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DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS
We’re tired of it. Our struggles with the mute button are legendary. We relish the ability to feign interest and multi-task without discovery and avoid the personal investment required to actually physically move. In short, we can “attend” without “fully attending to”. As time has passed, we’ve grown increasingly comfortable at our standing desks walking on the treadmill and/or reclining in our office chairs with our feet on our desk. I admit, first thing I look for on a flyer is whether there is a ZOOM link… THEN I review the remaining details. September marked our return to F2F for internal speakers. As expected, there were grumbles about “hiking uphill in the snow”, mitigated by enthusiasm for the cookies. Our speaker did a GREAT job (Thank You, Dr. Murphy). But I take particular note of the event that followed the lecture. A participant approached the speaker, shared the fact that they were doing similar work...AND WITH THAT F2F exchange, the possibility of a new collaboration was born! UF CARE’s mission in action. Seriously isn’t it great? Although unlikely that I’ll physically attend every meeting with a ZOOM option [Come'on, really?], I will think on this single event and be reminded of the gain associated with “fully attending to”. And while I have your attention (yes, lame), check out this month’s installment for information about nominating your staff for membership, member achievements (including a baby “Berey”), and essential details regarding our Legacy Lecture on Oct. 12th. As we shared previously, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Rueben Gonzales’ return to UF and are excited to provide access to his lecture to our distant as well as local audiences! Finally, to satisfy that nagging curiosity, participants in the ZOOM meeting above are identified at the CONCLUSION of the newsletter!
Guess I better rise from my chair and actually walk to a meeting,
SJN
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STAFF AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP
Affiliate membership to UF CARE is now available to UF staff members working in addiction science! Staff must be nominated by UF CARE Full Members.
Eligible staff members:
1) Work in addiction/substance use science either in direct data collection and/or oversight/training/administration with at least a 0.5FTE on substance use/addiction related research. General administrative staff would not be eligible, nor those who provide services without regard for domain.
2) Work in addiction-related research for at least 1 year.
Staff affiliate members are not eligible for UF CARE funding opportunities (e.g travel awards, dissertation aid awards). Level of participation (such as joining committees) is directed by Full Member's approval.
Members can nominate their staff by filling out the nomination form linked below.
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DISSERTATION AID GRANTS
UF CARE is excited to support the 2022-2023 Dissertation Award Grants at the level of up to $7500/each. The deadline for submitting applications has been extended to October 17th.
Applicants MUST be UF CARE affiliate members and have successfully completed their qualifying exam at the time of application. Otherwise, they are not eligible for the current round of funding. THIS year, we are delighted to accommodate potential applicants who are completing their qualifying exams later in the semester or early in Spring semester by issuing a second call for applications in early 2023!
Our previous awardees and their mentors include:
2019-2020
Erin Ferguson (Mentor: Jeff Boissoneault, PhD)
Carly Logan (Mentor: Lori Knackstedt, PhD)
2020-2021
Christian Garcia (Mentor: Sara Jo Nixon, PhD)
Neo Gebru (Mentor: Robert Leeman, PhD)
Peter Hamor (Mentor: Marek Schwendt, PhD)
Douglas Miller (Mentor: Habibeh Khoshbouei, PhD)
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THE MONTHLY SEMINAR SERIES
Thank you to those who were able to join us for the first seminar of the of the 2022-2023 academic year! For those who were unable to attend in-person, the recording of Dr. Murphy's seminar can be found on the UF CARE website linked below.
The Inaugural Legacy Lecture is next up in the monthly seminar series. You won't want to miss Dr. Gonzales' talk on October 12th at 3pm.
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INTERNATIONAL REACH
UF CARE members and affiliates have an international influence. See below for three of the most recent examples.
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2nd World Congress on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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The second joint meeting of the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA) and the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) took place in Krakow, Poland from September 17th to 20th. Dr. Sara Jo Nixon (UF CARE Director, Distinguished Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Psychology) co-chaired a symposium entitled "Alcohol and Socio-Affective Information Processing" in which Dr. Ben Lewis (Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience) presented "The Impact of Emotional Stimuli on Working Memory in Severe Alcohol Use Disorder".
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22nd World Psychiatric Association’s World Congress of Psychiatry
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The 22nd World Psychiatric Association’s World Congress of Psychiatry took place in Bangkok, Thailand from August 3rd to 6th. UF CARE members Dr. Linda Cottler (Dean's Professor And Senior Associate Dean For Research, Department of Epidemiology) and Dr. Catherine Stiley (Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology) and their team presented their research at the Congress and met international experts in the field to discuss mental health and substance use from a global perspective. Click below to read more about their trip.
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2022 European Chemoreception Research Organization Meeting
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The 2022 European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO) Meeting took place in Berlin, Germany from August 31st to September 3rd. UF CARE affiliate member Natalie Johnson (mentor: Dr. Dan Wesson, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics) delivered an invited lecture on her research related on a midbrain to ventral striatum circuit mediating arousal-evoked sniffing behavior. Natalie also received a competitive travel award to attend this meeting.
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NEW ADDICTION/SUBSTANCE USE GRANTS
Congratulations to the UF CARE members recently awarded grants!
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PI: Linda Cottler. PhD
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Dr. Linda Cottler is the contact PI for a recently awarded Other Transaction Agreement (OT2) from NIH: "The All of Us Consortium of CTSA Community Engagement Programs" is funded for -5 years at ~$15M.
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PI: Lori Knackstedt, PhD
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Dr. Lori Knackstedt (Associate Professor, Department of Psychology) was awarded $75,000 from the Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research Consortium to complete "A translational animal model to study neurobehavioral consequences of THC and oxycodone polysubstance use”. The project applies a rodent model of sequential oxycodone and cannabis intake to investigate the effects of opioid-cannabis polysubstance use on drug-seeking and outcomes.
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CO-PI Joanna Peris, PhD
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Dr. Joanna Peris (Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacodynamics) is Co-PI on a newly awarded R21 from NIAAA (Direct costs $275,000): "Deregulation of Sleep/Wake Homeostasis by Binge Alcohol Use Following Traumatic Brain Injury". The project will determine the lifelong timeline (acute, subacute, chronic) of TBI/BAU neuropathology and sleep dysfunction. The study will lay the groundwork for future molecular and genomic studies on how TBI and BAU induce neuroinflammation and how neuroinflammation impacts circadian and sleep homeostasis.
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JOURNAL OF ADDICTION MEDICINE (JAM) EDITORIAL FELLOWSHIP
Looking to Building Editorial Expertise?Application Deadline: October 21, 2022The Journal of Addiction Medicine (JAM), the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, seeks Editorial Fellows. Applicants should have at least two years of addiction research experience, have an MD, PhD, DSc, or PsyD degree, have completed clinical specialty training, and hold faculty positions at the instructor, or assistant professor level or other junior faculty level equivalent. Fellows will obtain extensive experience in manuscript review and scientific peer-reviewed publishing in addiction medicine. The two-year Editorial Fellowship offers an annual $500 stipend. Fellowships will begin January 1, 2023, and run through December 21, 2024.For more details, click below.
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Congratulations to the new affiliate members!
We are excited to welcome 3 new graduate trainees and a postdoctoral trainee as affiliate members: Katherine Driver, working with Dr. Marek Schwendt in the Department of Psychology, Katherine Gonzalez, working with Dr. Barry Setlow in the Department of Neuroscience, Anna Wang, working with Dr. Linda Cottler in the Department of Epidemiology, and Dr. Melissa Fenton, working with Dr. Catherine Striley in the Department of Epidemiology,If you are a UF CARE faculty member and are working with outstanding trainees in addiction science, click below to nominate them for membership.
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Dr. Ben Berey
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Dr. Ben Berey's family has welcomed a new addition!
Dr. Berey was previously a graduate affiliate member (mentor: Dr. Robert Leeman, Department of Health Education and Behavior). He is now an NIAAA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS) at the Brown School of Public Health. His research focuses on etiologic risk factors for substance use disorders, particularly AUD, using human laboratory alcohol administration paradigms to examine how individual differences in facets of impulsivity and subjective responses are related to heavy drinking and AUD risk.
Welcome baby Eliza!
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Bush N, Ferguson E, Boissoneault J, & Yurasek AM. (in press). Reliability of an Adaptive Marijuana Purchase Task. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Fitzgerald ND, Striley CW, Palamar JJ, Copeland J, Kurtz S, Cottler LB. (2021). Test-Retest Reliability and Cross-Cultural Applicability of DSM-5 Adopted Diagnostic Criteria for Ketamine Use Disorders. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 228. 109056. 1-7.Gilmour C, Blaes S, Bush NJ, Vitus D, Carpenter RW, Robinson M, & Boissoneault J. (in press). Pain and Alcohol Consumption in Virtual Reality. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Hoeflich CC, Wang A, Otufowora A, Cottler LB, Striley CW. (2022). Virtual Recruitment and Participant Engagement for Substance Use Research during a Pandemic. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 1090-1097.
Palamar JJ, Cottler LB, Goldberger BA, Severtson SG, Grundy DJ, Iwanicki JL. Ciccarone D. (2022). Trends in Characteristics of Fentanyl-Related Poisonings in the United States, 2015-2021. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. 1-10.
*Underline denotes UF CARE members and affiliates
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Not yet a member?
If you are a UF Faculty member working in addiction science and would like to join UF CARE, click below for more information about becoming a full member of UF CARE.
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Have news
to share?
Have updates you'd like to be included in the next UF CARE newsletter? Click below to share news about you and/or your affiliate trainees!
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Alumni updates?
Are you a UF CARE alumni affiliate? We want to hear from you! Click below to let us know about the work you're doing and update your contact information.
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ZOOM PARTICIPANTS PICTURED ABOVE
If you've made it to the end of the newsletter, congratulations! Here are the participants in the zoom meeting at the top of the newsletter:
A) Anthony Fauci
B) Rosalind Franklin
C) Ivan Pavlov
D) Marie Curie
E) E. M. Jellinek
F) Timothy Leary
G) George Koob
H) Lee Robins
I) Arvid Carlsson
J) B.F. Skinner
K) Emil du Bois-Reymond
L) Richard Thaler
M) Hans Selye
N) Nora Volkow
O) Edith Silverglied Lisansky Gomberg
P) Sergei Korsakoff
Most certainly a meeting worth "fully attending to"!
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