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![Congrats to Dr. Jessica Zhou for her successful Ph.D. defense!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462820844-LJO0ZL2IO25UQVPZK22P/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Francesca gives a talk at the NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Team Meeting](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462839506-FK4UVRJXMK01EOV0JBOL/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
Francesca gives a talk at the NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Team Meeting
Francesca gives a talk at the NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Team Meeting at Natcher Auditorium on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD.
![Ashley Kumar presents a poster at the NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Team Meeting](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462852056-HTIXDD5BYXX4Y1PZCY96/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
Ashley Kumar presents a poster at the NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Team Meeting
Ashley Kumar presents a poster at the NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Team Meeting at Natcher Auditorium on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD.
![Yanning Zuo is selected for a short talk at the NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Team Meeting](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462868093-9QFBVMP09VTMV0KPJNJO/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Francesca Telese is promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462879664-SK3RVIIGKI2ONO2HC1CV/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Francesca Telese gives a talk at the 2023 annual retreat of the UCSD/UCLA Diabetes Research Center ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462891248-446H606AHYNJ4YU51YAR/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Congratulations to Ashley Kumar for a successful Master’s Thesis defense!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462903764-LLE9OHC75EEU54F2Z43K/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Congratulations to Asiha Nur for acceptance to medical school!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462915691-Q05XTDSN2PVV8ZB7MDA5/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Welcome to Dr. Avi Libster who joins our lab as a senior postdoc!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462927817-QYYIAQUR2NBKZMRRUYAK/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![We are awarded a new R01 in collaboration with Giordano de Guglielmo’s lab](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462939887-7C33SK6W3N2SNAUXCWD4/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Welcome to Dr. Narayan Pokhrel who joins our lab as a postdoc from Hebrew University (Israel)!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462950907-Y5KYSLA7VBHETO14F1U1/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Welcome to Dr. Rijwan Ahammad who joins our lab as a postdoc from Nogoya University (Japan)!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719462971608-CUL2QJCEUECS10WIBQGH/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Telese lab at the 23rd Annual Genes, Brain & Behavior Meeting](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719463002645-A2VQKOYIUH201KB7ITTM/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Francesca Telese gives a talk at the WorldWideNeuro Webinar Series](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719463089989-JW9VTEZOXET3O3FDNFOY/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Francesca Telese receives an Innovative Research Grant Award from the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719463105543-TW50V60ZK9YJWTXANU50/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Francesca Telese gives a talk at The International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719463124246-A3LR1POFHH0ZBNPCO4PR/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![We receive a Pilot Award from the NIDA Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719463141241-EHGVT0DFJLB5IEE9XQIL/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![We receive a Pilot Award from the NIDA center for GWAS study](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719463162897-61SXLWFX0DP4LRQ9K4NA/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Francesca Telese presents at International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS) meeting in Boca Raton](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719463176452-NEEOETA5FT5U32D65BL0/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)
![Francesca Telese gives a talk at the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) meeting in Vienna](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660b6cd56c4c8e3f23069e9f/1719463191524-M3UFYHPYAJWU8YGIXLFG/TelseLab_Social_2024_Lab+News.jpg)