Description:

Physiology assistant professor, Talia Lerner, will give a virtual presentation.

Abstract:

In this talk, I will discuss two recent R01 proposals (one submitted and one in-progress) relating to my lab’s work on dorsal striatal dopamine circuits. The first proposal focuses on using electrophysiology to test a putative circuit allowing the dorsomedial striatum to control dopamine signaling in the dorsolateral striatum, which is hypothesized to be important for regulating habit formation. The second proposal focuses on using fiber photometry and optogenetics to distinguish how different dopamine circuits control habit formation vs. compulsive reward-seeking. I welcome feedback from the community to improve the ideas put forth in these proposals.