November 3, 2025
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Venue
Gonda 1357
Trainee Data Blitz: “Highlighting Addiction Research at UCLA”
“Prefrontostriatal Terminal Dynamics Underly Effort-Based Decision Making”
Alicia Kao
Graduate Student
Laboratory of Dr. Scott Wilke
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“Nucleus Accumbens Activation During Reward and Loss Anticipation is Associated with Future Substance Use”
Jalen Grayson
Graduate Student
Laboratory of Dr. Edythe London
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“Drug-Paired Cues Elicit Outcome-Specific Decision-Making Following Abstinence”
Miriam Ortega
GraduateStudent
Laboratory of Dr. Alicia Izquierdo
Department of Psychology
UCLA College of Life Sciences
“Neuroendocrine Mechanisms in the Links Between Early Life Stress, Affect, and Youth Substance Use”
Alexandra Donovan
Graduate Student
Laboratory of Dr. Edythe London
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“MRI Predictors of Adolescent Nicotine Use in the ABCD Dataset”
Michael Apostol
Graduate Student
Laboratory of Dr. Nicole Petersen
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“The Influence of Ovarian Hormones on Past-Week Alcohol Use”
Brittany Henry
Graduate Student
Laboratory of Dr. Erica Grodin
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“Loss of Noradrinergic Mu Opioid Receptor Expression Enhances Opioid Reward and Exaggerates Opioid-Induced Withdrawal”
Ikponmwosa Pat-Osagie
Graduate Student
Laboratory of Dr. Catherine Cahill
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Title TBD
Nitish Patel
Graduate Student
Laboratory of Dr. Avishek Adhikari
Department of Psychology
UCLA College of Life Sciences
In-Person Event
Gonda Research Center 1357
For more information, please contact Regina Corralez at RCorralez@mednet.ucla.edu.