Return to: U of M Home

Gold University of Minnesota M.University of Minnesota. Home page.

 

Graduate Program in Neuroscience -> Current Students -> Current Student List -> Rachel Penrod


For Students:
Grant Writing and Career Resources

Training Opportunities

Neuroscience Courses

Student Handbook

Additional Resources

Student Board

Committees

About Students:
Alphabetic Student List

Student Bios

Student Directory

Research Interests

   

Search Neuroscience

Google


WWW
Graduate Program

 

Rachel Penrod

Entering Class - 2006

E-mail: penro010@umn.edu


Undergraduate Institution and Major/Degree:

  • University of Nebraska, BA/BS
    Psychology-Major, Biochemistry and Chemistry-Minor, 2005

Major Advisor(s):

Research Description:

Investigating the role of AFAP120 in dendritic spine morphogenesis and maintenance as well as it's role in cytoskeleton-mediated dendritic spine changes following drug exposure.

Lab Rotations:

  • Mark Thomas
  • Paul Mermelstein
  • Lorene Lanier

Courses Taken Beyond the Core Courses:

  • Developmental Neurobiology Journal Club
  • Psychopharmacology Seminar

  • Biological Basis of Behavior
  • Advanced Developmental Biology

Conferences Attended:

  • Society for Neuroscience annual meeting 2004-2006
    Research presented 2005 and 2006
  • Midwestern Psychology Association annual meeting 2006,
    Research presented 2005 and 2006

Publications:

  • Bevins RA, Penrod RD, Reichel CM., 2007, “Nicotine does not produce state-dependent effects on learning in a Pavlovian appetitive goal tracking task with rats.” Behav. Brain Res., 177:134-141
  • Wilkinson JL, Murray JE, Li C, Wiltgen SM, Penrod RD, Berg SA, Bevins RA., 2006, “Interoceptive Pavlovian conditioning with nicotine as the conditional stimulus varies as a function of the number of conditioning trails and unpaired sucrose deliveries.” Behav Pharmacol., 17:161-172
  • Peer JE, Rothmann Tl, Penrod RD, Penn DL, Spaulding WD., 2004, “social cognitive bias and neurocognitive deficit in paranoid symptoms: evidence for an interaction effect and changes during treatment.” Schizophr Res., 71:463-471

Presentations:

  • Wilkinson JL, Penrod RD, Murray JE & Bevins RA. Conditioned stimulus effects of nicotine: bupropion substitution and the effects of sucrose concentration.  35th meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, November 2005

  • Penrod RD, Reichel CM, & Bevins RA.  A test of state-
    dependency’s role in a Pavlovian drug discrimination task with nicotine.
    36th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA, November  2006

  • Penrod, RD, Reichel, CM, & Bevins, RA.  A test of state-
    dependency’s role in an interoceptive conditioning task with a nicotine cue. 78th Midwestern Psychological Association annual meeting, Chicago IL, May 2006

  • Murray JE, Wilkinson JL, Berg SA, Penrod RD, Li CJ, Wiltgen SM & Bevins RA. Nicotine as a conditional stimulus: Factors affecting acquisition and extinction. 77th Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago IL, May 2005.

Professional Memberships:

  • Society for Neuroscience 2005-present

Home Town:

  • Lincoln, Nebraska