A. Laurel Gorman (Mentor: Dr. Nick Goeders)
Ph.D., 1994
Thesis: Benzodiazepine-receptor modulation of cocaine-induced behavioral sensitization
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Lederle Laboratories, Pear River, NY

Current place of employment: Nova Southeastern University, College of Medical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Current job title: Assistant Professor

Philip Kemp (Mentor: Dr. Joe Manno)
Ph.D., 1994
Thesis: Temporal correlation between human topographic quantitative EEG and cannabinoids in biologic matrices using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

Current place of employment: Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Current job title: Chief Forensic Toxicologist

Ying Ye (Mentor: Dr. James M. O'Donnell)
Ph.D., 1995
Thesis: Regulation of rolipram-sensitive, low-km cyclic amp phosphodiesterase by noradrenergic neurons in rat cerebral cortex

Leslie Causey (Mentor: Dr. Donard Dwyer)
M.S., 1995
Thesis: Detection of low affinity interactions between peptides and heat shock proteins by chemiluminescence of enhanced avidity reactions (clear)

Zhongyou Wei (Mentor: Dr. Sandra Roerig)
M.S., 1995
Thesis: Voltage-dependent calcium channels and G-proteins in spinal morphine/clonidine synergistic antinociception

Current Place of employment: Amgen
Current job title: Research Associate

M. Renee Simar (Mentor: Dr. Nick Goeders)
Ph.D., 1996
Thesis: Differences in the neuroendocrine and behavioral responses to cocaine in two inbred rat strains

Current place of employment: INC Research, Raleigh, NC
Current job title: Vice President of INC Pediatrics

Jianping Wang (Mentor: Dr. Adrian Dunn)
Ph.D., 1997
Thesis: Neuroendocrine and neurochemical effects of interleukin-6 and its role in the CNS responses to lipopolysaccharide and interleukin-1-beta
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Scripps Institute, La Jolla, CA

Current employer: Division of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
Current job title: Assistant Professor

Pankaj Sikka (Mentor: Dr. Kenneth McMartin)
Ph.D., 1997
Thesis: Characterization of folate transport in cultured rat proximal tubule cells
Residency: Anesthesiology, Yale University

Current employer: Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Current job title: Fellow, Cardiac Anesthesia

Kehong Zhang (Mentor: Dr. Jim O'Donnell)
Ph.D., 1997
Thesis: Development of rolipram-sensitive, low Km, cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase and regulation by noradrenergic neurons in rat brain

Current place of employment: Ivy Editing & Consulting, Shanghai, China
Current job title: President

Deidra Atkins (Mentor: Dr. Nick Goeders)
M.S., 1997
Thesis: Prenatal events influencing cocaine self-administration
Ph.D., Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN

Yaohui Li (Mentor: Dr. Sandra Roerig)
M.S., 1997
Thesis: Alterations of spinal protein kinase C kinetics and expression in morphine tolerant mice
M.D., China

Current place of employment: Scripps Memorial Hospital at Chula Vista, San Diego, CA
Member of the Anesthesia group

John Mantsch (Mentor: Dr. Nick Goeders)
Ph.D., 1998
Thesis: Role of adrenocorticosteroids in stressor-cocaine interactions
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Current place of employment: Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Current job title: Assistant Professor

Donna Ross (Mentor: Dr. Kenneth McMartin)
Ph.D., 1999
Thesis: The effects of ethanol on folate transport of cultured human proximal tubule cells

Current place of employment: Nemour's Children's Clinic, Pensacola, FL
Current job title: Diabetes Prevention Trial Coordinator

Cameron Griffith (Mentor: Dr. Nancy Leidenheimer)
M.S., 1999
Thesis: Effect of pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures on tyrosine phosphorylation of GABAA and NMDA receptors
M.D., LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, 2003

Current place of employment: LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport
Current job title: Resident in Medicine

Robert Moore (Mentor: Dr. Judson Chandler)
M.S., 1998
Thesis: Involvement of extracellular-regulated kinases (ERKs) in induction of type II nitric oxide synthase in rat astroglia
M.D., 2002

Current place of employment: University Hospital, Jackson, MS
Current job title: Resident in Pathology

Orlando Bueno (Mentor: Dr. Nancy Leidenheimer)
Ph.D., 1999
Thesis: Regulation of GABAA receptor distribution by phosphorylation and cytoskeleton interactions

Current place of employment: Children's Hospital Medical Center,
Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Cincinatti, OH
Current job title: Research Instructor

Farzana Karim (Mentor: Dr. Sandra Roerig)
Ph.D., 1999
Thesis: Functional aspects of opioid and alpha2 adrenergic receptor activation: Involvement of specific G proteins

Current place of employment: Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, Houston, TX
Current job title: Instructor

Suzanne Tinsley (Mentor: Dr. Dunn)
Ph.D., 1999
Thesis: The effects of interleukin-6 on FOS expression in the rat brain

Current place of employment: Department of Physical Therapy, School of Allied Health, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA
Current job title: Assistant Professor

Troy Cenac (Mentor: Dr. Kenneth McMartin)
M.S., 1999
Thesis: The metabolism and cytotoxicity of ethylene glycol metabolites in cultured human kidney proximal tubule cells

Current place of employment: Tyler Junior College, Chemistry Department, Tyler, TX
Current job title: Instructor

Chad Beyer (Mentor: Dr. Jeff Steketee)
Ph.D., 2001
Thesis: Role of the medial prefrontal cortex in cocaine sensitization

Current place of employment: Chemical and Screening Sciences, Discovery Analytical Chemistry, Wyeth Research, Princeton, NJ
Current job title: Research Scientist

Carmen Gremillion (Mentor: Dr. Jim O'Donnell)
M.S., 2000
Thesis: The involvement of PDE4A in NMDA receptor signaling

Current place of employment: University of Louisiana-Monroe College of Pharmacy, Monroe, LA
Current job title: Pharmacy student

Greg Sutton (Mentor: Dr. Judson Chandler)
Ph.D., 2001
Thesis: The extracellular-signal regulated kinases and protein kinase B are coupled to NMDA receptors and are inhibited by ethanol, in vitro and in vivo
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Burnham Institute, San Diego, CA

Current place of employment: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Current job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Nutritional Neurobiology

Tim Ardizzone (Mentor: Dr. Donard Dwyer)
Ph.D., 2001
Thesis: Pharmacological regulation of glucose transport in PC12 cells

Current place of employment: Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, Department of Neurology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Current job title: Instructor, Department of Physiology; Associate, Department of Neurology

Shelley Romanoff (Mentor: Dr. Ken McMartin)
M.S., 2002
Thesis: Repeated and subchronic ethanol exposure upregulates renal folate transporter proteins

Current place of employment: LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA
Current job title: Second year medical student

Scott Baker (Mentor: Dr. Sandra Roerig)
M.S., 2002
Thesis: Nitric oxide (NO) is involved in the initiation but not the maintenance of carrageenan induced inflammation and thermal hyperalgesia

Current place of employment: Abbott Pharmaceutical Co., Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development Division (GPRD), Pain Group, Chicago, IL.
Current job title: Research Pharmacologist

Natalie Lenard (Mentor: Dr. Adrian Dunn)
Ph.D., 2003
Thesis: Beta-adrenergic modulation of mouse brain tryptophan

Current place of employment: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Current job title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Olga Gurkovskaya (Mentor: Dr. Nick Goeders)
Ph.D., 2004
Thesis: Role of corticotropin-releasing hormone in cocaine seeking

Current place of employment: LSUHSC Department of Pharmacology, Baton Rouge, LA
Current job title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Mark Moffett (Mentor: Dr. Nick Goeders)
Ph.D., 2004
Thesis: Is the HPA axis involved in methamphetamine reward?

Current place of employment: Yerkes Regional Primate Center, Emory University
Current job title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Xiao-Hong Lu (Mentor: Dr. Donard Dwyer)
Ph.D., 2004
Thesis: Effects of antipsychotic drugs on cell growth, survival, metabolism and the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/Akt and extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling

Current place of employment: UCLA Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute and Brain Research Institute at David Geffen School of Medicine
Current job title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Cheryl Campbell (Mentor: Dr. Heather Kleiner)
M.S., 2004
Thesis: Breast cancer chemoprevention with 1'-Acetoxychavicol acetate

Current place of employment: AstraZeneca Boston, Boston, MA
Current job title: Research Associate

Brian Crenshaw (Mentor: Dr. Kenneth McMartin)
M.S., 2005
Thesis: Calcium oxalate monohydrate is associated with endothelial cell cytotoxicity in ethylene glycol poisoning

Current place of employment: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport
Current job title: Third Year Medical Student

Dallas Donohoe (Mentor: Dr. Donard Dwyer)
Ph.D., 2007
Thesis: Mechanisms underlying the long-term effects of antipsychotic drugs

Current place of employment: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Current job title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Current place of employment: University of Washington at Seattle
Current job title: Senior Fellow