Several of our lab members attended the 2024 SfN last weekend in Chicago. PhD students Daniel Hereford and Eric Le both presented posters at the conference and our newest PhD student, Luisa Zavala, attended the conference for the first time.
Dr. Jonathan Fadok also got the opportunity to host a minisymposium. The symposium was titled Control of Adaptive Behavior by Neuronal Circuits in the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala at which Dr. Fadok and his co-chair Melissa Herman, PhD from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill discussed how "The nervous system processes a vast array of complex stimuli to generate behavior necessary for survival. The central nucleus of the amygdala is a striatal brain region that integrates external and internal inputs to control a diverse array of adaptive behaviors. This minisymposium cover[ed] recent progress in understanding how the central amygdala controls positive and negative valence behavior through local and distributed circuits."