Manuscript accepted in Neuropsychopharmacology

The manuscript titled “Large-Scale Behavioral Characterization of Oxycodone Self-Administration in Heterogeneous Stock Rats Reveals Initial Analgesic Effects are Associated with Addiction-Like Behaviors” was accepted for publication in Neuropsychopharmacology.

Authors: Marsida Kallupi, Giordano de Guglielmo, Lieselot Carrette, Sierra Simpson, Jenni Kononoff, Adam Kimbrough, Lauren Smith, Kokila Shankar, Alicia Avelar, Dana Conlisk, Molly Brennan, Lani Tieu, Sharona Sedighim, Brent Boomhower, Lisa Maturin, McKenzie Fannon, Angelica Martinez, Caitlin Crook, Selen Dirik, Nathan Velarde, Paul Schweitzer, Sélène Zahedi, Elizabeth Sneddon, Sonja Plasil, Alex Morgan, Dyar Othman, Benjamin Sichel, Beverly Peng*, Apurva Chitre, Oksana Polesskaya, Justin Lau, Ashley Vang, Leah Solberg Woods, Abraham Palmer, and Olivier George.

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RATTACA booth at SfN 2025!

We hope you had a chance to visit us at the RATTACA booth to support the HS rats P30 center!

SfN/Neuroscience 2025 – held at the San Diego Convention Center, November 16 – 19, 2025.

2025 Meeting of the Complex Trait Community – Rodent Genomics

The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community (CTC) was held October 21 to 24, 2025 at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain in collaboration with the Rat Genomics Community. See program details here! The conference was organized by Amelie Baud, Centre for Genomic Regulation at Barcelona Biomedical Research Park; Evan Williams, University of … Read more…

Manuscript accepted in Nature Communications

The manuscript titled “Genetic architecture and mechanisms of host-microbiome interactions from a multi-cohort analysis of outbred laboratory rats” was published in Nature Communications.

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(updated 12/18/25)