Welcome to the new homepage for Evan D. Morris, PhD,            Yale University

The home of "lp-ntPET" - the model that allows us to make "dopamine movies" from PET data!
Click here for related articles. Click here for Video tutorial. Click here for example movies (see Kim et al 2014 for explanation).


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Evan D, Morris, PhD
Professor of
Radiology and Biomedical Imaging,
Psychiatry,
Biomedical Engineering
Co-Director of Imaging Section
Yale PET Center
Yale University

evan.morris AT yale.edu


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OpEd gets into Wired!

Sept 2019




Evan named VP of Scientific Imaging Research at Invicro

Sept 2019
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Evan speaks at Hastings Center, Garrison NY during sabbatical.
Writes OpEd

Aug 2019

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Successful end to Spring semester
Research Ethics.
ENAS 508

Apr 2019


Evan awarded Visiting Scholar slot at Hastings Center Bioethics Research Institute summer 2019

Mar 2019


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Bart named finalist for Gordis award at Research Society for Alcoholism meeting in Minneapolis

Apr 2019


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Evan and Suchitra receive NIH Administrative Supplement to their kappa opioid grant.


Jan 2019

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Heather hosts "Off the Beaten Path"- women iu different careers. For GradSWE



Feb 2019
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Heather passes area exam! Moves on to 'candidacy'.


Oct 2018


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Successful end to Fall Semester 2018; Imaging Drugs. ENAS 880.


Dec
2018
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Evan completes 100K "Closer to Free" ride. Raises $1600


Sept 2018

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Aishwarya and Bart  publish new finding on Kappa receptors in Alcoholism.
Suppl. 1, 2, 3


Oct 2018
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Evan, Kelly, Michelle, Sherry & Ray get BIG NIH R01 grant on stress and relapse.

Aug 2018

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Katina in action!
Coverage of marijuana smoking project . "Innovations in Women's health"


Aug 2018
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Evan's review of  "The Gene" appears in special issue of  YJBM on gene editing.

Dec. 2017


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Katina completes oral exam!

July 2018
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Evan discusses dopamine movies  on Podacst for MIT Alumni Assoc
iation

June 2018



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Yasmin graduates

May 2018

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Bart defends thesis at Katholique University in Leuven!

Dec 2017

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Yasmin defends thesis!

Mar 2018
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Ryan and Shuo graduate!
May 2017

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Heather publishes first paper!
Oct 2017
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Ryan paper published in Translational Psychiatry


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Successful end to Spring Semester.  RCR course, ENAS 508
May 2017
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Shuo paper piublished in Neuroimage


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Successful end to Fall 2016 Semester
Dec 2016
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Yasmin passes Prospectus exam!
Oct 2016

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Shivani passes Qualifier!
Dec
2016
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Kelly wins Pioneer Award from WHRY. Evan and Kelly (and Elisa) featured in WHRY Newsletter
Oct 2016



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Aishwarya's finding on Sex differences in Kappa Opioid Receptors is covered in Yale Daily News
Oct 2016
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Shuo Wang successfully defends PhD thesis

July 2016

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Evan and Suchitra graduate! Promoted to Full Profs with tenure
July 2016


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Kelly and Evan win grant from Yale Office of Women's Health to study marijuana smoking in men and women.
June 2016

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Aishwarya's paper on sex differences in Kappa receptors is accepted by AJNMMI
May 2015

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Evan and Joe featured in Yale Cancer Center Breakthroughs > The Year In Review 2015
Jan 2016


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(click links for detailed program)




Evan holds international symposium on Advances in Brain Imaging in Jerusalem. Feb 29, 2016

(click link for poster)
Feb 2016


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Evan  receives R21 award from NIDA for collboration to do smoking studies in Israel`

Oct
2015

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Evan and Kelly featured in Israeli Media
 (Times of Israel)
Feb
2016
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Evan and Kelly receive R01 award from NIDA to study sex differnences in medications for smoking... via Dopamine movies
Aug 2015


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Succesful end to fall semester 2015
Read what people are saying about ENAS 880. (coming soon)
Nov 2015

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Evan, Joe receive R01 award from NCI to study EGFR in NSCLC with 11C-erlotinib
May 2015



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Evan wins Fulbright Scholar Award for teaching and research in Israel  2015/16

Read coverage in medicine.yale.edu


2015

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Shuo Wang wins travel bursary to give oral presentation at BrainPET conference, Vancouver. Mar 2015



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Successful end to fall semester 2014.  Read what people are saying about ENAS 880/NSCI 523 Dec 2014

Read some of the   Media Coverage of   Dopamine Movies:



RSNA News
May 2015



Obgyn.net repints Jackie and Evan's article on dopamine movies and PD
Jan 2015

Inostanza (Italy)

Feb
2015


World Econimic Forum


Jan 2015


Dec 2014


Hartford Courant

Dec 2014



Dec 2014

Neurology Times
(by Jackie and Evan Morris)

NIDA website
Jan 2015



Dec 2014


Danbury Times

HealthCanal (Australia)








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Kelly, Shuo, Evan and friends publish first lpntPET  results in smokers in Journal of Neuroscience
Full paper here

Nov 2014





Ryan Petrulli passes his Area Exam!


Dec 2014
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Aishwarya's research in Malaysia  featured in Yale News

Oct 2014

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Ansel's paper on MefWAY is on the cover of JNM and featured in MolecularImaging,net

Nov 2014
video A dopamine movie comparing a woman  smoking to a man smoking. (mp4 format). Right click to download.
Oct
2014

video Online course from Epigeum on mentoring. Evan interviewed.
Dec 2013
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Ryan's findings with 11C-erlotinib for imaging  lung cancer are featured in summary talk at SNM 2014 in St Louis
June 2014

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Sarah Goldberg, Joe Contessa and Evan receive core pilot funding from YCCI to scan monkeys and humans with 11C-erlotinib May 2014
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Sujin and friends publish mathematical basis for dopamine movies in Human Brain Mapping
Mar 2014


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Evan gives Grand Rounds at Yale Cancer Center. (video)
Mar 2014
yjbm Evan, Molly, Ryan, Kelly, publish review paper on PET Experiments and studies of drinking in Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine  Feb 2014
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Shuo and Ryan and other lab alumni have abstracts accepted to NRM 2014.
Feb 2014
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Shuo and ACSSY host Gala Celebration of Chinese New Years - see photo. Jan 2014
book Evan, Kelly and Molly Lucas publish an introductory book chapter "How to Study Smoking and Drinking with PET" Dec 2013




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Dec 2013

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Shuo Wang passes her Area Exam!
Nov 20, 2013
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Ryan Petrulli, Joe Contessa and friends have first paper accepted on imaging of mutant EGFR with 11C-erlotinib
Nov 11, 2013

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Morris lab (and Hannestad) receives NIH grant, "Endotoxin-induced inflammation affects striatal dopamine: A raclopride PET study"  Sept 2013

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Evan to run Phase 1 trial as part of multi-center consortium, "New Experimental Medicine Studies: Fast-Fail Trials in Mood and Anxiety Spectrum Disorders" Aug 2013

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Morris and Krishnan-Sarin Labs jointly receive NIH grant "PET imaging of Naltrexone Occupancy of Kappa Receptors in Heavy Drinkers" July 2013
video Morris, Cosgrove and friends publish video article on making dopamine movies in Journal of Visualized Experiments. (video) Jun 2013


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Prof. Kelly Cosgrove's work featured in NIDA online publication, "The Science of Drug Abuse and Addiction" May 2013

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Evan wins 2013 Yale Graduate Mentor Award for Natural Sciences (pics) (YouTube) (download video) (speech text) (SEAS news item)

Nice GSAS news article.
May 2013

Jenna and friends (with another friend) receive Doctoral diplomas May 20, 2013

Shuo Wang presents poster at BrainPET in Shanghai May 2013


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Successful end to Spring Semester, 2013. Read what people are saying about ENAS-915 "Tracer Kinetics
Apr 2013
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Su Jin Kim's paper on selectivity of 11C-pkab accepted for publication in J Nucl Med
Apr 2013

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Yale PET Center featured in monthly Medicine@Yale magazine. Read article here
March 2013
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Jenna's paper on limitations of conventional models for describing transient dopamine events published in AJNMMI
Jan 2013


Jenna Sullivan successfully defends PhD thesis
Dec 2012
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Successful end to Fall Semester, 2012.  Read what people are saying about ENAS-880 (2012) Dec 2012

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Morris Lab receives NIH grant for "Dynamic Dopamine Images: A New View of the Neurochemistry of Smoking" Sept 2012

Posters presented by our group at recent Neuroreceptor Mapping Meeting Aug 2012
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Evan presents "PET Talks!" on Intro to PET Analysis to packed house (video)
June 2012

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Jenna Sullivan, Su Jin Kim win Young Scientist Awards for submissions to Neuroreceptor Mapping Meeting summer 2012 in Baltimore. (Program) May 2012
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Successful end to Fall Semester, 2011.  Read what people are saying about ENAS-880 (2011) Dec 2011


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Sept 10: Evan completes "Closer to Free" 100 mile bike ride in 7:09:30 + rest stops.  Raises $1750 for Smilow Cancer Hospital. Sept 2011



Cool Images


Dopamine Multi-Movie of cigarette smoking!


Group Photos

Photo of Shuo Wang and friend at Chinese New Year's Gala January 2014

Lab photo from first cookout of 2013


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BIO
Evan D. Morris, PhD has been working in the field of PET and functional imaging  for 20 years.  He specializes in kinetic modeling of dynamic image data.  He was trained as a biomedical engineer and before that as a chemical engineer. In the past, he has taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Medical Imaging, Tracer Kinetics, Biomedical Transport, and Biomedical Ethics, among others. For more info about his past classroom teaching at Indiana University, Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), including online lectures (video and Powerpoints) for some courses, please follow the link to his IUPUI website.  Morris joined the Yale PET Center as Co-Director of the Imaging Section in the fall of 2009.


Dr Morris and his students have been working on kinetic models to estimate the dynamics of endogenous neurotransmitters from PET data.  A recent publication in Neuroimage in 2010 demonstrated a novel analysis strategy for creating the first ever “movies” of dopamine action in the living brain. The movies can be viewed here (movie of "early" finger-tapping, movie of "late" finger-tapping).  Altered neurotransmitter kinetics may explain the mechanism of addiction of some drugs.  This work  uses knowledge of numerical methods, biochemistry, image and signal processing, parameter estimation, and programming.  An earlier paper in Molecular Imaging and Biology compared the  estimates of dopamine curves from fitting models to PET data to direct microdialysis measurements.  A collection of papers to result from this project can be downloaded as a zip file here. (~8Mb)  The work was funded by the Whitaker Foundation and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.


While in Indiana, Morris and his colleagues focused much of their efforts on the use of PET to understand what makes drugs and alcohol addictive.  Their most recent publication in Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research in 2009 is here.  It represents the first demonstration in humans of the neurochemistry of reward prediction error.  This work uses knowledge of neuropsychology, image processing, experimental study design, neurochemistry, and kinetic modeling.


<>Interests
Prof. Morris is currently interested in the use of PET imaging (of people and animals) with neuroreceptor tracers to understand and improve treatments for Parkinson’s disease, alcoholism, smoking, drug abuse and cancer.

 

Current Active Projects (all use PET imaging and some type(s) of mathematical modeling)

Are kappa opiate receptors important for the treatment of alcoholism?  Are there sex-differences in the kappa receptor system?

Is there a brain pattern of dopamine activation in the brain that represents the signature of addiction to smoking cigarettes? (To marijuana?) (To other drugs of abuse?)

Are kappa antagonists viable medications for the treatment of depression?

What is the precise molecular target of the cancer drug erlotinib that is used to treat lung cancer? Can  we image the target and predict treatment outcome?

How is the pattern of dopamine activation in your brain during smoking altered by treatment?

Does stress add to the likelihood of relapse to smoking? Is dopamine the mediator of this effect?

Job Opportunities

1. Many opportunities for students to do research rotations.  If you are a BME student or an INP student and need a rotation, please email Dr Morris


Past interests of Prof Morris:

Small animal imaging. A recent paper details the design and validation of a stereotactic head-holder for imaging two rats in a PET scanner at the same time.  The paper was published in Journal of Neuroscience Methods. Get it here.

Direct reconstruction of PET data to parametric images.  This work was a collaboration with colleagues at Purdue University and used knowledge of kinetic modeling, imaging physics, optimization and algorithm design.  It yielded the first working algorithm to create parametric images of the four kinetic parameters of the two-tissue model directly from raw (sinogram) data.  The primary paper to result from this collaboration was published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and can be downloaded here.   A new publication  is currently "in press" in  IEEE TMI on this topic.


COURSE LIST

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Course Number(s)

Title  (link to course webpage)

Semester

ENAS 915
Tracer Kinetics and Modeling
Spring 2013



ENAS 880 / INP 523
Imaging Drugs in the Brain
Fall 2018
ENAS 880 / INP 523
Imaging Drugs in the Brain
Fall 2016
ENAS 880 / NSCI 523
Imaging Drugs in the Brain
Fall 2015
ENAS 880 / NSCI 523
Imaging Drugs in the Brain
Fall 2014
ENAS 880 /  NSCI 523
Imaging Drugs in the Brain
Fall 2013
ENAS 880 /  NSCI 523 Imaging Drugs in the Brain Falll 2012
ENAS 880 /  NSCI 523 Imaging Drugs in the Brain Falll 2011

ENAS 880 /  NSCI 523

Imaging Drugs in the Brain

Fall 2010




ENAS 503

Ethics and Professional Development for Biomedical Scientists and Engineers

Spring 2011




ENAS 508 (RCR)
Responsible Conduct of Research
Spring 2016
ENAS 508 (RCR)  
Responsible Conduct of Research
Spring 2017
ENAS 508 (RCR)
Responsible Conduct of Research
Spring 2018
ENAS 508 (RCR)
Responsible Conduct of Research
Spring 2019
ENAS 508 (RCR)
Responsible Conduct of Research (aka., Professional Ethics)
Spring 2020




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Trips  - and Photos

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Julia and Sujin take a ride along the Farmington canal and find the perfect sign (blue).
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Riders before an Aug 2011 training ride to prepare for Closer to Free ride
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With Stuart Basseches... somewhere along the Hudson River... on a hot-as-hell ride , July 2011. (100 mi)
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Evan and Bob ride from UConn (Storrs, CT) to Welleseley College (Wellesely, MA) June 2012 (100 mi)


Conference in New Orleans, SNM, June 2008
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Lecture in Turku, Turku PET symposium, June 2008
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           photo grid (Talin, Estonia)
Lecture in  Copenhagen METPETS consortium, June 2009
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          photo grid 2 (commuting in Copenhagen)
Lecture in Chicago, BrainPET, 2009
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Lecture  at Univ Washington, Seattle, June 2010
          photo grid - Seattle
          photo grid -  Victoria, BC
Lecture at  Univ Glasgow, July 2010
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Lecture at Bogazici University (Biomedical Institute), Istanbul, Nov 2010
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Lecture at Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, Nov 2010
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Lecture at Univ Wisconsin, Madison, Nov 2010
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Lecture at Mass General Hospital, Boston, Dec 2010



EDUCATION

BS, BS (Chemical Engineering, Biology) MIT
MS, PhD, (Biomedical Engineering) Case Western Reserve University
Postdoctoral Fellowship, (Radiological Sciences) MGH/Harvard



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