Author: lbeen

Congratulations to our graduating seniors, Abiola Irvine and Maeve Gaffney! Although they spent the last part of their senior year working remotely because of Covid-19, they still completed outstanding theses and showed tremendous resilience in the face of difficult circumstances.

 

Check out our new publication, “Glutamate afferents from the medial prefrontal cortex mediate nucleus accumbens activation by female sexual behavior,” out now in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience! Congratulations to student author Rose Glass (Been Lab Alum ’17, now pursuing PhD in Neuroscience at University of North Carolina) for her outstanding contributions! Read it here!

Laura Been and Robert Meisel have published a chapter, “Dopamine,” in the Encyclopedia of Sexuality and Gender (Amy Lykins, Ed, Springer). Read it here!

Congratulations to the 8 students to completed their senior theses in the Been Lab this year!

Congratulations to Allie Gibbons and Natalie Pisch who were both honored at the Haverford College Ambler Award Dinner. This event celebrates the senior student athletes with the 15 highest GPAs in the entire college. The Been Lab was well represented! Excellent job, Allie and Natalie!!

New work out of the Been lab has been published in Behavioral Neuroscience! This paper is the culmination of senior theses by Been Lab alums, Luis Acaba, David Sidibe, Jack Thygesen, and Harry Van der Kloot. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work!!

READ “Sex experience increases delta FosB in male and female hamsters, but facilitates sex behavior only in females” here!

 

A new review from the Been Lab, “Towards a Neurobiology of Female Aggression,” has been published in Neuropharmacology. Excellent contributions by student author Allie Gibbons. Thanks for your hard work, Allie! Read it here!

Congratulations to the 5 Been Lab members who presented their research at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego, California.

From left to right: Dylan Gearinger (’19), Allie Gibbons (’19), Hannah Wild (’19), Achint Singh (’19), and Kagan Harris (’21)

From Left to Right:  Katie Beach, Will Foster, Liz Heaton, (Professor Been), Lauren Benedetto, Taylor Levine, Paige Carson (not pictured), Shantal Taveras (not pictured).

Congratulations to Harry Van der Kloot (Been Lab ’16)! Harry was accepted to to the Louis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Well done, Harry!