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Joaquin N. Lugo  Ph.D.


Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

EDUCATION

1999-04 Ph.D.

                        Major: Behavioral Neuroscience

                        Dissertation Title: Effect of Perinatal Ethanol Exposure on Mu and Delta Receptors and Met-

Enkephalin Levels of the Adult Rat

1999-01 Master’s of Arts, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Major:  Behavioral Neuroscience

Master’s Thesis Title: Effect of Perinatal Ethanol Exposure on the Amygdala Nuclei Volume

Using Unbiased Stereology

 

1994-99            Bachelor of Science, Baylor University

                        Major: Neuroscience 1999

HONORS

 

2005-2008         Society for Neuroscience Scholar

01/05-Present    NINDS Minority Supplement Award; Sponsor: John Swann

8/00-7/04          Predoctoral NRSA Fellowship “Alcohol Exposure, Social behavior, and The Amygdala”;

Sponsor: Sandra Jean Kelly.

4/01                  Research Society on Alcoholism Student Merit/ Junior Investigator Award.

4/99                  Recipient of the Southwestern Psychological Association award for Most Outstanding

Undergraduate Presentation at SWPA conference in Albuquerque, NM.

4/99                  Recipient of the Baylor University Psychology and Neuroscience Department's Neuroscience

Award for Most Outstanding Graduate.

4/99                  Recipient of the Baylor University Psychology and Neuroscience Department's Neuroscience

Award for Service.

6/98 - 8/98        Recipient of a National Science Foundation grant for research in Psychology at Furman

University in Greenville, SC for the Furman Undergraduate Research Program.

4/17/98 Recipient of a Travel Award for the "Affective Neuroscience Symposium" at the University of

Wisconsin-Madison.

4/28/98 Recipient of the Baylor University Psychology and Neuroscience Department's Neuroscience

Award for Service.

PUBLICATIONS

Lugo Jr., J. N., Barnwell, L. F., Johnston, L. D., Kim, R., Feng, C., Hrachovy, R. A., Sweatt, J. D., & Anderson, A. E. (In Preparation). ERK phosphorylation of the A-type K+ channel, Kv4.2 in status epilepticus. Epilepsia.

Lugo Jr., J. N., Wilson, M. A., Kelly, S. J. (In Press). Perinatal ethanol exposure alters met-enkephalin levels of male and female rats. Neurotoxicology & Teratology.

Lugo Jr., J. N., Marino, M. D. Gass, J. T., Wilson, M. A., & Kelly, S. J.  (In Press). Alcohol exposure during development reduces resident aggression and testosterone in rats. Physiology & Behavior.

Wilson, M. A., Burghardt, P. R., Lugo Jr., J. N., Primeaux, S. D., Wilson, S. P. (2003). Effect of amygdalar opioids on the anxiolytic properties of ethanol. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (986): The Amygdala in Brain Function: Basic and Clinical Approach., 472-475.

Lugo Jr., J. N., Marino, M D., Cronise, K., Kelly, S. J. (2003). Effects of alcohol exposure during development on social behavior in rats. Physiology and Behavior, 78(2), 185-194.

Marino, M., Cronise, K., Lugo, J. N., & Kelly, S. J. (2002).  Ultrasonic Vocalizations and Maternal-Infant Interactions in a Rat Model of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Developmental Psychobiology, 41(4), 341-351.


Contact Information:

Joaquin N. Lugo  Ph.D.
The Cain Foundation Laboratories
The Feigin Center, Suite 955 MC 3-6365
1102 Bates Street
Houston, Texas 77030
Tel: 832-824-4751
Email:
jlugo@bcm.tmc.edu

 

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