Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Drexel University College of Medicine
Katie Bryant's paper featured in eNeuro
May 8, 2023
Katie's new paper, "A history of low-dose ethanol shifts the role of ventral hippocampus during reward seeking in male mice" was selected as a featured article in eNeuro!
Katie Bryant selected as an Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award Finalist!
June 17, 2023
Congratulations and good luck to Katie!
Katie Bryant earns the Bondi Award!
May 12, 2023
Congratulations to Katie for receiving the Amedeo Bondi, PhD Endowed Graduate Award. This award is given to a graduating PhD student for excellence in research performance during their training experience.
Katie Bryant Defends her Dissertation!
April 17, 2023
Congratulations to Katie for successfully defending her PhD thesis! Katie is the first PhD graduate from the Barker lab, and has set a high bar for all who follow in her foot steps. We can't wait to see the great things she will achieve!
The Barker lab at PCSfN
March 13, 2023
Congratulations are in order to both Katie and Christine! Katie's award winning flash talk was excellent, and Christine took first place for her poster in the technician category at the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.
Christina Wins 2nd Place at Discovery Day
October 28, 2022
Congratulations to Christina for winning second place in the Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster category at the 2022 Discovery Day meeting.
Mark Namba's diversity supplement is funded!
October 28, 2022
Congratulations to Mark on recieving a diversity supplemt from NIDA. This funding will support Mark's innovative work investigating neurobehavioral mechanisms in preclinical models of comorbid HIV and substance use disorder.
Sam Stine defends her master's thesis!
May 10, 2022
Congratulations to Sam for successfully defending her master's thesis investigating binge-like eating following chronic ethanol exposure in female mice.
ASPET Travel Awards
April 4, 2022
Congratulations to Christina and Qiaowei for receiving travel awards from ASPET!
Katie Bryant's F31 is funded!
May 27, 2021
Katie's funded F31 will support her work investigating the role of ventral hippocampus circuits in mediating the effects of low-dose ethanol on reward learning and motivation.
Congratulations to Qiaowei for her successful defense!
June 11, 2019
Qiaowei Xie successfully defended her Master's in Drug Discovery and Development today! Her thesis work on sex differences in compulsive-like ethanol seeking was recently published at ACER - learn more here.
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Qiaowei will start her PhD in Pharmacology and Physiology this fall, and we're sure many great things are yet to come!
NIDA A-START Award Funded!
May 10, 2019
We're very excited to have received a NOA for our NIDA A-START Award investigating aberrant corticostriatal circuit function in a mouse model of HIV infection. This research, in collaboration with the Gaskill Lab, will assess infection-induced alterations in compulsive-like drug seeking and underlying neurobiological substrates.
Qiaowei's research recognized at Drexel's Sex and Gender Research Forum
March 13, 2019
Congratulations to Qiaowei for receiving a poster award at the Drexel Sex and Gender Research Forum. Her research identifies sex-specific effects of chronic ethanol exposure on reward seeking despite aversive experiences.
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Check out our new work on vHipp projections in the maintenance of habitual behavior
January 07, 2019
Welcome to the lab, Fangyi!
November 28, 2018
Fangyi Huang is completing her Master's in Drug Discover & Development Program as part of an undergraduate-graduate cooperation between Drexel University and China Pharmaceutical University.