Marie Doyle

Marie received her Ph.D. in 2020 from Michigan State University, where she was a graduate student in the Neuroscience Program. She completed her doctoral training in the lab of Dr. Michelle Mazei-Robison, focusing on cocaine- and morphine-induced neuroadaptations in the ventral tegmental area. Specifically, she used a combination of transgenic mouse models and viral-mediated approaches to determine the role of SGK1 catalytic activity and phosphorylation in regulating drug reward and intake. Marie joined the Winder Lab as a postdoc in September of 2020, where her research interests focus on characterizing alcohol-induced plasticity in the BNST and how these changes contribute to maladaptive behaviors. This work is centered in individual differences in ethanol drinking behaviors, integrating in vivo and ex vivo calcium imaging, ex vivo slice electrophysiology, operant behavior, and the development of open source tools.