Principal Investigator
Postdoc; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mentor: Dr. Regina Carelli
Ph.D., Psychological & Brain Sciences; Johns Hopkins University. Advisors: Dr. Michela Gallagher, Dr. Peter Holland
Sc.B., Cognitive Neuroscience; Brown University. Honors Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Burwell
michael.saddoris@colorado.edu
Ph.D. Student
NIH-Postbaccalaureate Research Education Scholar (PREP); Brown University. Advisor: Dr. Alexander Jaworski
B.A., Psychology; California State University San Marcos. Advisor: Dr. Kimberly D’Anna-Hernandez
Research Focus: The effects of early life stress on fear and reward learning
NIH-Diversity Supplement Grant Awardee
jhair.torres@colorado.edu
Professional Research Assistant
B.A. Neuroscience & Psychology; University of Colorado Boulder
elise dot warnock at colorado dot edu
Graduate Student
Research Assistant, Jin Lab, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA
Research Coordinator, Seibert Lab, Saint Alphonsus Medical Center Physician Research, Boise, ID
B.S. Psychology, Boise State University, Boise, ID, Supervised by: Dr. Pennie Seibert
Research Focus: TBD
elwi9312 at colorado dot edu
Graduate Student
M.Sc. Psychological Research; University of Oxford; Advisor: Professor Nick Yeung
B.A. Psychology, B.A. Justice & Law; American University; Advisor: Dr. Anthony Riley
Research Technician, Rice Laboratory, New York University: New York, NY, Supervised by: Professor Margaret Rice
Research Focus: Investigations of the neural circuits contributing to stress controllability and their influence on drug seeking behavior
Supported by NIDA Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA F31 (to KAS), NIDA R01 (MPS) and NARSAD Young Investigator (MPS)
kayla dot siletti at colorado dot edu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. Neuroscience; University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder CO. Advisor: Dr. Ryan Bachtell
B.S., Psychology; College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. Honors Advisor: Dr. Ron See (MUSC)
Research Focus: Circuit-level investigations of adenosine signaling; Development of novel drug self-administration models to assess drug/stress interactions
Supported by NARSAD Young Investigator (to MPS), NIDA R01 (MPS) and NIDA R21 (MPS and Ryan Bachtell)
kyle dot brown at colorado dot edu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. Neuroscience & Behavior; University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. Advisor: Dr. Matthew A. Cooper
M.A., Behavioral Neuroscience/Psychology, minor in Experimental Statistics; Baylor University, Waco, TX. Advisor: Dr. N. Bradley Keele
B.A., Psychology, minor in Sociology; Harding University, Searcy, AR
Research Focus: Stress susceptibility and resilience in social dominance/defeat
Supported by NIDA R01 (to MPS)
j dot alex dot grizzell at colorado dot edu
Lab Manager/ Professional Research Assistant
B.S. Neuroscience and Developmental Psychology; Emmanuel College; Advisor: Melanie Leussis
madison dot hillman at colorado dot edu
Major: Neuroscience
Awards:
McNair Scholar
SMART Scholar
SR-EIP Leadership Alliance Recipient
Graduate Student
M.A. Psychology; University of Colorado Boulder
B.S. Business Administration; Universidad Interamericana de Costa Rica
Research Focus: Assessment of how developmental and early life stress affect neural signaling and contribute to behavioral phenotypes in adulthood
Supported by NARSAD Young Investigator Award (to MPS)
bercum at colorado dot edu
Double Neuroscience and Psychology Major (Senior)
Awards: BSI Scholar (2019-)
UROP Individual Grant (Summer 2020)
Neuroscience Major (Senior)
Awards: Boettcher Scholar (2017-21)
UROP Assistantship (Summer 2020)
Neuroscience major (Public health minor; Senior)
Awards: BSI Scholar (2019-20)
UROP Assistantship (Summer 2020)
Lab Manager (2018-2020)
B.A., Neuroscience; University of Colorado Boulder. Honors Advisor: Dr. Ryan Bachtell
maria dot navarro at colorado dot edu
M.A. Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, 2019
Research Focus: Relative and interactive contributions of limbic inputs to the NAc to motivation learning and action
B.S. Neuroscience, Minor in Pure Mathematics; University of Vermont. Advisor: Dr. John T Green
Research Assistant and Lab Manager, Dr. Kyle Smith, Dartmouth College
katherine dot stansfield at colorado dot edu
Professional Research Associate (PRA) (2014-2018)
B.A., Psychology, University of Southern Illinois
Currently: Masters studies in Science Policy, University of Indiana
Undergraduate Research (2017-19)
Dual Major: Neuroscience & MCDB
Awards: Outstanding Arts & Science Undergraduate; Latin Honors (2019); Thesis: “Investigating the Effects of Cocaine Experience on Dopaminergic and Glutamatergic Inputs to the Nucleus Accumbens using Optical Self-administration”
Biological Sciences Initiative (BSI) Scholar (2018)
BSI Scholar (2019)
UROP scholarship (2019)
Undergraduate Researcher (2018-19)
Dual Major: Neuroscience & MCDB (2019)
Awards: Latin Honors (2019); Thesis: “Structural connectomic mapping of dorsal striatum using antibody-conjugated gold nanoparticles and X-ray microscopy.”
Beckman Scholar (2018-9)
David E Drutz Scholarship (2019)
Collins LT & Saddoris MP (2019). Structural connectomic mapping of dorsal striatum using antibody-conjugated gold nanoparticles and X-ray microscopy. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago IL.
Undergraduate Researcher (2019-20)
Co-mentored with Dr. Serge Campeau
Neuroscience Major (senior)
Philosophy minor
UROP scholarship 2019 (with Campeau)
Undergraduate Researcher (2016-2018)
Awards:
Departmental Leadership Award (2019)
Undergraduate selected for oral presentation at the annual Rocky Mountain Research in Neuroscience Group (CU Anschutz Medical School)
Undergraduate Researcher (2015-2016)
B.A., Neuroscience; University of Colorado Boulder
Research Technician: Dr. Richard Axel, Columbia University (2016-8)
Current: Graduate Student, University of California Berkeley. Advisor: Dr. Helen Bateup
