Lab news
News releases help put discoveries from the lab into the big picture that is more accessible to people with less training in science.
Rani Purewal and Lia Harvey launch the lab's TikTok account with first post on This is What a Scientist Looks Like.
Brian Trainor makes video on the how federal funding for mental health research is supporting work for new treatments for mental illness and benefits the economy. More videos from other faculty at the UC Davis Labs to Lives Project.
Rani Purewal interviewed on KCRA Sacramento at the 2025 Stand Up for Science march
Alexandra Serna Godoy wins 2024 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Stories from College of Biological Sciences and from Letters and Science.
The lab's new collaborative NIH grant with Jessica Tollkuhn and AJ Robison is featured in article about research funding at UC Davis.
Write up for Emily Wright's 2023 publication in PNAS on effects of pubertal androgens on stress sensitivity
Write up for Alexia Williams's 2022 publication in Biological Psychiatry on RGS-2 and depression-related behaviors
Podcast for Hanna Butler-Struben's review in Neuropsychopharmacology on the impact of hidden variables in behavioral neuroscience experiments
Write up for Natalia Duque-Wilckens's 2020 publication in PNAS on oxytocin neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis
Write up for Alexia Williams's 2020 publication in Neuropsychopharmacology on oxytocin in the nucleus accumbens
Write up for Natalia Duque-Wilckens's 2018 publication in Biological Psychiatry on oxytocin receptors in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis
Write up for Michael Steinman's 2016 publication in Biological Psychiatry on effects of stress on oxytocin neurons in males and females