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• Dr. Alfredo Ghezzi is a faculty member in the Department of Biology at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, since 2016. His interests revolve around the molecular basis of neural adaptation. In his laboratory, he strives to resolve how the nervous system utilizes a finite number of genes to carefully modulate its activity and adapt to an ever-changing environment through the integration of molecular genetics, behavioral analyses, and neurophysiology in a Drosophila model system. A central component of this effort is directed at understanding the mechanisms of transcriptional memory that perpetuate adaptations to drugs, such as alcohol, and how these adaptations result in addictive behaviors.