Press & Lab News

Princess Felix, a Neuroscience Graduate Student in the lab, was selected as a 2024 NIDA Diversity Scholars Travel Awardee to attend the annual Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference in Chicago, IL, in October.

Dr. Flagel and Princess Felix were selected as recipients of the inaugural PACE Fellowship from the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan. The PACE Fellowship recognizes accomplished student-faculty pairs with demonstrated commitment to program climate and student success.

Our most recent publication - “The effect of corticosterone on the acquisition of Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior in rats is dependent on sex and vendor” - is now out in Hormones and Behavior. Read it here.

Brianna Ramos, a Neuroscience Graduate Student in the lab (Co-Mentored by Drs. Flagel and Kennedy), won a Poster Award at the Karle Symposium hosted by the University of Michigan Department of Chemistry and sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, and PPG.

The Flagel Lab was awarded an R34 (NS132808) BRAIN Initiative grant that will allow us to establish calcium imaging and identify the neural signature of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus that underlies individual differences in cue-motivated behavior.

Brianna Ramos, a Neuroscience Graduate Student in the lab (Co-Mentored by Drs. Flagel and Kennedy), received a Diversity Supplement from NIDA (R01 DA054094-03S1) to support her dissertation research which aims to uncover the neurochemical signature of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT).