School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellows

Hannah Jarrell, PhD

Degree: PhD, Lousiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
Mentor: Michael Salling, PhD
Research: Mechanisms of Amygdala Plasticity in Alcohol Self-Administration
Department: Neurobiology
Email: hjarr1@lsuhsc.edu

I have set up and optimized operant condition paradigms for alcohol self-administration in mice and optimized imaging and analysis conditions for studying changes from chronic binge alcohol (CBA) use in rhesus macaque. Future research includes contiued analysis of neuronal morphological changes and changes in neuron excitability in rhesus macaques in the context of SIV and CBA administration.

Predoctoral Fellows

Meagan Donovan

Degree: BS, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Mentor: Janos Paloczi, PhD
Department: Cardiovascular Center
Email:  mdono2@lsuhsc.edu

I am currently investigating potential therapeutics to target the mitochondrial changes that occur in cardiomyocytes following alcohol exposure.

Eric Eymard

Degree: MS, University of Cincinnati
Mentor: Charles Wood, PhD
Department: Interdisciplinary Oncology
Email: eeymar@lsuhsc.edu

I am investigating how alcohol use disorder disrupts humoral immunity and its role in preventing oncogenesis mediated by EBV and KSHV, and how HIV co-infection may compound this effect.