Justin Courson, Ph.D.

Instructor

Email

courson@bcm.edu

Positions

Instructor: Medicine
Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Research Health Science Specialist: Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases (CTRID)
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Houston, Texas, United States

Education

PhD from University of Houston: 05/2021 - Houston, Texas, United States; Physiological Optics & Vision Science

Websites

Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases (CTRID)

CTRID LinkedIn

Selected Publications

Cozzoli DK, Courson JA, Wroten MG, Greentree DI, Lum EN, Campbell RR, Thompson AB, Maliniak D, Worley PF, Jonquieres G, Klugmann M, Finn DA, Szumlinski KK. " Binge alcohol drinking by mice requires intact group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptor signaling within the central nucleus of the amygdala " Neuropsychopharmacology. 2014 Jan ;
Pubmed PMID: 23966068.
Hargrave A, Courson JA, Pham V, Landry P, Magadi S, Shankar P, Hanlon S, Das A, Rumbaut RE, Smith CW, Burns AR. " Corneal dysfunction precedes the onset of hyperglycemia in a mouse model of diet-induced obesity " PLoS One. 2020 Sep ;
Pubmed PMID: 32886728.
Reins RY, Courson JA, Lema C, Redfern RL. " MyD88 contribution to ocular surface homeostasis " PLoS One. 2017 Aug ;
Pubmed PMID: 28796783.
Reins RY, Lema C, Courson JA, Kunnen CME, Redfern RL. " MyD88 Deficiency Protects Against Dry Eye-Induced Damage " Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2018 Jun ;
Pubmed PMID: 30025110.
d. Cozzoli DK, Courson JA, Caruana AL, Miller BW, Greentree DI, Thompson AB, Wroten MG, Zhang PW, Xiao B, Hu JH, Klugmann M, Metten P, Worley PF, Crabbe JC, Szumlinski KK. " Nucleus accumbens mGluR5-associated signaling regulates binge alcohol drinking under drinking-in-the-dark procedures " Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2012 Sep ;
Pubmed PMID: 22432643.
Szumlinski KK, Ary AW, Shin CB, Wroten MG, Courson JA, Miller BW, Ruppert-Majer M, Hiller JW, Shahin JR, Ben-Shahar O, Kippin TE. " PI3K activation within ventromedial prefrontal cortex regulates the expression of drug-seeking in two rodent species " Addict Biol. 2019 Nov ;
Pubmed PMID: 6849400.
De La Cruz A, Hargrave A, Magadi S, Courson JA, Landry PT, Zhang W, Lam FW, Bray MA, Smith CW, Burns AR, Rumbaut RE. " Platelet and Erythrocyte Extravasation across Inflamed Corneal Venules Depends on CD18, Neutrophils, and Mast Cell Degranulation " Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021 May ;
Pubmed PMID: 34298979.
Cozzoli DK, Courson JA, Rostock C, Campbell RR, Wroten MG, McGregor H, Caruana AL, Miller BW, Hu JH, Wu Zhang P, Xiao B, Worley PF, Crabbe JC, Finn DA, Szumlinski KK. " Protein Kinase C Epsilon Activity in the Nucleus Accumbens and Central Nucleus of the Amygdala Mediates Binge Alcohol Consumption " Biol Psychiatry. 2016 Mar ;
Pubmed PMID: 25861702.
Courson JA, Landry PT, Do T, Spehlmann E, Lafontant PJ, Patel N, Rumbaut RE, Burns AR. " Serial Block-Face Scanning Electron Microscopy (SBF-SEM) of Biological Tissue Samples " J. Vis. Exp. 2021 Mar ;
Pubmed PMID: 33843931.
a. Courson JA, Smith I, Do T, Landry PT, Hargrave A, Behzad AR, Hanlon SD, Rumbaut RE, Smith CW, Burns AR. " Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy reveals neuronal-epithelial cell fusion in the mouse cornea " PLoS One. 2019 Nov ;
Pubmed PMID: 31721785.
a. Courson JA, Hanlon SD, Bray MA, Lam FW, Burns AR, Rumbaut RE. " Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy: A provocative technique to define 3-dimensional ultrastructure of microvascular thrombosis " Thromb Res. 2020 Dec ;
Pubmed PMID: 33099176.
Justin A Courson, Kimberly W Langlois, Fong W Lam. " Intravital Microscopy to Study Platelet-Leukocyte-Endothelial Interactions in the Mouse Liver " J Vis Exp. 2022 Oct 6;
Pubmed PMID: 36282718.
Justin A Courson, Fong W Lam, Kimberly W Langlois, Rolando E Rumbaut. " Histone-stimulated platelet adhesion to mouse cremaster venules in vivo is dependent on von Willebrand factor " Microcirculation. 2022 Nov 29;
Pubmed PMID: 36056797.

Funding

Platelets and Microvascular Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury #IK2 BX006462: (07/01/2024 - 06/30/2029); Grant funding from Department of Veterans Affairs; VA BLR&D Career Development Award

Collaborative Research Training in Thrombosis and Inflammation #HL139425: (06/22/2021 - 06/21/2023); Grant funding from NIH/NHLBI; T32 Postdoctoral Training Fellowship