Title: Understanding sex differences in traumatic stress reactivity
Granting Agency: INBRE
Description of award: The goal of this project is to examine if different circuits in the brain lead to deficits in emotional regulation in male vs. female rats
Role: Principal Investigator
Award period: 6/1/24 – 5/31/25
Amount: $40,000
Title: Interdisciplinary Frontier Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellows Program
Granting Agency: Graduate College University of Delaware
Description of award: The goal of this project is to examine if geographical constructs (e.g. cities) have acquired component of fear in a similar manner to fear conditioned stimuli
Role: co-Principal Investigator
Award period: 6/1/23 – 5/31/24
Amount: $66,000
Title: Paradoxical effects of estrogen in stress susceptibility.
Award Number: 1P20GM103653
Granting Agency: NIH/COBRE
Description of award: The goal of this project is to show that stress susceptibility in females can be caused by variation in estrogen receptor activity driven by the sex hormone cycles in females.
Role: Research Investigator
Award Period: 9/1/17 - 8/31/21
Title: Using magnetic resonance imaging to examine traumatic stress-induced changes in the reward circuit
Award number: 1P20GM103653
Granting Agency: NIH/COBRE
Description of award: The goal of this project is to determine if traumatic stress alters the volume of neural substrates that comprise the reward circuit as well as functional connectivity within the reward circuit.
Role: Research Investigator
Award period: 3/19/19 – 2/28/20
Title: Using multi-photon confocal microscopy to examine neurobiological mechanisms of emotions and stress-induced changes in emotional reactivity.
Award Number: P20GM103446
Granting Agency: NIH/INBRE
Description of Award: The goal of this project is to use the microscopy core facilities at the Delaware Biotechnical Institute to examine neurobiological mechanisms via which stress leads to changes in emotional reactivity. The grant funds training for lab members to learn how to perform multiphoton and confocal microscopy, calcium imaging, and retrograde labeling using various types of fluorescence technology.
Role: Principal Investigator.
Award Period: 6/21/17 – 12/31/17.
Title: The roles of glucocorticoid receptors and phosphoinositol-3 kinase signaling in mediating extinction memory deficits in the SPS model.
Granting Agency: NIH/COBRE.
Description of Award: This is a NIH sponsored award for junior research investigators in the life sciences at Delaware State University and the University of Delaware. The award is intended to provide junior research investigators the opportunity to obtain pilot data for a R01 grant.
Role: Pilot Investigator.
Award Period: 6/1/15 - 5/30/17.
Title: Traumatic stress exposure induces long-term extinction deficits by enhancing glucocorticoid receptor interactions with kinases in the ventral hippocampus.
Granting Agency: University of Delaware Research Foundation.
Description of Award: This is a private foundation at the University of Delaware that awards funding to young research investigators in the natural sciences on a competitive basis.
Role: Principal Investigator.
Award Period: 6/1/14 - 5/30/16.
Title: Medial Prefrontal Cortex And HPA Axis Roles In Generation Of PTSD-Like, Symptoms, In SPS Model (W81XWH-08-1-0661).
Granting Agency: Department of Defense.
Description of Award: This was an RFP for basic science research examining the neurobiology of PTSD. Funding levels for this RFP was estimated to be at 3 % of total grant applications received by the Department of Defense.
Role: Co-Investigator. Was responsible for conducting background research (e.g. Pubmed searches), designed and performed experiments that contributed to the preliminary data set, and wrote drafts of the grant application.
Award Period: 9/1/08 – 9/30/12.