THE LOBO LAB
Laboratory of Molecular Neurocircuitry and Motivation
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Welcome to the Lobo Lab
The Lobo Lab researches the neurobiological mechanisms that mediate maladaptive behaviors including disrupted motivational processes and repetitive behavior. Our lab employs a multidisciplinary approach using cell subtype transcriptome profiling, genome and epigenome targeting, intersectional tools to manipulate and assess neuronal activity, morphological analyses, and behavior to study the neural circuits that mediate neuropsychiatric disease-related phenotypes. 
Location:
University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology Baltimore, MD 
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Lobo Lab Latest News
November 2021 Mary Kay receives Society for Neuroscience Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award. October 2021 Congratulations to Jimmy, Daniela and Rianne for receiving the SFN Trainee Professional Development Awards! Congratulations to Cali for receiving the Postdoctoral Fellow Excellence in Service Award. Congratulations to Mary Kay for receiving The Dr. Mark E. Shirtliff PhD Student Mentor Award and the Teacher of the Year Award. August 2021 Congrats Ramesh and the virus vector core on your new space! The lab welcomes Research Associate Sergio Dominguez-Lopez! July 2021 Congratulation to Meg Fox who will be starting her lab and joining the faculty of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Penn State Hershey in the Fall!! Congratulations to Daniela Franco for receiving the ¡Lánzate!/Take Off! Travel Award from Southwest Airlines and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). The lab welcomes Research Associate- Ben Siemsen, PIN rotation student- Jewel White, and high school student researcher- Pragya Kumar! Congratulations to Rianne on her Neuron Preview- "DRD3-dependent plasticity within the VP drives sub circuit activity critical for cocaine seeking." June 2021 Congratulation to Victoria Rhodes on graduating from with her Bachelors in Biological Sciences at UMBC. Victoria will be working with us full time now as a Research Assistant! The lab welcomes PIN rotation student, Gautam Kumar and undergraduate lab assistant, Sohil Chavan! Congratulations to former lab member, Hyungwoo Nam, who will be a Technical Application Scientist at Nanostring! May 2021 Congratulations to Cali on her Biological Psychiatry commentary: "The individualized powerhouse: Mitofusin-2 regulates nucleus accumbent mitochondrial influence on individual differences in trait anxiety." The lab welcomes MiNDs ENDURE student, Rebeca Fuquen! April 2021 The lab welcomes Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Masters rotation student Annie Brong, high school student Shruthi Ganesh, and UM Scholar student Christina Barrett! March 2021 Congratulations to Cali on her book chapter, "Depression and substance use disorders: Clinical comorbidity and share neurobiology" in International Review of Neurobiology - Neurobiology of Addiction and Co-morbid Disorders. February 2021 Mary Kay receives the Dean's Faculty Award for Diversity and Inclusion. January 2021 The lab welcomes Research Assistant Symphanie Key, PIN rotation student Catherine Haga, and high school student researcher Maia Cheer! December 2020 Goodbye to Research Associate Michel Engeln. We wish him good luck as he begins his permanent researcher position at CNRS at the University of Bordeaux! November 2020 The lab welcomes new Postdoctoral Fellows Rianne Campbell and Jimmy Olusakin! Goodbye and good luck to Postdoc Hyungwoo Nam who is leaving the lab. September 2020 The lab receives a innovation R21 entitled "Epigenome editing in opioid action." August 2020 The lab receives a U01 entitled"Heroin-Induced genomic regulation of Ventral Pallidum neuron subtypes" with MPIs, Seth Ament (UMSOM) and David Dietz (U. Buffalo)! July 2020 Congratulations to Meg Fox and co-authors on her Scientific Reports paper! Mary Kay was promoted to the rank of Professor 9 years after starting the lab here at UMSOM. June 2020 Daniela Franco is a new editor for the National Hispanic Science Network newsletter, El Faro! April 2020 Congratulations to Meg Fox for her K99/R00 and promotion to Assistant Professor! Mary Kay is named co-Director of the new Center for Substance Use in Pregnancy. The labs first renewal (NIMH R01) is funded. March 2020 We are out of the lab and working from home. Everyone is safe and healthy. Wishing our friends and colleagues safety during this time. Cali Calarco is an award recipient for the NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP)! Welcome back to the lab Daniela Franco, PIN student, who is officially joining the lab for her PhD studies! The lab welcomes volunteer researcher, Darren Miller! January 2020 The lab welcomes PIN rotation student, Cassie Stapf! November 2019 Congratulations to Michel and co-authors on our new Biological Psychiatry paper! October 2019 The lab welcomes undergraduate students, Pali Keppetipola and Maya Harris! September 2019 The lab receives a NIDA R21 to study cell subtype transcriptomes in heroin self administration with our collaborators, the Dietz lab, and SUNY Buffalo! June 2019 The lab welcomes our many summer students: PRISM medical students- Saskia Van Terheyden and Hyunjae Kim, MSTP student- Mitchell Moyer, and PIN rotation students- Antonio Figueiredo and Daniela Franco, and Lab Assistant (former High School Volunteer) Ishan Patel! May 2019 Congratulation to Nam and co-authors on our Neuropsychopharmacology paper! The lab welcomes Lab Assistants, Victoria Rhodes and Katherine Duarte! February 2019 Congratulations to Cali who was awarded a T32 training grant slot! Congratulations to Chase and co-authors on our new Biological Psychiatry paper! The lab receives a NIDA R01 on "Ventral pallidum molecular mediators in cocaine addiction." The lab welcomes UM College Park MPH student volunteer, Heather Brewer-Scotti! October 2018 Congratulations to Meg and Michel for receiving the GPILS/OPS Postdoctoral Scholar and Postdoctoral Service awards! September 2018 Eric Choi, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology PhD Student, joins the lab! The lab welcomes visiting PhD student, Marco Pagliusi from State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil! The lab receives a US-Israel BSF award with collaborator Yonatan Kupchik at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. August 2018 The lab welcomes volunteer and recent UMBC graduate, Qulsum Mirza, and visiting PhD student, Gessynger Morais-Silva from Dr. Marcelo Tadeu Marin's lab at São Paulo State University-UNESP/Brazil! July 2018 The lab welcomes Biochemistry and Molecular Biology rotation student Eric Choi! June 2018 The lab welcomes PhD Student Israel Garcia who is visiting from Dr. Sergio Iniguez's lab at University of Texas El Paso! Congratulations to Michel winner of the J. Tyson Tildon award for outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow! May 2018 The lab welcomes summer PRISM medical students Torrance Wang and Michael Hong, UM Scholar student Shavin Thomas, and PIN rotation student Andreas Wulff! Goodbye and good luck to Brianna Evans who is leaving to start her MD/PhD at Penn State University! Congratulations to co-first authors Michel and Meg who published a Preview in Neuron. March 2018 The lab receives a NIDA CEBRA grant! February 2018 Congratulations to Meg for receiving a NIMH NRSA! January 2018 The lab welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow Shannon Cole and Program in Neuroscience rotation students Houman Qadir and Miriam Menken! December 2017 Congratulations to co-first authors, Ramesh and Michel, on our Neuron publication, "Drp1 Mitochondrial Fission in D1 Neurons Mediates Behavioral and Cellular Plasticity during Early Cocaine Abstinence." Check it out here. September 2017 Congratulations to Chase and co-authors on our Molecular Psychiatry publication. July 2017 Our Journal of Neuroscience study is featured in the July 30, 2017 edition of the Baltimore Sun. Link Our new JN study is featured in a Huffington Post article! Link Congratulations to Ramesh and co-authors on our Journal of Neuroscience publication. June 2017 The Lab welcomes new Lab Assistants Makeda Turner (UMBC undergraduate) and Paul Henderson (Johns Hopkins undergraduate)! May 2017 The lab welcomes PRISM UMSOM medical students, Maddie McGlincy and Chris Schiefer, and UM Scholar undergraduate students, Emily Larkin and Rae Herman! January 2017 MKL receives a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) form the Obama administration! The lab welcomes PIN rotation students Utsav Gyawali and Jack Hussey! November 2016 The lab welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow Meg Fox! October 2016 Congratulations to Ramesh on his BPS paper acceptance. Congratulations to Amanda Chow for her poster win in the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science category at UMD College Park Bioscience Day for her summer work in our lab! Chase leaves the lab to start his Postdoc in the Bonci Lab at NIDA IRP. Good luck Chase! September 2016 MKL receives an IMHRO/ Janssen Rising Star Translational Research Award. August 2016 Chase's successfully defends his PhD! Congratulations Dr. Francis! The Lab receives an NSF award with collaborator Fow-Sen Choa at UMBC. The lab receives a US-Israel BSF award with collaborator Yonatan Kupchik at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. July 2016 Shweta leaves the lab for medical school. Good luck Shweta! June 2016 The lab welcomes new research assistant Brianna Evans! Chase's 2015 BPS paper receives an honorable mention as a finalist for the Sizkind-Somerfeld Research Award. The lab welcomes summer UM Scholar students Julia Bazzini, Amanda Chow, and Alison Gaynor! May 2016 The lab welcomes Gettysburg College undergraduate Miranda Fennel! February 2016 The lab welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow, Hyungwoo Nam! November 2015 Congratulations to Chase, 2015 GPILS Otani Memorial Award winner!! The lab welcomes Johns Hopkins undergraduates Alex Serafini, Shams Haider, and Jessica Kang and UM College Park undergraduate Reethika Maddineni. August 2015 Congratulations to Chase for receiving an SFN travel award! Congratulations to Ramesh on receiving a 2015 NARSAD Young Investigator Award! July 2015 The lab welcomes Research Assistant, Shweta Das. The lab welcomes PIN rotation student Kara Cover. June 2015 Congratulations to Ramesh and Michel for winning the Postdoc poster prizes at the Program in Neuroscience retreat. The Lab welcomes CSUSB Masters student Lace Riggs. May 2015 The Lab welcomes Prism Scholar student Jeremy Winer and UM Scholar students Ashley La and Hyunjae Kim. April 2015 The Lab receives an NIMH R01! March 2015 The Lobo Lab is currently accepting applications for Postdoc positions. Please see the attached flyer. AD LINK January 2015 Congratulations to Chase for runner up poster prize at the Winter Conference on Brain Research in Montana! The lab welcomes PIN rotation student Alex Klausing! December 2014 Congratulations to Ramesh and Chase for second prize Postdoc and Graduate Student posters at the Baltimore SFN Chapter meeting at Johns Hopkins! September 2014 Congratulations to Chase for successfully passing his thesis proposal! MKL awarded her first NIH (NIDA) R01. July 2014 Congratulations to Chase on his paper acceptance to Biological Pyschiatry! Congratulations to Ramesh on the birth of his daughter! June 2014 The Lab welcomes UM Scholar summer student Ashley La! April 2014 The Lab welcomes new Postdoctoral Fellow, Michel Engeln! MKL receives a Tourette Syndrome Association grant. |
