News

Conferences & Presentations


Pavlovian Society 2021 Annual Meeting (Sept 30 - Oct 2)

Society for Neuroscience 2021 Virtual Meeting (Nov 8 - 11)

International Society for Developmental Psychobiology 2021 in Chicago (Nov 10 - 12)



Awards & Updates

Jan 4 2022

Opendak Lab welcomes new lab technician Anne George

December 2021

"Bidirectional control of infant social behavior by dopaminergic innervation of the basolateral amygdala" published in Neuron Volume 109 Issue 24

Tommy Song:

After "six total years of data collection" as Dr. Maya Opendak tells me, our article combining tireless work from multiple collaborators and rigorous experimental research is pushed through to be the cover story of Neuron's October 2021 Issue. Take a sneak peak here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3707263


November 2021

Dr. Maya Opendak Receives 2021 David Kucharski Young Investigator Award at ISDP 2021

The nationally recognized Kucharski Young Investigator award is given to honor the memory of David Kucharski, to a promising young investigator in the field of Developmental Psychobiology.

Undergraduate Research Assistant Tommy Song '25 joins Opendak Lab

My First Day: September 24th, 2021


Opendak Lab opens at Kennedy Krieger Institute!!!

First Day of Opendak Lab: August 30th, 2021

Featuring the inaugural members: Dr. Opendak, Shannon Hu, and Kat Packard