Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences

Students

    Current Trainees

  • Cecily Conour

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    PhD in Psychology (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Dr. Christina Duncan

    Training Program

    Training Program
    Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (Current Trainee)
    Training Program Advisor
    Dr. Christina Duncan
    Research Project or Topic
    adolescent involvement and adherence to treatment regimen in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease

  • Brittany Hughes, PhD

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    PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Dr. Kathleen Morrison

    Training Program

    Training Program
    Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (Current Trainee)
    Training Program Advisor
    Dr. Kathleen Morrison
    Research Project or Topic
    Understanding sex-dependent risk factors that contribute to stress-induced deficits in both psychological and physiological health outcomes

  • Jamecia James, PhD

    PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Danielle Davidov

    Training Program

    Training Program
    Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (Current Trainee)
    Research Project or Topic
    Understanding how chronic exposure to psychological and systematic stressors contributes to chronic inflammation, which can impact morbidity, mortality, and quality of life, particularly among women of color

  • Abbey Manning

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    PhD in Neuroscience (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Dr. Charlie Anderson

    Training Program

    Training Program
    Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (Current Trainee)
    Training Program Advisor
    Dr. Charlie Anderson
    Research Project or Topic
    Understanding how synaptic zinc affects sound frequency discrimination and cortical sound frequency tuning

  • Ben Menarchek

    PhD in Cellular and Integrative Physiology (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Vince Setola

    Training Program

    Training Program
    Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (Current Trainee)
    Research Project or Topic
    Identifying behaviors and brain regions relevant to substance use disorder and identifying cell types and neural circuits with relevance to substance-use-disorder-related behaviors.

  • Andrea Milstred

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    PhD in Psychology (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Dr. Melissa Blank

    Training Program

    Training Program
    Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (Current Trainee)
    Training Program Advisor
    Dr. Melissa Blank
    Research Project or Topic
    Compare the abuse liability of electronic cigarettes (ECIGs) to that of nicotine gum in never-smoking ECIG users

  • Amber Rusch, MD

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    PhD in Psychology (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Dr. Julie Patrick

    Training Program

    Training Program
    Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (Current Trainee)
    Training Program Advisor
    Dr. Julie Patrick
    Research Project or Topic
    Risk factors for cognitive decline, including examinations of adversity across the lifespan, health disparities (including aging in Appalachia), and social determinants of health as predictors of cognitive decline

  • Brittany Smith

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    PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Dr. Alfgeir Kristjansson

    Training Program

    Training Program
    Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (Current Trainee)
    Training Program Advisor
    Dr. Alfgeir Kristjansson
    Research Project or Topic
    Assess trauma related experiences among mothers in drug-use treatment and their children via the lenses of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the intergenerational transmission of trauma

  • Jacob Starkey

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    PhD in Biology (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Dr. Eric Horstick

    Training Program

    Training Program
    Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (Current Trainee)
    Training Program Advisor
    Dr. Eric Horstick
    Research Project or Topic
    Elucidating the neural and molecular mechanisms that modulate a novel critical period in larval zebrafish using ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) associated genes

    • Current Associate Scholars

  • Addie Boyd-Pratt

    PhD in Biomedical Sciences (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Charlie Anderson

  • Jacob Feldmann

    PhD in Neuroscience (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Aminata Coulibaly

  • Katya Nolder

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    PhD in Behavioral Analysis (In Progress)

    Training Program

    Training Program
    Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences (Current Associate Scholar)
    Training Program Advisor
    Dr. Karen Anderson
    Research Project or Topic
    s) Effects of Acute and Chronic Nicotine Administration on Choice of Probabilistic Outcomes

  • Rebekah Thurn

    PhD in Neuroscience (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    James Mahoney

  • Erin Wylie

    PhD in Psychology (In Progress)
    Graduate Program Advisor
    Karen Anderson

The BBS Training Program is supported by a National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) sponsored predoctoral training grant (T32 GM132494).

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