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Enjoyed talking to Dana Smith for her article! elemental.medium.com/your-brain-on-…

Check out VCU Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology professor @DamajLab's feature in this article about how #Nicotine affects the brain! ow.ly/W9Va50xhX3J

$6.8M grant supports research at VCU interdisciplinary center on opioids and other addictions. ASPET member William Dewey, Ph.D., the center’s director, has led research on opioid and other addictions for more than four decades at VCU: bit.ly/2JzaiF2

Great vist and seminar by Dr. Erin Calipari @TheErinCalipari. Thanks for making the trip to Richmond!

VCU people @claredstar, @NegusLab at the acute pain NIH workshop. Interesting conference! Learning a lot from veterinarians! paw2019.com

The Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo, SUNY invites applications for two Assistant Professor (tenure-track) positions in the Learning... ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/21525…

Our first paper on alcohol and chronic pain models is out! ”Pharmacological mechanisms of alcohol analgesic-like properties in mouse models of acute and chronic pain” Excited about this very much! Great collaboration with @mfmiles and @jen5rva. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Massey Cancer Center Seeks Grant Applicants massey.vcu.edu/research/fundi… @VCUMassey @VCUPharmacy @VCUENGR @VCUChemistry

The Graduate School will host the 5th Annual #VCU 3MT Competition on October 18th! Participants will have 3-minutes to present their research to a lay audience using 1 slide. Monetary awards will go to the final top 3. For more details, please visit ow.ly/bsS450vWkK2

A new paper from our lab with the talented graduate student @LoisAkinola and in collaboration with @Vivekdna. More to come! C57BL/6 Substrain Differences in Pharmacological Effects after Acute and Repeated Nicotine Administration mdpi.com/2076-3425/9/10…

Please see Faculty Position in Respiratory and Pulmonary Bioengineering at the University of Iowa BME @IowaBME jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/7…

@VCUGSA Fall Picnics begin today! Meet the GSA Executive Board while mingling with your fellow grad students. Enjoy free food and games from 6-8pm at the Park Plaza on the Monroe Park campus. GSA will be at the Larrick Center Compass on the MCV campus tomorrow!

Way to go Julie @VCUresearch @ToxVcu

The lectures bring in leading external forensic scientists, highlighting forensic science research being conducted at VCU and elsewhere. 🔬 news.vcu.edu/article/Forens…

Glad to have our transcriptome co-analysis of Rhesus and mouse ethanol consumption published. Beautiful work by Dr. Jim Bogenpohl and super collaboration with Drs. Grant, Lopez and Becker. Ethanol changes in myelin networks in monkey PFC were amazing! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31456662

Thankful to Eliot Gardner for including us in this interesting paper on Δ8‐Tetrahydrocannabivarin, a cannabis constituent, and its effects in models of nicotine dependence. bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Our recently published chapter on The Rise and Fall of Kappa-Opioid Receptors in Drug Abuse Research #citeas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

How did the opioid crisis start—and what are scientists and public health officials doing to address it? NIDA has an excellent summary of the opioid health epidemic. drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/op…

What’s in that #CBD? In this story from @nytimes, @vcu forensic toxicologist @MichelleRPeace has some worrisome answers. nytimes.com/2019/08/13/bus…