Garret Stuber, Ph.D.

Professor, University of Washington

SFARI Investigator, SFARI Scientific Review Board Website

Garret Stuber received his B.S. degree from the University of Washington in 2000 and his Ph.D. in neurobiology from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill in 2005, where he worked with Regina Carelli and Mark Wightman. He completed his postdoctoral work with Antonello Bonci at the University of California, San Francisco, where he learned slice electrophysiology and established optogenetic approaches to study neural circuit function.

Stuber started his laboratory in 2010 in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Center at UNC. In 2018, the Stuber Lab moved to the University of Washington to join the newly formed center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion and the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Pharmacology. He has co-authored over 75 papers on the neurocircuitry underlying motivated behavior.

Funded Projects

Visualizing neural circuits of social sensory processing

Awarded: 2015
Award Type: Pilot

SFARI Funded Publications

Social stimuli induce activation of oxytocin neurons within the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus to promote social behavior in male mice. Resendez S.L., Namboodiri V.M.K., Otis J.M., Eckman L.E.H., Rodriguez-Romaguera J., Ung R.L., Basiri M.L., Kosyk O., Rossi M.A., Dichter G., Stuber G.

Research Highlight

Hormonal gain control of a medial preoptic area social reward circuit. McHenry J.A., Otis J.M., Rossi M.A., Robinson J. E., Kosyk O., Miller N.W., McElligott Z.A., Budygin E.A., Rubinow D.R., Stuber G.

Visualization of cortical, subcortical and deep brain neural circuit dynamics during naturalistic mammalian behavior with head-mounted microscopes and chronically implanted lenses. Resendez S.L., Jennings J.H., Ung R.L., Namboodiri V.M., Zhou Z.C., Otis J.M., Nomura H., McHenry J.A., Kosyk O., Stuber G.