advisory Board members came to Chicago to hear reports and discuss progress and future  directions. Visit meeting page for details.