Lab news
News releases help put discoveries from the lab into the big picture, making our science more accessible to a broader audience.
-Audrey Chrisman and Brian did the Neuropsychopharmacology Brainpod podcast to talk about Audrey's paper on the effects of oxytocin neurons on social behavior with Chiho Sugimoto, Hanna Butler-Struben and AJ Robison.
-Sinéad Archdeacon wins the Alumni to Aggie Student Research award from the College of Biological Sciences.
-Sophia Wright wins a Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship and Outstanding Senior Award from the College of Biological Sciences
-Zac Oakland is featured in an article from the L&S Dean's Office.
-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 the 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