Jerry A. Stitzel

This study shows that acute nicotine exposure induces a spatially organized transcriptional response in mouse olfactory cortex, affecting specific neurons and their surrounding astrocytes.

The paper investigates the role of AKT2 in astrocytic nicotine responses, showing it modulates morphological changes and nicotine preference in mice.

The paper identifies transcriptomic differences in reward-specific ensembles in mice during cocaine and sucrose seeking using single-cell RNA sequencing.

This study introduces a method to analyze gene-gene interactions across multiple traits and tissues, identifying novel associations and pathways through transcriptome-wide interaction studies.

The paper assesses the association of two gene sets with smoking behaviors using GWAS data and finds they contribute little to the heritability of these traits.