Area of research
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience · Behavioral Neuroscience
Research interest
Research interests include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Tryptophan and brain disorders, and Gut microbiota and health.
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor acts through calcium-permeable AMPA receptors to potentiate cocaine reward
Brief exposure to oral antibiotics has age-dependent effects on morphine reward and gene expression in the medial prefrontal cortex of adolescent and adult mice
Gut microbiome depletion modulates cocaine-induced behavioral and transcriptional responses in female mice
Brief disruption of the microbiome has age-dependent effects on morphine reward and gene expression in the medial prefrontal cortex of adolescent and adult mice
Colony-stimulating factor 2 (CSF2) as a gut microbiome dependent immune factor that alters molecular and behavioral responses to cocaine in male mice
Microbial short-chain fatty acids regulate drug seeking and transcriptional control in a model of cocaine seeking
Microbiome Depletion Increases Fentanyl Self-Administration and Alters the Striatal Proteome Through Short-Chain Fatty Acids
Dietary polyphenols drive dose-dependent behavioral and molecular alterations to repeated morphine
Microbial short-chain fatty acids regulate drug seeking and transcriptional control in a model of cocaine seeking
Changes in gut microbiome composition drive fentanyl intake and striatal proteomic changes
Dietary polyphenols drive alterations in behavior, transcriptional regulation, and commensal microbiota in models of opioid use
Alterations in microbiome composition and metabolic byproducts drive behavioral and transcriptional responses to morphine
Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor Reduces Cocaine-Seeking and Downregulates Glutamatergic Synaptic Proteins in Medial Prefrontal Cortex
Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor reduces cocaine-seeking and downregulates glutamatergic synaptic proteins in medial prefrontal cortex
The gut microbiome and its metabolites are necessary for morphine reward
Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor Alters the Pharmacodynamic Properties of Cocaine in Female Mice
Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor Enhances Reward Learning through Potentiation of Mesolimbic Dopamine System Function