Current Trainees

  • Stephen Cullinan

    Graduate Degree
    PhD in Psychology
  • Jenna Luthman

    Graduate Degree
    PhD in Biology
  • Ben Menarchek

    Graduate Degree
    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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    Graduate Degree
    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
  • Lindsey Morais

    Graduate Degree
    MD/PhD Program
  • Marissa Nicodemus

    Graduate Degree
    PhD in Psychology
  • Jacob Starkey

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    Graduate Degree
    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

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