Alumni
| Name | Mentor | Dissertation Title |
Current Position |
| Gabriela Alarcón | Bonnie Nagel | Interactions between cognitive control and default mode networks in healthy adolescents: Sex differences and implications for major depressive disorder | Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh |
| Daicia Allen | Kathleen Grant | The subjective effects of ethanol in rhesus monkeys: characterizing the role of the nucleus accumbens using chemogenetics | Postdoctoral Scholar, Vanderbilt University |
| Allison Anacker |
Andrey Ryabinin |
Interactions between social relationships and alcohol drinking in prairie voles |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute |
| Ryan Bachtell |
Andrey Ryabinin |
Characterization of the Edinger-Westphal response to ethanol |
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado-Boulder |
| Anita Bechtholt |
Chris Cunningham |
Central opioid influences on conditioned ethanol reward and aversion |
Health Scientist Administrator, Program Director, Division of Treatment and Recovery Research, NIAAA |
| Ethan Beckley |
Deb Finn |
Neuroanatomical and behavioral correlates of progesterone withdrawal |
OHSU M.D. Program, Class of 2015 |
| Yosef Berlow | Bill Rooney | MRI assessment of brain ion content in methamphetamine users | Resident, General Psychiatry, Brown Alpert Medical School |
| Stephen L. Boehm, II |
Tamara Phillips |
GABA-B receptor modulation of ethanol-stimulated locomotor activity |
Associate Professor of Psychology; Director, Neuroscience Undergraduate Program; Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis |
| Janel Boyce-Rustay |
Chris Cunningham |
The role of NMDA receptor binding sites in ethanol's hedonic properties |
Regulatory Affairs, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA |
| Jennifer Buckman |
Charles Meshul |
Glutamatergic involvement in ethanol withdrawal convulsion susceptibility and resistance |
Assistant Research Professor, Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University |
| Julia Chester |
Chris Cunningham |
Effects of GABAergic compounds on ethanol-induced conditioned place preference and taste aversion in mice |
Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Science, Purdue University |
| Ronnie Dhaher |
Robert Hitzemann and Deb Finn |
Determining the role of the extended amygdala in regulating alcohol consumption in C57BL/6J (B6) mice |
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University |
| Brett Dufour | Jodi McBride | The role of glucocorticoids and the anterior cingulate cortex in Huntington's disease symptomology and therapeutics | Senior Fellow Trainee, University of Washington |
| William Giardino |
Andrey Ryabinin |
The centrally projecting Edinger-Westphal nucleus: Midbrain neuropeptide control of excessive alcohol intake |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University |
| Christina Gremel |
Chris Cunningham |
Involvement of the amygdala and nucleus accumbens in ethanol-conditioned place preference. |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Section on In Vivo Neural Function, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, NIAAA/NIH |
| Bill Griesar |
Barry Oken |
Cognitive effects of nicotine in non-smokers |
Senior Instructor, Psychology, Portland State University; Adjunct Instructor, University Studies, Portland State University; Adjunct Instructor, Behavioral Neuroscience, OHSU; Neuroscience Coordinator, nwnoggin.org |
| Peter Groblewski |
Chris Cunningham |
Extinction of ethanol-seeking behavior: The role of ERK signaling and mPFC circuitry in extinction of ethanol-induced conditioned place preference in mice |
Scientist I, Allen Institute for Brain Science |
| Noah Gubner | Tamara Richards | The effects of nicotine and varenicline on ethanol reward and neuroadaptation | Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education |
| Heather Hain |
John Belknap |
Quantitative trait loci analysis of baseline nociceptive sensitivity and morphine-induced antinociception in the writhing assay |
Director, Behavioral Pharmacology, PsychoGenics |
| Rebecca Hammond |
Robert Stackman |
SK channel regulation of hippocampal function |
Scientist, Seaside Therapeutics |
| John Harkness | Tamara Phillips | Trace amine associated receptor 1 regulation of methamphetamine intake and aversion | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Washington State University Vancouver, Barbara Sorg lab |
| Christa Helms |
Suzanne Mitchell |
Adaptation of choice behavior in concurrent chains schedules and the role of the basolateral amygdala |
Staff Scientist, Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center |
| Skyla Herod |
Judy Cameron |
Individual differences in adrenal axis activity and stress sensitivity in female cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) |
Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Azusa Pacific University |
| Helen Kamens |
Tamara Phillips |
Multidisciplinary approaches examining the genetic basis of drug-induced locomotor stimulation |
Assistant Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University |
| Josh Kaplan |
David Rossi |
The cerebellar GABAA receptor contribution to alcohol intake and intoxication |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Bill Catterall, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology at the University of Washington. |
| Christopher Kliethermes |
John Crabbe |
Genetic influences on mouse measures of novelty seeking and drug abuse |
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Drake University |
| Lessov-Schlagger, Christina |
Tamara Phillips |
Behavioral assessment of common determinants of drug and ethanol-induced sensitization and the role of ethanol-induced sensitization in voluntary ethanol drinking and ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion |
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine |
| Jennifer Loftis |
Aaron Janowsky |
The effects of cocaine treatment and withdrawal on NMDA receptor subunits and associated neuronal proteins |
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University |
| Megan McClintick | Kathleen Grant | Relationship between temperament, resting state functional connectivity, and heavy drinking in cynomolgus and rhesus macaques | Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Neuroimaging, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA |
| Whitney McGee |
Cynthia Bethea & Judy Cameron |
Effects of testosterone levels on reproductive neuroendocrine function and behavior in female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). |
Veterinary School Student, Colorado State University |
| Paul Meyer |
Tamara Phillips |
Neurochemical substrates of ethanol's locomotor effects |
Assistant Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo SUNY |
| Travis Moschak | Suzanne Mitchell | The role of ethanol and neuroanatomical regions in sensitivity to delay and sensitivity to magnitude of reward | Postdoctoral Fellow, Behavioral & Integrative Neuroscience Program, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Trisha Pruis |
Jeri Janowsky |
Body image regulation in women |
Business Development Associate, Office of Technology Transfer & Business Development, OHSU |
| Marcia Ramaker |
Deb Finn |
The effect of a neuroactive steroid analog and an extrasynaptic GABAA receptor agonist on ethanol self-administration in rats |
Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago in the laboratory of Dr. Stephanie Dulawa |
| David Roalf |
Jeri Janowsky |
It's not fair: Behavioral and neural evidence that equity influences social economic decisions in healthy older adults |
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania |
| Nathan Rustay |
John Crabbe |
Genetic and pharmacological characterization of rapid tolerance to the ataxic effects of ethanol in mice |
Senior Medical Writer, Global Medical Publishing, Abbott Laboratories |
| Hideki Sakamoto |
Daniel Hatton |
The effects of desipramine and fluoxetine on discriminative heart rate conditioning in restrained rats |
Director / Head Oncology Scientific Affairs, Oncocolgy Science Unit MSD K.K. (Merck & Co., Inc. Japan) |
| David Salat |
Jeri Janowsky |
Selective neural and cognitive alterations in the prefrontal cortex with healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease |
Assistant Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiology; Director, Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center, Boston VA Healthcare System |
| Monique Smith | Andrey Ryabinin | Social transfer of pain in mice | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry, Stanford University |