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Joined April 2021
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Off to a new adventure in Chicagoland! I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted an assistant professor position at @NIUlive ! The Ortiz Neuroscience Lab will be starting this fall! I am forever grateful for all of the people that have helped guide me! TEAM PRAIRIE VOLE!
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Who runs the world? VOLES
As the world warms, scientists are eager to know whether the world’s tundra will continue to pull carbon from the atmosphere. A crucial part of that equation: three-ounce voles. @brdemuth reports: theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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28 Feb 2023
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… L. reuteri administration alters the gut-brain-behavior axis in a sex-dependent manner in socially monogamous prairie voles "Females, but not males, treated with live L. reuteri displayed lower levels of social affiliation"

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17 Jan 2023
Save the date REMINDER! Vole Meeting 2023 Aug 2 - 5, Boulder, CO Hosted at University of Colorado Boulder from August 2 - 5. This year, we anticipate being able to provide travel awards and delivering workshops on August 2-3 prior to the full meeting.
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17 Nov 2022
Check your email, vole researchers! The next Vole Meeting has been scheduled! 🥳
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Heeey prairie vole researchers @VoleBase! Our latest, led by @jeannempowell, examines adult aging and shows that social behavior is plastic not only throughout early development, but also well into adulthood. journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
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Prairie voles would never have done this
18 Oct 2022
We've been thinking that the Omicron variant evolved from an immunocompromised individual with accelerated in vivo mutations. A new report @PNASNews raises the potential that it emanated from mice -> humans pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pn…
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19 Sep 2022
Check out the cover of JCN -that’s a vole brain! “Oxytocin receptors are widely distributed in the prairie vole brain” by Kiyoshi Inoue @lyoun03 and colleagues. doi.org/10.1002/cne.25382
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24 Jul 2022
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Very excited to share the work of Kristen Berendzen and Ruchira Sharma and our collaborators in the @BalesLab and @Shah_Laboratory Strikingly, we find the oxytocin receptor is NOT required for partner preference or parenting behaviors in prairie voles.
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As I put my poster together for the @SBNTweets conference, I made some illustrations of prairie voles at four days old, fifteen days old, and adult voles. Feel free to use them :) I have .svg and .ai for most of them as well!
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25 Apr 2022
"Helping behavior in prairie voles: A model of empathy and the importance of oxytocin" Oxytocin receptor knockout voles: are they jerks? sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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28 Mar 2022
Developmental exposure to intranasal vasopressin impacts adult prairie vole spatial memory By @BioBookworm and @OphirLab sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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"Effects of a D2 receptor antagonist on repeated pair bond formation in the male prairie vole" Males voles prefer recent partner over previous. 🚫D2 receptor blocks preference for 2nd partner after loss of 1st but does not preserve preference for 1st. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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"Social isolation and oxytocin antagonism increase emotion-related behaviors and heart rate in female prairie voles" by @tangor3d sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Petition to replace Punxsutawney Phil with Prairie Phil & Philipa
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25 Jan 2022
Multi-level effects driving cognitive and behavioral variability among prairie voles: Insights into reproductive decision-making from biological levels of organization by @OphirLab karger.com/Article/PDF/52210…

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sciencedirect.com/science/ar… "Functional connectivity differences between two culturally distinct prairie vole populations: insights into the prosocial network" by @ricky_ortiz and colleagues

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