September, 2019
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Mauricio Suarez lands a spot on the CRIA T32!
Congratulations to Mauricio for getting on this prestigious training grant.
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August, 2019
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Congratulations to Ken Wakabayashi on starting an Assistant Professor position at UNL! Looking forward to all of the good science to come. |
June, 2019 |
Bass lab outing to Niagara Falls!
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April, 2019 |
Mauricio Saurez and Connor Martin presenting their posters at the Student Research in Addiction Sciences Open House 2019.
This annual open house is a great opportunity to meet the trainees in the addiction research community at UB and to learn more about the programs. |
April, 2019
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Congratulations to Ajay Baindur for winning a UB award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creativity!
Ajay's work has been funded by the University Honors College Research and Creativity Fund and continues to answer fundamental questions of how this unique neural system contributes to feeding and aberrant behaviors associated with food and drug addiction. Check out the fantastic work by Ajay and other undergraduates at UB! |
March, 2019 |
Martin Leigh is awarded Top Poster Presentation at BBC 2019!
Congratulations to Martin Leigh for receiving the Top Poster Presentation award at BBC 2019 for his poster "MAGL inhibition in the ventral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens enhances responding to reward predictive cues"! Martin, a second year MS student, won this award competing against PhD students and post-docs! 
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March, 2019 |
Justin McGraw and Martin Leigh recieve travel awards to BBC 2019
The awards covered all expenses to attend the BBC conference in San Antonio, where Justin presented his latest data on endocannabinoid regulation on hedonic and homeostatic feeding, while Martin presented his work with MAGL inhibition in the VTA and nucleus accumbens and it's effects on responding to reward-predictive cues. |
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Congratulations to Ajay Baindur for matriculation to UB School of Medicine!
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June, 2018 |
The Bass Lab is pleased to welcome Postdocs Mauricio Suarez and Justin McGraw to our team!
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June, 2018 |
Congratulations Ken Wakabayashi for winning a poster award at the annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium!
Ken presented our latest findings on VTA GABA neuronal activation on reward motivated behaviors. Hopefully you will see the paper out soon! |
May, 2018 |
Congratulations Andrea Shield for the successful defense of her thesis!
Andrea presented her findings on how chemogenetic activation of VTA GABA neurons influences ethanol self-administration, extinction, and temporal processing. Looking forward to see how she continues to grow as a scientist. She’s moving back to Florida soon, so if you are looking for technician or PhD student you should call before she gets scooped up! |
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Congratulations to James Lee for matriculation to UB School of Medicine!
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May, 2018 |
The lab’s first preprint! GLP-1 agonist Exendin-4 disrupts responding to reward predictive incentive cues in rats.
In this paper we demonstrate that EX4 disrupts responding to incentive cues while motivation for the cue appears to be intact. There is also an interesting interaction between dose and timing of the effects. The nature of the behavioral disruption appears to be dose dependent. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/07/315705 |
May, 2018 |
Our first VTA GABA paper is out in NPP!
In this paper we demonstrate clearly that activation of VTA GABA disrupts responding to reward predictive incentive cues. |
May, 2018 |
Caroline Bass wins a childcare grant to the semi-annual FENS meeting in Berlin!
This innovative grant was developed to support the FENS 2018 attendance of ambitious young scientists with children. The FENS-Kavli Network will provided 29 grants to be spent flexibly on extra childcare at home, travel of kids and carer to FENS or travel of a carer to your home for childcare during the FENS Forum 2018. All attendees with dependent children were eligible. |
March, 2018 |
Malte Feja and Martin Leigh win travel awards to BBC 2018
The awards covered all expenses to attend the BBC conference in San Antonio, where Malte presented his latest data on mesoaccumbal GABA projections in reward processing, while Martin presented his work with monacyl glycerol lipase inhibitors. |
January, 2018 |
Caroline Bass is awarded a Whitehall Foundation Research Grant!
Funds will be used to map mesoaccumbal GABA projections and their role in reward learning. |
January, 2018 |
Our paper on D2 receptor knockdown from the VTA on delay discounting is published in Behavioral Brain Research
In this paper we show that experimentally decreasing the D2 receptor from the VTA shifts the delay discounting curve, indicating the rats are more impulsive. |
2017 |
Andrea and Ajay win research awards!
Andrea's application to work on translating RNA affinity purification (TRAP) was funded by the Mark Diamond Fund. Ajay was also funded to examine how the endocannabinoid system influences processing of incentive cues. |
June, 2016 |
Daniel wins an undergraduate research excellence award at UB!
Daniel received the UB Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creativity for the school of medicine. The award recognizes outstanding contributions that achieve superiority in presentation, content and scope. |
October, 2014 |
Second ‘Sleep Node’ in the Brain Discovered
University at Buffalo researchers have helped discover a sleep-promoting circuit in the brainstem, revealing how we fall into deep sleep — findings that may lead to new therapies for sleep disorders. This is the second sleep node discovered in the brain. |
October, 2013 |
Animal Study Prevents Binge Drinking by Stimulating Neurons
Our paper showing that tonic dopamine release blocks alcohol binge drinking, likely by disrupting environmental ethanol associated cues. |
