Apply now for the Alcohol & the Nervous System GRS and GRC!
The GRS kicks off the GRC, giving early-career scientists the platform to launch into a week of cutting-edge science. Submit your abstracts to both by Oct 10th for talk consideration! #alcoholGRC2026#alcoholGRS2026
We are looking forward to the 2026 #Alcohol GRC in Ventura, CA! The main meeting starts Feb 22, 2026 (GRS Feb 21-22). For both, we will be selecting additional invited talks from the submitted abstracts. For consideration, submit your abstract by Oct 10! #alcoholGRC2026
Last day to update those "TBDs"! Abstracts due today for talk consideration at the Alcohol & the Nervous System GRS and GRC! #alcoholGRC2026#alcoholGRS2026
Apply now for the Alcohol & the Nervous System GRS and GRC!
The GRS kicks off the GRC, giving early-career scientists the platform to launch into a week of cutting-edge science. Submit your abstracts to both by Oct 10th for talk consideration! #alcoholGRC2026#alcoholGRS2026
We are looking forward to the 2026 #Alcohol GRC in Ventura, CA! The main meeting starts Feb 22, 2026 (GRS Feb 21-22). For both, we will be selecting additional invited talks from the submitted abstracts. For consideration, submit your abstract by Oct 10! #alcoholGRC2026
Follow these links to apply to present and join the alcohol neuroscience research community!
GRS (Trainee pre-meeting, Feb 21-22, 2026): tinyurl.com/35zf3wte
GRC (Main meeting immediately following, Feb 22-27, 2026): tinyurl.com/44z957ve
Join us for the inaugural New England Addiction Neuroscience Conference - August 15, 2025 in Providence, RI! Featuring faculty talks, trainee data blitz (with prizes!), and small-group networking.
Register by 8/11, or 8/1 for trainee talk consideration!
tinyurl.com/yc4d7fc6
Check out the clever adaptation of LIQ HD for use with rats! The sipper blockers are particularly useful for intermittent access paradigms. Great work by Shikun and the @glover_lab, loved seeing it in person recently at @RSAposts!
Excited to share LIQ HDR - a home cage capacitive lickometer system for rats - equipped with custom 3D prints to capture lick microstructure in two-bottle choice drinking experiments. Now available on bioRxiv as part of a home cage drinking methods paper.
shorturl.at/KZsLu
Social isolation, using the original LIQ HD system, amplified fluid intake and ethanol preference in both sexes, accompanied by sex- and fluid-dependent changes in bout microstructure.
We sincerely hope that LIQ PARTI will be a useful tool for labs measuring drinking behavior! We are excited to see the creative ways this system can be applied and expanded upon. Check out our GitHub for more build details. github.com/nickpetersen93/LI…
NEW MANUSCRIPT FROM THE WINDER LAB! Curious about how group vs individual housing influences mouse home cage drinking behavior? Introducing LIQ PARTI (Lick Instance Quantifier with Poly-Animal RFID Tracking Integration)! #biorxivbiorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
We used LIQ PARTI to investigate the influence of sex and housing on ethanol consumption in C57Bl/6J mice. Group-housed females exhibited higher ethanol preference than males, while continuous monitoring revealed a unique undulating pattern of ethanol preference in males.
Our new device accurately tracks the drinking behavior of specific mice by integrating capacitive-based sensors with RFID tracking technology, allowing for the identification of an individual’s drinking behavior while mice are group-housed.
Based on our previously developed single-housed LIQ HD system, LIQ PARTI is an Arduino-based, open-source tool designed to examine home cage continuous access two-bottle choice drinking behavior in a group-housed setting. #arduino
We are excited to announce a newly funded @NIAAAnews P60. Housed @VanderbiltU and led by @TheErinCalipari@dgordonwinder @JenniBlackford, it will be focused on defining the neural basis of alcohol use disorder. in human and animal models.
Read more here: rb.gy/xyynnq
Join us Thursday, March 7 at 1:00pm in 202 LH or Zoom for @Nicktweetersen's Dissertation Defense! He will present "Mechanisms underlying control of wake-promoting dopamine neurons by norepinephrine and alcohol" completed Dr. @dgordonwinder's lab in the Neuroscience Grad Program.
Come check out my and @DoyleMarieA‘s poster (#12) today at the #AlcoholGRC2024!! “LIQ Systems: A suite of open-source Lick Instance Quantifier devices for recording two-bottle choice drinking behavior “