Lab Members

	Rita Fuchs Lokensgard, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology and Curriculum in Neurobiology
	Phone: 919-843-4539 rfuchs@email.unc.edu	Ph.D. Psychology, Arizona State University M.A. Psychology, Arizona State University  B.S. Psychology, Arizona State University

	Amy Arguello, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow
	Phone: 919-843-4538 arguello@email.unc.edu	Post-doc, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Ph.D.Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Med. Center  B.S. Biology, St. Mary's University

Interests: Molecular mechanisms of memory reconsolidation and drug relapse.

	Xiaohu (Tiger) Xie, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow
	Phone: 919-843-4539 xhxie@email.unc.edu	Ph.D. Pharmacology, University of Tennessee B.S. Biochemistry, Nanjing University

Interests: Neuropharmacological mechanisms of drug relapse and cue-induced impulsive behavior Recipent of a CPDD Young Investigator Travel Award

	Heather C. Lasseter Graduate Student, Ph.D. Candidate
	Phone: 919-843-4539 lasseter@email.unc.edu	Ph.D. Program, Psychology, UNC-CH B.A. Neuroscience, Kenyon College

Interests: Frontal cortical mechanisms of drug relapse Recipent of a Predoctoral NRSA, UNC Fellowship, and a NIDA institutional training grant fellowship

	Audrey Wells Graduate Student
	Phone: 919-843-4539 wellsam@email.unc.edu	Ph.D. Program, Psychology, UNC-CH B.S. Psychology, Boston University

Interests: Functional neuroanatomy of memory reconsolidation Recipent of a NIDA and NINDS institutional training grant fellowships

	Andrew Reittinger Undergraduate Researcher
	Phone: 919-843-4539 reitting@email.unc.edu	B.S. Program, Chemistry, UNC

Lab Alumni Hall of Fame

The Three Who Started It All:

Guinevere Bell
B.S. Psychology, UNC
Currently at the Medical University of South Carolina
Zu -In (Shelley) Su
B.S. Psychology, UNC
Currently at the University of California Santa Barbara
Jessica Eaddy
B.A. Psychology, UNC
Currently at the Medical University of South Carolina

 

Donna Ramirez, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral fellow
Currently Assistant Director of Research, Center for Addiction Research,
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

 

Kate Cowhey
B.S. Psychology with Honors, UNC
Recipient of the J.H. Thompson and E. Barnett Thompson Undergraduate Research Award; Recipient of the Dashiell-Thurstone Prize, awarded by the UNC Department of Psychology, for the most outstanding undergraduate research project (2010)
Currently at Tulane University

KaiCee Ponds
B.S. Psychology with Honors, UNC
Recipient of the Professor George V. Taylor Honors Undergraduate
Research Award
Currently at University of Tennessee School of Medicine

 

John Tobben
B.S. Psychology with Honors, UNC
Recipient of the J.H. Thompson and E. Barnett Thompson Undergraduate Research Award
Currently at Wake Forest School of Medicine

Portia West
B.S. Psychology, UNC
Currently at Georgetown University

 

Amy Zipurski
B.S. Psychology, UNC
Subsequently at Duke University

 

Stephanie Kaszycki
B.S. Biology with Honors, UNC
Recipient of the UNC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Recipient of the J.H. Thompson and E. Barnett Thompson Undergraduate Research Award

  


Trey Newsome
B.S. Psychology, UNC
Currently on a well-deserved fishing trip :)