News

2025

• The Cummings lab was awarded a NIDA Stephen I. Katz R01 grant to study the prefrontal GABAergic circuit mechanisms of adaptive and maladaptive reward seeking!

• Hunter was admitted to the CSHL Data Science course! Yay, Hunter!

• Jace defended his Sci Tech honors thesis. Congrats, Jace!

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2024

• Kirstie was named a 2024 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Travel Awardee!

• Hunter won a spot on a NIMH T32!

• Zephyr won a spot on a NIGMS T32!

• Zephyr and Rodrigo both won Best Talk awards at the 2024 UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center Retreat!

• The Cummings lab was recognized with the UAB Featured Discovery Award!

• Zephyr won Best Poster at the 2024 GRC on the Frontal Cortex! Well-done!

• Brianna and Rodrigo both won Early Career Scientist Awards at the 2024 GRC on the Frontal Cortex. Very well-deserved!

• Rodrigo was named an awardee of the 2024 NIH Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP)! Congrats on the well-deserved honor, Rodrigo!

• Noelle Potter joined our lab as an undergraduate researcher! Welcome to the team, Noelle!

• Tashana Hawkins is joining the lab in Summer 2024 as a Blazer BRAIN fellow! Welcome, Tashana!

• Victoria was awarded a UAB Summer Research Academy Fellowship - congrats, Victoria!

• Zephyr won the Best Poster Award at the 2024 NeuroGateways Neuroengineering meeting at UAB!

• Kirstie was named a 2024 James A. Pittman, Jr., MD Scholar in the Heersink School of Medicine at UAB!

• Zephyr Desa and Hunter Franks joined the lab as PhD students in January - we are happy to welcome them aboard!

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2023

• Zephyr won the Best Poster Award at the 2023 Pavlovian Society Meeting in Austin, TX - congratulations, Zephyr!

• Rodrigo won a Best Poster Award at the 2023 UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center Retreat - well deserved!

• Alana Moore is joining the lab in Summer 2023 as a Blazer BRAIN fellow! Welcome, Alana!

• Kenya was admitted to the Summer Undergraduate Research Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai!

• Brianna won a spot on a NIGMS T32 grant - outstanding!

• Brianna won a NIH Diversity Supplement - way to go, Brianna!

• Brianna joined as a PhD student in March!

• Kirstie was awarded a BBRF NARSAD Young Investigator Award

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2022

• Kirstie was awarded a grant from the Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation

• Rodrigo joined as a postdoctoral fellow in September!

• Zephyr joined as a postbacc fellow in July!

• Kirstie was awarded a NIH BRAIN Initiative R00 award through NIMH

• The lab opened on May 2nd, 2022