Semi-Annual Recipient Updates
Terence Ching has completed his dissertation and presented his dissertation content at the Psychedelic Psychotherapy Forum. He plans to present at an Underrepresented diversity talk at King’s College. He is also in talks with MAPS to publish his dissertation.
Madeline Pantoni’s research was halted for several months due to COVID-related lab closures, and she is now back in the lab and running experiments! The current status of the various parts of her project exploring the cognitive-behavioral effects of MDMA is as follows: Preparation phase - Social behavior tests, Data Collection phase - Anxiety tests, Data Analysis phase - Addiction tests, Write Up phase - Memory tests, Depression tests. Madeline is on target to complete the project by March 2021.
See her presentations listed below.
Pantoni MM (October 2020) Psychostimulants and their friends: The cognitive-behavioral effects of monoamine reuptake inhibitors. Job talk given virtually at the University of California San Francisco.
Pantoni MM (September 2020) Psychostimulants and their friends: The cognitive-behavioral effects of monoamine reuptake inhibitors. Job talk given virtually at Encoded Therapeutics.
Pantoni MM (July 2020) Psychostimulants and their friends: The cognitive-behavioral effects of monoamine reuptake inhibitors. Job talk given virtually at Eli Lilly and Company.
Pantoni MM and Anagnostaras SG (April 2020) MDMA and Pavlovian fear memory: Dose-effect analysis.
Poster presentation at The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)
Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology 2020, San Diego, CA. (Conference canceled)
Hillary (Ana) Anne Flecha was not able to travel to her research site due to COVID-19. The event she was planning to attend to conduct her research was postponed conditionally until 2021, so she is planning to attend next year.
Gabrielle Agin-Liebes has completed her project and published her manuscript in January 2020. She has not used funds to attend a conference or pay conference fees but intends to use them at some point soon.
Brandon Weiss has three projects in development stemming from his original dataset (which is fully collected): Main personality manuscript: Has been submitted and rejected from Nature Human Behavior, but he is revising now for submission to Nature Scientific Reports. Narcissism manuscript: Analyzing data phase. Psychological Flexibility manuscript: Analyzing data/Results phase. No publications quite yet. But, Brandon does have a preprint up with some preliminary validation of the Ayahuasca Experience Inventory: Weiss, B., Miller, J. D., Carter, N. T., & Campbell, W. K. (2020, August 6). Development of Ayahuasca Experience Inventory (Retrieved from https://osf.io/9ybmt/).
Halsey Niles has successfully conducted 19 interviews, with data analysis now ongoing. His manuscript(s) are in initial preparation with none submitted quite yet.
Olivia Marcus finished her PhD and has closed her study, though she is still editing papers for publication and recently presented at ICPR in September 2020 and at an STS conference in August 2020. Her publications are listed below:
Marcus O. ‘Traditionalizing global forms: ethics in vegetalista practices of the Peruvian Amazon’. Paper presented at the 2020 Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research in Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Marcus O. ‘Ethics in mind-altering vegetalista practices of the Peruvian Amazon’; Paper at the 4S/EASST 2020 conference in Prague, Czech Republic.