Associate Professor, Department of Neurosciences
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
EDUCATION | Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL | B.S. | 1980 | Biology | | University of Texas, Austin, TX | Ph.D. | 1988 | Pharmacology | | University of Florida, Gainesville, GL | Postdoctoral | 1989 | Neuropharmacology |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | 1980-1982 | Research Assistant, Department of Pharmacology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL | | 1983-1987 | Graduate Student, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Texas, Austin, TX | | 1988-1989 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL | | 1989-1994 | Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL | | 1994-1999 | Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, LA | | 1999 | Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, LA | | 1999-present | Associate Professor, Department of Neurosciences and Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, MUSC, Charleston, SC |
AWARDS AND HONORS | 1989 | Postdoctoral Training Fellowship, National Institute on Aging | | 1989 | International Society of Neurochemistry Young Scientist Travel Award | | 1990-1995 | NIAAA K21 Scientist Development Award | | 1991 | International Society of Neurochemistry Young Scientist Travel Award | | 1998-2004 | Research Society on Alcoholism Education Committee | | 1999-present | Board of Reviewing Editors; Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research | | 2001-present | NIAAA Special Emphasis Study Section (AA-1) |
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Chandler LJ & Kalivas PW. Neuroscience: Brain's defence against cocaine. Nature 455(7214):743-744, 2008.
Lapish CC, Durstewitz D, Chandler LJ & Seamans JK. Successful choice behavior is associated with distinct and coherent network states in anterior cingulate cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(33):11963-11968, 2008. PMCID: PMC2516968
Mulholland PJ, Carpenter-Hyland EP, Hearing MC, Becker HC, Woodward JJ & Chandler LJ. Glutamate transporters regulate extrasynaptic NMDA receptor modulation of Kv2.1 potassium channels. Journal of Neuroscience 28(35):8801-8809, 2008. PMCID: PMC2612131
Mulholland PJ, Luong NT, Woodward JJ & Chandler LJ. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase is autonomous from the dominant extrasynaptic NMDA receptor extracellular signal-regulated kinase shutoff pathway. Neuroscience 151(2):419-427, 2008. PMCID: PMC2390783
Simms JA, Steensland P, Medina B, Abernathy KE, Chandler LJ, Wise R & Bartlett SE. Intermittent access to 20% ethanol induces high ethanol consumption in Long-Evans and Wistar rats. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research 32(10):1816-1823, 2008.
Xu M, Chandler LJ & Woodward JJ. Ethanol inhibition of recombinant NMDA receptors is not altered by coexpression of CaMKII-alpha or CaMKII-beta. Alcohol 42(5):425-432, 2008. |
