News
Conferences & Presentations
Pavlovian Society 2021 Annual Meeting (September 2021)
Society for Neuroscience 2021 Virtual Meeting (November 2021)
International Society for Developmental Psychobiology 2021 in Chicago (November 2021)
Society for Neuroscience 2022 Meeting in San Diego (November 2022)
Amygdala Function in Emotion, Cognition and Disease, Gordon Research Conference in Barcelona, Spain ( July 2023)
Awards & Updates
August 2023
June 2023
May 2023
"Amygdala circuit transitions supporting developmentally-appropriate social behavior" published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
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.
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