The Division for Behavioral Pharmacology would like to recognize our young scientists who attended the ASPET Annual Meeting at EB 2021 and participated in our poster or oral competitions.  The judges were very impressed with the science and presentations this year.

Poster Competition Awards

Each year, the ASPET Student-Postdoc Poster Competition showcases and recognizes the highest quality scientific work submitted by ASPET’s young scientist members. Congratulations to the 2021 winners:

Undergraduate Students:

1st place: Sarah Mott, University of South Carolina School of Medicine
“Estradiol-Specific Neural Regulation of Social Stress Susceptibility in Female Rats.”

2nd place: Kerry Chou, University of Arizona
“The Hsp90 Isoform-Selective Inhibitor KUNG65 Enhances Opioid Anti-Nociception while Reducing Tolerance.”

Graduate and Post-baccalaureate Students:

1st place: Bryan Sears, University of Michigan
“The Role of Peripheral Opioid Receptors in the Development of Tolerance to Mu-Opioid Receptor Agonists.”

2nd place: Shawn Flynn, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
“Interactions Between Mu Opioid Receptor Agonists in Rats Discriminating Fentanyl.”

3rd place: Clare Diester, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Assessment of Monoacyglycerol Lipase Inhibition for Acute and Chronic Antinociception in a Behavioral Battery for Testing Candidate Analgesics in Mice.”

Oral Competition Awards

The division invites top scoring abstracts submitted by young scientists to present in the Division for Behavioral Pharmacology Postdoctoral Award Competition. Congratulations to the 2021 winner:

1st Place: Nikki Clauss, University of Texas Health Science Center At San Antonio
“Role of Organic Cation Transporter 3 in the Locomotor Sensitizing Effects and Rewarding Properties of Amphetamine in Male and Female Mice”