Current Position
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Hanna Gray Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota

4-160 Jackson Hall
321 Church Street, Minneapolis MN
arifhamid.DA@gmail.com

Education and Training

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, PhD in Neuroscience: 2016. 

                               Thesis: Dopamine contributions to motivational vigor and reinforcement learning. PDF

• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, BS in Neuroscience, 2010

Specialized summer courses

• Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Cold spring harbor, NY, Imaging Structure and Function Course, July - August 2017
• Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan, Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course, June-July 2014
• Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Neural Systems and Behavior Course, June – August 2010

Awards and Honors
2020                Cell Press. 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America
2019                  NIH office of the Director, Rising Star Award
2017-2024       Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Hanna H. Gray Fellowship (1.4 million dollar award for 8 years of support)
2017                  Helmsley Fellowship
2016                  University of Michigan Medical School, Neuroscience Research Scholar Award
2014                  NIDA Early Career Investigator Travel Award
2014                  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Japan), Travel Grant
2014                  National Institutes of Drugs of Abuse, predoctoral Training Grant
2013                  Gordon Research Conference,  Travel Fellowship
2012                  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention
2011-2013        University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, Rackham Merit Fellowship
2011                   University of Minnesota, NorthStar STEM Alliance Travel Fellowship
2010                 NorthStar STEM Alliance Spring symposium, Best Oral Presentation
2009                American Chemical Society, Outstanding Poster Award

Professional Service and Membership
2020-21          Program/Abstract Selection Committee, COSYNE Conference 
2019                 Program Committee, Winter Conference on Brain Research (WBCR)
2019                 Chair, Winter Conference on Brain Research Panel
2018-               Executive Committee Member, Postdocs in Brain Science (PIBS), Brown University
2018                 Chair, Gordon Research Seminar, Basal Ganglia
2017-                Associate Faculty Member, F1000 Neuroscience, Theoretical/Computational Neurosci
2016                 Organizing Committee, Gordon Research Seminar on Basal Ganglia
2012-16            Organizing Committee, University of Michigan Brain week BrainsRule
2011-                Member, International Basal Ganglia Society (IBAGS)
2009-              Member, Society for Neuroscience (SfN)


Journal peer review
 eLife,  Journal of Neuroscience, Plos One, Psychopharmacology, Neural Networks, Schizophrenia Research, Neuropsychopharmacology, Neurophotonics, PNAS, Cell, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, EJN


Publications:  [GOOGLE SCHOLAR PAGE]





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• Hamid AA, Frank MJ, Moore CI. (2021) Wave-like dopamine dynamics as a mechanism of spatiotemporal credit assignment. Cell, in press. PDF
• Mohebi A, Pettibone JR, Hamid AA, et. al., (2018)​ Dissociable dopamine dynamics for learning and motivation. Nature 570, 65-70 PDF
• Hamid AA, et. al., (2016) Mesolimbic dopamine signals the value of work. Nature Neuroscience   PDF 
• Resendez SL, Dome M, Gormley G, Franco D, Nevarez N, Hamid AA, Aragona BJ. (2013) μ-Opiod receptors within subregions of the striatum mediate pair bond formation through parallel yet distinct read mechanisms. Journal of Neuroscience  PDF
• Mishra A, Hamid AA, Newman EA. (2011). Oxygen Modulation of neurovascular coupling in the rat retina.  PNAS PDF 

         ​in preparation
        • Hamid AA, Berke JD. Plasticity windows for dopamine mediated update of state and action values.
        • Hamid AA, Moore CI, Frank MJ. Sub-second FSCV measurement of absolute dopamine levels to dissociate phasic and tonic dopamine.

Invited Talks / Seminars (upcoming)
Aug 2022       Gordon Research Conference, Frontal Cortex, Ventura, CA
June 2021       Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience Conference (MMiN), Lyon, France
May 2021       Gordon Research Conference, Basal Ganglia, Ventura, CA
May 2021       Dopamine 2021, Research Panel speaker. Montreal, Québec
May 2021       Lake Arrowhead Reward and Decision-Making Conference, Lake Arrowhead, CA
Apr. 2021       University of California, Irvine, Center for Addiction Neuroscience Virtual Seminar
Apr. 2021       Ghent University, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Virtual Seminar
Apr. 2021       University of Washington, Department of Psychology Virtual Seminar
Mar. 2021       Emory University, Department of Biology Virtual Seminar
Mar. 2021      University of Wisconsin-Madison, Psychology Department Virtual Seminar
Mar. 2021       Johns Hopkins University, Psychological and Brain Sciences Virtual Seminar
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Dec. 2020     University of Alabama-Birmingham, Department of Neuroscience Virtual Seminar
Dec. 2020     Northwestern University, Physiology/Neuroscience Department Virtual Seminar
Dec. 2020     University of Pennsylvania, Mahoney Institute Virtual Seminar
Nov. 2020     Johns Hopkins University, Department of Neuroscience Virtual Seminar
Oct. 2020     UCLA Brain Research Institute, Decision Making Affinity Group Virtual Seminar
Oct. 2020     Society for Neuroscience in Africa (SONA), Virtual Seminar
Oct. 2020     Brown University, Michael S. Goodman ’74 Memorial Seminar, Virtual Lecture
Sep. 2020     University of Minnesota, Department of Neuroscience Virtual Seminar
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Sep. 2019       NIH Rising Stars Lecture. Bethesda, MD
Aug. 2019       GRC Catecholamines Conference. Newry, ME
July 2019       Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS 2019) Dopamine Workshop. Barcelona, Spain
May 2019      NYU, Neuroscience Institute Seminar. New York, NY
Mar. 2019      University of Bordeaux, Neurocampus Seminar. Bordeaux, France
Mar. 2019      Cosyne 2019 Workshop: "Dopamine Updated". Cascais, Portugal
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Feb. 2019      Winter Conference on Brain Research (WBCR) Panel. Snowmass, CO
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Dec. 2018     UCSF Neuroscience Seminar. San Francisco, CA
Nov. 2018     SfN 2018 Nanosymposium: BG circuitry for Motivation and Reward. Washington DC 
Oct. 2018      CUNY, Neuroscience Seminar Series. New York, NY
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Oct. 2017      Dartmouth College, Psychology Department Seminar. Hanover, NH 
Apr. 2017      UCSF Neurology, Alcohol and Addiction Research Group. San Francisco, CA
Jan. 2017       Winter Conference on Brain Research (WCBR) Panel. Big Sky, MT
Mar. 2017      Cold Spring Harbor, Kepecs Group. 
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Apr. 2016      University of Michigan, Neuroscience Spring symposium
Feb. 2016      Brown University, Department of Neuroscience
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Oct. 2015      University of Michigan, Neuroscience Graduate Program retreat
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Feb. 2014      University of Michigan, Biopsychology colloquium
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Oct. 2013      University of Michigan, Neuroscience Graduate Program retreat
Jun. 2013       Gordon Research Seminar on Catecholamines, Mount Snow Resort, VT

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Teaching and Mentoring: 
Marine Biological Laboratories (MBL)

1. Teaching Assistant for Striatum and Somatosensory Modules, "Neural Systems and behavior course" 2018

University of Michigan

1.  Guest lecturer in graduate course: Psych 731 “Physiological psychology”- 2013, 2015                        
2. Assistant in Instruction, occasional lecturer in undergraduate course: “Drugs of Abuse” Psych 436. 2014
3. Assistant in Instruction of undergraduate course: Biol 172 “Introduction to Molecular Biology”- 2012

University of Minnesota

1. Assistant in Instruction. Biol 3700 “Gateway to Research” - 2009​​

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Conference abstracts:

• Hamid AA, Frank MJ, Moore CI. (2018) Reward synchronizes dopamine axons into directional waves. GRC Basal Ganglia, Ventura, CA
• Hamid AA, Frank MJ, Moore CI. (2017) Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of dopamine decision signals. Society for Neuroscience. Washington DC
• Hamid AA, Mohebi A, Berke JD. (2016) Signals for reward prediction and prediction errors on the forebrain-midbrain dopamine axis. Winter Conference on Brain Research. Big Sky, Montana. 
• Hamid AA, Berke JD. (2016) Signals for reward prediction and prediction errors on the forebrain-midbrain dopamine axis. Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA
• Hamid AA, Berke JD. (2016) Variable plasticity windows for action and state value update by dopamine. Gordon Research Conference on Basal Ganglia. Ventura, CA
• Patel, PR, Mohebi A, Popov P, Hamid AA, Aragona BJ, Berke JD, Chestek CA. Development of high density carbon fiber arrays for concurrent electrophysiology and fast scan cycle voltammeter detection of dopamine. BRAIN Initiative conference. Bethesda, MD.
• Pettibone JR, Mohebi A, Hamid AA, Wong JM, Kennedy RT, Berke JD. (2015) Neuromodulation and adaptive decision-making in frontal cortex and striatum. Society for Neuroscience. Chicago, IL
• Hamid AA, Berke JD. (2015) Mesolimbic dopamine signals the value of work. Gordon Research Conference Catecholamines, Newry, ME.  
• Pettibone JR, Hamid AA, Schmidt S, Aragona BJ, and Berke JD. (2014) Contribution of tonic and phasic dopamine to adaptive decision-making. Society for Neuroscience. Washington D.C.
• Hamid AA, Schmidt S,  Pettibone JR, Aragona BJ, and Berke JD. (2014) Dopamine signals the value of work. OIST-OCNC, Okinawa, Japan. 
• Hamid AA, Schmidt S, Pettibone JR, Aragona BJ, and Berke JD. (2013) Dissociating the roles of phasic and tonic dopamine in adaptive decision-making. Society for Neuroscience. 
• Hamid AA, Schmidt S, Pettibone JR, Aragona BJ, and Berke JD. (2013) Dopamine coding of error related and motivational signals develop over different time courses. Gordon Research Conference - Catecholamines.
• Hamid AA, Vander Weele CM, Schmidt S, Pettibone JR, Aragona BJ, and Berke JD. (2012) Accumbens dopamine encodes both incentive motivation and bidirectional reward prediction error signal. Society for Neuroscience 2012.
• Mishra A, Hamid AA, Newman EA. (2010) Oxygen Modulates functional hyperemia in the retina. Society for Neuroscience 2010.