Andrea Morgan

• Advisors: Dr. Mary Heinricher & Dr. Andrey Ryabinin
• Dissertation: "Pain-related behavior and potential confounds in the study of laboratory animals"
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Sydney Weber Boutros

• Advisors: Drs. Jacob Raber & Vivek Unni
• Thesis: "Exploring DNA double strand breaks as an underlying mechanism of learning and the influence of apolipoprotein E"
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Boise State University
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John Mootz

• Advisor: Dr. Tamara Phillips Richards
• Thesis: "Mechanistic correlates of selective breeding for methamphetamine intake"
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Sheena Potretzke

• Advisor: Dr. Andrey Ryabinin
• Thesis: "Behavioral and molecular characterization of oxytocin's effect on alcohol consumption"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, OHSU Behavioral Neuroscience
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Gail Stonebarger

• Advisor: Dr. Henryk Urbanski
• Thesis: "Clinically driven characterization of pathological and non-pathological brain aging in the rhesus macaque model: impact of caloric restriction"
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Sylvie Bindas (Terminal Master's Degree)

• Advisor: Vincent Costa
• Thesis: "Expected uncertainty drives tonic exploration during probabilistic learning in rhesus-macaques"
• Current Position: Neuroscience Researcher at the University of Minnesota
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Samantha Friedrich

• Advisor: Claudio Mello
• Thesis: "Molecular Bases of excitability and sexual dimorphism in the zebra finch song system"
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David Jacobs

• Advisor: Bita Moghaddam
• Thesis: "Assessing the role of the rodent prefrontal cortex in anxiety during reward seeking"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, OHSU Behavioral Neuroscience
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Mollie Marr

• Advisor: Alice Graham and Damien Fair
• Dissertation: "Intergenerational Transmission of Childhood
  Maltreatment: Characterizing Potential Mechanisms and Offspring Neurobehavioral Outcomes"
• Currently enrolled in medical school at OHSU
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Lauren Mueller

• Advisor: Bita Moghaddam
• Dissertation: "Lost in States: effects of cocaine experience on neural representations supporting decision making"
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Elina Thomas

• Advisor: Alice Graham and Damien Fair
• Dissertation: "Emotion Regulation: Neural correlates soon after birth and implications for future behavior"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, University of Vermont
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Nadir Balba

• Advisor: Mary Heinricher and Miranda Lim
• Dissertation: "Photosensitivity and Pain in Traumatic Brain Injury"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oregon Health & Sciences University
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Eileen Ruth S. Torres

• Advisor: Jacob Raber
• Dissertation: "Role of Apolipoprotein E lsoform in Stress-related Changes in Behavior and Cognition"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Weill Cornell Medicine
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Brittany Alperin

• Advisor: Joel Nigg and Sarah Karalunas
• Dissertation: "How the mind wanders in ADHD and why is matters"
• Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Richmond
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Calla Goeke

• Advisor: Marina Guizzetti
• Dissertation: "Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: alteration of neuronal morphology by ethanol, choline and tissue plasminogen activator"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester Medical Center
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Rebecca Hood

• Advisor: Charles Meshul
• Dissertation: "The role of cortical disinhibition in a progressive mouse model of parkinson’s disease"
• Current Position: Grants & Outcomes Specialist, Horizon CME, Portland, OR
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Nicholas Miner

• Advisor: Aaron Janowsky
• Dissertation: "The modulatory role of TAAR1 in neurotoxicity of substituted amphetamines"

Bene Ramirez

• Advisor: Damien Fair
• Dissertation: "Maternal Nutrition and Inflammation as a Risk Factor for Future Mental Health Disorders"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for the Developing Brain at the Child Mind Institute
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Andre Walcott

• Advisor: Andrey Ryabinin
• Dissertation: "The Relationship between Sociality and Alcohol Consumption in the Prairie Vole Rodent Model"
• Current Position: Scientific Program Manager Scholar, Oregon Health & Science University
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Alfredo Zuniga

• Advisor: Andrey Ryabinin
• Dissertation: "Characterization of the Role of the Centrally-projecting Edinger-Westphal Nucleus in Ethanol-seeking Behaviors"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
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Daicia Allen

• Advisor: Kathleen Grant
• Dissertation: "The subjective effects of ethanol in rhesus monkeys: characterizing the role of the nucleus accumbens using chemogenetics"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Vanderbilt University
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Brett Dufour

• Advisor: Jodi McBride
• Dissertation: "Neuronal Synchrony is Driven by Interval States Correlated with Goal-Directed Behavior in the Auditory Coretex of Rats"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington
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Brian Mills

• Advisor: Damien Fair
• Dissertation: "Resting State Functional Connectivity MRI in the Rodent Brain: Applications to Human Disease"
• Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University

Christie Pizzimenti

• Advisor: Matt Lattal
• Dissertation: "Exploring the use of histone deacetylase inhibitors in treatiang rodent models of post-tramatic stress disorder and addiction"
• Current Postion: Project Manager, OHSU
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Amy Williams

• Advisor: Matt Lattal
• Dissertation: "Rapid Reacquisition of Contextual Fear Conditioning: The Behavior, Interaction with Alcohol, and Neurobiology"
• Current Position: Associate Project Manager, Suvoda
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Leah Hitchcock

• Advisor: Matt Lattal
• Dissertation: "Involvement in the dorsal hippocampus and histone deacetylase 3 in reward-seeking behaviors"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Colorado
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Vanessa Jimenez

• Advisor: Kathleen Grant
• Dissertation: "The relationship between stress and ethanol self administration: Circulating stress hormones and glutamate signaling in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, OHSU
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Gabriela Alarcon

• Advisor: Bonnie Nagel
• Dissertation: "Interactions between Cognitive Control and Default Mode Networks in Healthy Adolescents: Sex Differences and Implications for Major Depressive Disorder"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Pittsburgh
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Dominique Eghlidi

• Advisor: Henryk Urbanski
• Dissertation: "Age-related changes in the rhesus monkey hypothalamus"
• Current Position: Research Fellow in Neurology, Harvard University
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Megan McClintick

• Advisor: Kathleen Grant
• Dissertation: "Relationship between temperament, resting state functional connectivity, and heavy drinking in cynomolgus and rhesus macaques"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Melanie Pina

• Advisor: Chris Cunningham
• Dissertation: "Regulation of Ethanol Seeking by the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis and the Ventral Tegmental Area: Evidence for a Direct Neural Circuit"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina
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Monique Smith

• Advisor: Andrey Ryabinin
• Dissertation: "Social Transfer of Pain in the Mouse"
• Current Postion: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Morgan Wirthlin

• Advisor: Claudio Mello
• Dissertation: "Evolutionary Neurogenomic Approaches Provide Insight into the Molecular Basis of Vocal Learning"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
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Amanda Barkley-Levenson

• Advisor: John Crabbe
• Dissertation: "Behavioral and neurobiological correlates of genetic risk for binge-like alcohol drinking"
• Current Position: Post doctoral Fellowship, UC San Diego (UCSD)
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Emily Eastwood

• Advisor: Tamara Phillips
• Dissertation: "Opioid pathways in methamphetamine intake"
• Current Position: Research Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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John Harkness

• Advisor: Tamara Phillips
• Dissertation: "Trace amine-associated receptor 1 regulation of methamphetamine intake and aversion"
• Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, Washington State University
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Joshua Kaplan

• Advisor: David Rossi
• Dissertation: "Cerebellar GABAA receptor contributions to alcohol intake and intoxication"
• Current Position: Postdoc, University of Washington
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Lauren Kruse

• Advisor: Kari Buck
• Dissertation: "The role of MPDZ in ethanol withdrawal but not binge-like ethanol drinking"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington
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Anthony Abraham

• Advisor: Matt Lattal
• Dissertation: "The Role of Dopamine D1/5 Receptors in Fear and Reward"
• Current Position: Post Doc, University of Washington
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Yosef Berlow

• Advisor: William Rooney
• Dissertation: "MRI Assessment of Brain Iron Content in Methamphetamine Users"
• Current Position: Psychiatry Resident, Brown Medical School
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Noah Gubner

• Advisor: Tamara Phillips
• Dissertation: "The effects of nicotine and varenicline on ethanol reward and neuroadaptation"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC San Francisco (UCSF)
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Travis Moschak

• Advisor: Suzanne Mitchell
• Dissertation: "The role of ethanol and neuroanatomical regions in sensitivity to delay and sensitivity to magnitude of reward"
• Current Position: Post Doc, University of North Carolina
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Marcia Ramaker

• Advisor: Deborah Finn
• Dissertation: "The effect of a neuroactive steroid analog and an extrasynaptic GABA(A) receptor agonist on ethanol consumption and seeking in mice"
• Current Position: Post Doc, UC San Diego (UCSD)
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Irina Chamine

• Advisor: Barry Oken
• Dissertation: "Physiological, cognitive, and expectancy effects of aromatherapy following acute stress"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, OHSU
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Anita Cservenka

• Advisor: Bonnie Nagel
• Dissertation: "Emotional Processing and Brain Activity in Youth at High Risk for Alcoholism"
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
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William Giardino

• Advisor: Andrey Ryabinin
• Dissertation: "The centrally projecting Edinger-Westphal Nucleus: Midbrain neuropeptide control of excessive alcohol intake"
• Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Krystina Sorwell

• Advisor: Henryk Urbanski 
• Dissertation: "Cognition and steroidogenesis in the Rhesus Macaque"
• Current Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Portland
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Allison Anacker

• Advisor: Andrey Ryabinin
• Dissertation: "Interactions between social relationships and alcohol drinking in prairie voles"
• Current Position: Lecturer, University of Vermont
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Lauren Dobbs

• Advisor: Chris Cunningham
• Dissertation: "The role of laterodorsal tegmental acetylcholine in neurochemical and behavioral measures of methamphetamine reward"
• Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health
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Megan Herting

• Advisor: Bonnie Nagel
• Dissertation: "The influence of aerobic exercise on hippocammpal structure and function in adolescents"
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Southern California (USC)
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Lindsey Leigland

• Advisor: Chris Kroenke
• Dissertation: "MRI detection of early-stage cerebral cortical abnormalities caused by fetal exposure to alcohol"
• Current Position: Neurosciences Portfolio Lead, Providence Health and Services
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Whitney McGee

• Advisor: Cynthia Bethea
• Dissertation: "Effects of elevated testosterone levels on reproductive neuroendocrine function and behavior in female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)"
• Current Position: Comparative Veterinary Medicine Resident, Colorado State University
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James Stafford

• Advisor: Matt Lattal
• Dissertation: "Behavioral, molecular and neurobiological processes underlying memory retrieval"
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU
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Frederick Franken

• Advisor: Aaron Janowsky 
• Dissertation: "Characterization of in vitro and in vivo responses to dsRNA in a mouse model of prenatal infection"
• Current Position: Scientist, Jubilant HollisterStier LLC
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Peter Groblewski

• Advisor: Chris Cunningham
• Dissertation: "Extinction of ethanol-seeking behavior: The role of ERK signaling and mPFC circuitry in extinction of ethanol-induced conditioned place preference in mice"
• Current Position: Manager, Neurosurgery & Behavior, Allen Institute for Brain Science
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Angela Scibelli

• Advisor: Tamara Phillips
• Dissertation: "A role for the muscarinic acetylcholinergic system in sensitivity to ethanol's stimulant effects"
• Current Position: Adjunct Professor at Large, Colorado College
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Jessica Siegel

• Advisor: Jacob Raber
• Dissertation: "The effects of methamphetamine exposure during brain development on the cholinergic system and cognition in mice"
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Sewanee University of the South
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Laura Villasana

• Advisor: Jacob Raber
• Dissertation: "The role of apolipoprotein E isoform and reactive oxygen species on the cognitive function of female mice following cranial irradiation"
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, OHSU
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Katherine Kaufman

• Advisor: Deborah Finn
• Dissertation: "The effects of neuroactive steroids on acute ethanol withdrawal in mice"
• Current Position: Senior IACUC Compliance Manager - Stanford University, Stanford University
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Lauren Milner

• Advisor: Kari Buck
• Dissertation: "The Roles of Mpdz and Kcnj9 in Ethanol Withdrawal: Pleiotropic Effects and Potential Mechanisms"
• Current Position: Health Science Policy Analyst, National Institutes of Health
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Trisha Pruis

• Advisor: Jeri Janowsky
• Dissertation: "Body Image Regulation in Women"
• Current Position: Alliance Manager, School of Med. Strategic Partnerships & Brenden-Colson Center for Pancreatic Care, OHSU
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David Roalf

• Advisor: Jeri Janowsky
• Dissertation: "It's not fair: Behavioral and neural evidence that equity influences social economic decisions in healthy older adults"
• Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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Ethan Beckley

• Advisor: Deborah Finn
• Dissertation: "Neuroanatomical and Behavioral Correlates of Progesterone Withdrawal"
• Current Postion: Psychiatry Resident, OHSU
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Theodore Benice

• Advisor: Jacob Raber
• Dissertation: "The role of Androgens in cognitive performance in adulthood and aging"
• Current Position: Director of Research and Development, BTW Labs
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Rick Bernardi

• Advisor: S. Paul Berger
• Dissertation: "The role of adrenergic receptors in the potential reconsolidation of a cocaine conditioned place preference"
• Current Position: Staff, Central Institute of Mental Health (Zentralinstitut fur Seelische Gesundeit)
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Skyla Herod

• Advisor: Judy Cameron
• Dissertation: "Individual Differences in Adrenal Axis Activity and Stress Sensitivity in Female Cynomolgus Monkeys (Macaca fascicularis)"
• Current Position: Associate Professor, Azusa Pacific University
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Ronnie Dhaher

• Advisor: Robert Hitzemann
• Dissertation: "Determining the role of the extended amygdale in regulating alcohol consumption in C57BL/6J mice"
• Current Position: Associate Research Scientist, Yale University
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Christina Gremel

• Advisor: Chris Cunningham
• Dissertation: "Involvement of the amygdale and nucleus accumbens in ethanol-conditioned reinforcement in mice"
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, UC San Diego (UCSD)
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Stephen Hansen

• Advisor: Gregory Mark
• Dissertation: "Nicotinic Cholinergic Reeptros and Cocaine Reward"
• Current Position: Investigator, Federal Drug Administration (FDA)
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Sarah Holstein

• Advisor: Tamara Phillips
• Dissertation: "Contribution of GABA-B receptors to acute ethanol sensitivity and as a pharmacotherapeutic target"
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lycoming College
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