Britt Lab
News
Papers, people and other updates from the lab.
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Welcome to the 2026–27 lab
Three Ph.D. students, two M.Sc. students and nine undergraduate researchers make up the lab this year.
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A new home for the lab online
Our redesigned website is live, in English and French, with an interactive gallery of published data.
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Serotonin and the strength of attention
A collaboration led by the Krishnaswamy lab, published in Nature Communications, shows that fast serotonin dynamics regulate how strongly mice attend to visual targets.
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Jon's Canada Research Chair is renewed
Jonathan Britt's Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Neuroscience has been renewed.
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Does alcohol taste better the more you drink it?
In Physiology & Behavior, Valyear, Eustachon and Britt report that mice come to find alcohol, and flavours paired with it, more palatable over time.