Our laboratory employs a multidisciplinary approach to dissect the neural circuitry regulating feeding, motivation, and emotion. Current techniques include:

- mouse feeding behavior

-mouse assays of motivation and emotion

-optogenetics

-in vivo calcium imaging

-chemogenetics

-mouse molecular genetics

-viral mediated neural circuit mapping

-light sheet imaging of mouse brains

-single nucleus RNA sequencing 

-fluorescent in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry

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