Homanics Lab News

Annalisa M. Baratta, PhD, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Neuroimmune Gene Expression in Alcohol Use Disorder” on December 11, 2023.

Sonja L. Plasil successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Long Noncoding RNA Dysregulation Alters Ethanol Drinking Behavior and Ethanol-Related Behavioral Phenotypes” on April 13, 2023. 

Congratulations to principal investigators Sean P. Farris, PhD, and Gregg E. Homanics, PhD, who will receive U01 funding from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for the project “Epigenetic Regulation of Neuroimmune Pathways.”

Sonja received an F31 predoctoral fellowship award from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for her project “LncRNA Gas5 Dysregulation Alters Ethanol Drinking Behavior and Ethanol-Related Phenotypes.”

Annalisa Baratta from the lab of Gregg E. Homanics, PhD, and co-mentored by Sean P. Farris, PhD, received an F31 predoctoral fellowship award from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for her project “The Role of lncRNA MALAT1 in Controlling Behavior and Neuroinflammation in Alcohol Use Disorder.”

Congratulations to Gregg E. Homanics, PhD, who was recently named a Specialty Chief Editor for the section Methods and Model Organisms for the journal Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience.

Gregg E. Homanics, PhD, received a Pitt Innovator Award from the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute at their 14th annual Celebration of Innovation on November 20.

The cover of the March 2019 issue of Brain Sciences featured a publication by the research team of Gregg E. Homanics, PhD, published in the same issue.

The title of his thesis was “Role of paternal preconception environment in ethanol- and stress-related phenotypes.”

The article “5 Ways Men Shape Their Children’s Health” on Time.com cited published work on alcohol effects from the lab of Gregg E. Homanics, PhD.