Education

Ph.D., Central Michigan University, 2010

Research focus

Neurobiology and neurocircuitry of Addiction; Physiological and molecular (e.g. transcription, ER function) mechanisms underlying motivated behavior; Animal behavioral models of addiction; Ex vivo electrophysiology in brain slices and in vivo calcium imaging; Neurocircuit manipulation approaches, including recombinant viruses & transgenic mouse models

Publications