• 4/27/23

    We are so excited to announce that the Groman Lab will be moving to the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Chicago this Fall! We will be recruiting at all levels (research technicians, graduate students , and postdocs) so please reach out to Dr. Groman if you are interested in joining the team (sgroman@uchicago.edu).

  • 10/6/22

    Stephanie had a paper accepted for publication in Journal of Neuroscience! This work was a collaboration between the University of Minnesota, Yale University, University of Maryland, University of Oxford, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Congratulations to all the authors!!

  • 9/26/22

    Louisa Kuper starts her rotation in the Groman Lab and we are so excited! Welcome to the team and the U, Louisa!

  • 9/15/22

    Notice of Award! The Saunders Lab and Groman Lab are official collaborators. Here, we will investigate how age-related changes in reinforcement-learning mechanisms emerge within select orbitofrontal circuits. We are so excited to start this work!!

  • 9/14/22

    Kate, Perou, and Justin gave excellent presentations of their ongoing work at the Minnesota Symposium on Addiction Neuroscience (MnSAN)! Here is Perou explaining how adolescence is a critical period in the development of addiction susceptibility.

  • 9/14/22

    Kate, Perou, and Justin gave excellent presentations of their ongoing work at the Minnesota Symposium on Addiction Neuroscience (MnSAN)! Here is Kate is explaining how differences in oral oxycodone taking behaviors emerge.

  • 9/14/22

    Kate, Perou, and Justin gave excellent presentations of their ongoing work at the Minnesota Symposium on Addiction Neuroscience (MnSAN)! Here is Justin with Dr. Torregrossa explaining differences in developmental trajectories in alcohol preferring rats.

  • 8/29/22

    Mara Russell officially joins the Groman Lab! Mara comes from Vassar College where she was working on social reward in mice. We are so excited to have her working with us! Welcome to the lab, Mara!

  • 8/11/22

    Celebration lunch for Abby Kiesow and Bella Green as Abby heads back to their home campus and Bella starts up medical school. We wish you all the best and can’t wait to hear about the exciting things you will do!

  • 8/11/22

    Visiting scholar Abby Kiesow presented an amazing poster on the work she did over the summer with a five-choice reversal learning task in rats. It was great having you in the lab Abby - we will miss you!

  • 6/6/22

    Justin Hill joins the lab as a Researcher 1! Justin is a UMN graduate and avid ultimate frisbee superstar so we know he will be an awesome team member. Welcome Justin!

  • 6/7/22

    Perou's first-author paper titled "Adolescent reinforcement-learning trajectories predict cocaine-taking behaviors in adult male and female rats" was accepted for publication in Psychopharmacology! Congratulations to Perou and co-author Jordan Casby!

  • 4/13/22

    Vikas did an AMAZING job presenting his (and the lab’s) first poster at the UROP poster session! Congratulations Vikas!!

  • 2/1/22

    Perou was promoted to Researcher 2 based on her hard work and dedication to the lab over the past year! Congratulations Perou!!

  • 1/3/22

    Vikas was awarded a research fellowship by the UMN Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) to study the role of perineuronal nets in decision-making functions. Congratulations Vikas!!

  • 12/16/21

    Gingerbread house competition! I think we have some architects hiding out as neuroscientists.

  • 12/15/21

    Our new Trends in Neuroscience review article - by Stephanie Groman, Summer Thompson, Daeyeol Lee, and Jane Taylor describing a computational framework for understanding addiction - is available online!

  • 12/9/21

    Stephanie has been elected to be an Associate Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP)!

  • 12/8/21

    Perou’s first, first-author paper is under review! Perou, in collaboration with Jordan Casby and Stephanie Groman, investigated the role of adolescent decision-making trajectories in drug-taking behaviors in adulthood. Congratulations on completing a remarkable study!

  • 11/8/21

    Zuhayr Alam begins his rotation in the Groman Lab! Welcome to the lab, Zuhayr!

  • 9/10/21

    Kate LaRocco joins the Groman Lab as a researcher! Welcome to the lab, Kate!

  • 9/9/21

    Vikas Prasad joins the Groman Lab as an undergraduate researcher! Welcome to the lab, Vikas!

  • 3/17/21

    Mary Jack joins the Groman Lab as an undergraduate researcher! Welcome to the lab, Mary!

1/12/21: The Groman Lab officially opened its doors today! And we even had an amazing sign to hang made by the talented Neema Moin Afshar!! We went from an empty lab space in the morning to being ready to assemble 30 operant boxes in the afternoon. If anyone ever needs to know, 30 rat operant boxes = 92 FedEx boxes delivered on 9 pallets. Now the fun can finally begin!

Our very own lab sign made by the wonderful

Neema Moin Afshar!

How it started…

How it’s going.

So. Many. Boxes!!

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It is official - the Groman Laboratory will be starting at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities January 2021! We will be hiring research technicians and post-doctoral fellows to join our team, so please reach out to Dr. Stephanie Groman (sgroman@gmail.com) if you are interested.

We will also be accepting graduate students in the Fall of 2021, so if you are interested in addiction, decision making, or neurodevelopment please send an email to Dr. Stephanie Groman (sgroman@gmail.com).

Illustration by the talented Sonia Ruiz!