News

June 2025

• Brittany presents a poster on Tac2-BNST neurons at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (SLEEP) conference in Seattle, WA.

May 2025

• Will presents a seminar talk at NIH/NIDA Intramural Research Program in Baltimore, MD.

January 2025

• Brittany receives the Hanna Gray award from HHMI.

• Riley starts in the lab as a graduate rotation student.

• Will chairs a symposium and gives a talk at the 2025 Winter Conference on Brain Research (Winter Brain).

December 2024

• Will and Allison receive a seed grant from the Stanford WHSDM Center.

October 2024

• Yihe is awarded the SfN Trainee Professional Development Award.

• Yihe and Brittany present posters at SfN 2024.

September 2024

• Dr. Ivy Hoang joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow and Faith joins as a rotating graduate student!

• Ivy is awarded the Stanford Baker Fellowship.

• Will gives talks at the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcohol (ISBRA) and the Hypothalamic Neuroscience and Neuroendocrinology Australasia (HNNA) x Australian Appetitive Motivation Symposium (AAMS) joint symposium.

August 2024

• Allison receives the F31 NRSA award through the NIH/NIAAA.

• The Giardino and Urban labs receive funding from the Escher Fund for Autism Research.

June 2024

• Allison presents a poster and Will gives a talk at the 2024 Research Society on Alcoholism meeting in Minneapolis.

May 2024

• Brittany receives a Merit travel award to attend and present a poster at the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms meeting.

• Allison, Ethan, and Isaac attend and present posters at the Stanford Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute retreat.

• Isaac presents a poster of his honors thesis project at the Achauer Undergraduate Honors Biology Symposium.

April 2024

• Arwa joins the lab, funded by a Stanford VPUE summer fellowship.

March 2024

• Liv joins the lab and is awarded the Stanford NeURO summer fellowship.

• Irene joins the lab and is awarded the Stanford MCHRI-DRIVE summer fellowship.

• Isaac presents a poster at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting on Neuronal Circuits.

February 2024

• Angeline is admitted to the Stanford Masters program in Community Health and Prevention Research.

January 2024

• The lab attends the Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences retreat at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.

• Will gives a talk at Columbia University Center of Excellence for Sleep & Circadian Research.

• Yihe presents a poster at the Stanford Center for Molecular Neuroscience in Health & Disease symposium.

November 2023

• Yihe presents a poster at the Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington, D.C.

October 2023

• Ethan joins the lab!

• Max and Allison give poster presentations at Stanford’s Wu Tsai 10th Annual Neurosciences Symposium.

• Yihe gives a talk at the Neurofeedback seminar.

September 2023

• Max and Allison give poster presentations at the Stanford Bio-X symposium.

August 2023

• Brittany is awarded a Propel Fellowship from Stanford.

• Will presents a talk at the European Brain & Behaviour Society meeting in Amsterdam.

• Angeline presents her poster at the Stanford MCHRI-DRIVE symposium.

• Haniyyah presents her poster at the NIH Diversity Supplement Professional Development and Networking Workshop.

July 2023

• Dr. Brittany Bush joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow!

June 2023

• Will presents a talk in a symposium at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence meeting in Denver, Colorado.

• Liane is awarded the “Special Recognition Award for Outstanding Psychiatric Research” for her contributions to the lab.

May 2023

• Will gives a talk at the Alcoholism and Stress conference in Volterra, Italy.

• The lab receives grants from the Brain Research Foundation and the McCormick Fellowship award.

April 2023

• Haniyyah’s review article is accepted for publication in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.

• Emmalyn starts a rotation with the Giardino lab as a graduate student with the Neurosciences PhD program.

March 2023

• Allison passes her qualifying exam!

January 2023

• The lab received a pilot grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Awards program of the Stanford Center for Clinical & Translational Research & Education (SPECTRUM).

• The lab is awarded a seed grant from the Stanford Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences (CSCS).

November 2022

• The lab attends the annual Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, CA, where Yihe presents a poster.

October 2022

• Yihe presents a poster at the Stanford Research Park Symposium.

• Will and Yihe attend the Alcohol and the Nervous System Gordon Research Conference & Symposium in Oxnard, CA, where Yihe presents a poster.

September 2022

• The lab attends the Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences retreat at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, where Will presents a talk.

August 2022

• Yihe and Haniyyah receive an award for their poster at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program Poster Session.

August 2022

• The lab is awarded a Diversity Supplement grant for Haniyyah as part of the existing R00 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism.

July 2022

• Allison officially joins the Giardino lab for her PhD!

July 2022

• Max is awarded the “Special Recognition Award for Outstanding Psychiatric Research” for his contributions to the lab.

June 2022

• Will presents a talk and attends the Stanford Neurosciences IDP retreat in Pacific Grove, CA.

June 2022

• Yihe’s review article on the CCK neuropeptide system in addiction is accepted for publication in the journal Addiction Neuroscience.

June 2022

• Allison starts a rotation as a graduate student with the Neurosciences PhD program.

• Harry joins as a high school student with the SIMR program.

• Nick and Isaac start summer fellowships with the HB-REX and Bio-X USRP programs, respectively.

May 2022

• Will, Yihe, and Haniyyah attend the Stanford Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute retreat in Santa Cruz, CA.

May 2022

• Will is awarded a Research Grant from the Whitehall Foundation.

March 2022

• Will presents a talk and visits the Department of Psychology at the University of San Diego.

March 2022

• Undergraduate students Angeline and Nick join the lab.

January 2022

• Undergraduate student Isaac joins the lab.

• Undergraduate students Malia C., Max, and Natasha also join the lab for a winter quarter project through the IntroSems Plus program.

November 2021

• The lab receives a grant from the Stanford Center on Women’s Health and Sex Differences in Medicine (WHSDM).

October 2021

• Jonathan receives a VPUE undergraduate grant for his work in the lab.

September 2021

• Paula begins in the lab for her first rotation as a graduate student in the Neurosciences PhD program.

June 2021

• Jonathan enters the NeURO summer fellowship program. Naryeong receives a VPUE undergraduate grant.

May 2021

• Will receives notice of award for the R00 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism.

February 2021

• Yihe and Haniyyah join the lab as its first postdoc and lab manager.

January 2021

• Undergraduate students Jonathan, Naryeong, Francesca, and Sarah join the lab.

January 2021

• The lab officially opens its doors at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.