INIA-Investigators

Projects

Project 1: INIA - Robust Systems Genetics of Alcohol and Stress Effects on CNS

• Robert Williams, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  University of Tennessee, Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN
  

Project 2: Stress and Ethanol Self-Administration in Monkeys

• Kathleen Grant, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
  

Project 3: Ethanol Dependence and Stress Effects on Ethanol Drinking: CRF & Neurosteroids

• Howard Becker, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  Medical University of South Carolina, SC
  

Project 4: Early Stress & Alcoholism: Neurobiological Analysis

• David P. Friedman, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, NC
  

Project 5: Stress, HPA Axis Dysfunction and Relapse in Alcoholism

• Bryon Adinoff M.D., Principal Investigator
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
  

Project 6: Genomics Analysis of Social Stress and Individual Variation in Ethanol Drinking

• Michael F. Miles, M.D., Ph.D.,Principal Investigator
  Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
  

Project 7: Ethanol, Stress and Dopamine

• Sara R. Jones, Ph.D.,Principal Investigator
  Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
  

Project 8: Ontological Discovery for Ethanol Research

• Elissa Chesler, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine
  

Project 9: Social Isolation Stress: Role of Neurosteroids in the Action of Ethanol on GABAAR

• Giovanni Biggio, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  University of Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria, ITALY
  

Pilot Projects

• Matthew M. Ford, Ph.D.Principal Investigator Schedule-induced polydipsia, stress, and ethanol drinking,OHSU Portland, OR
  
• Thomas Kash, Ph.D.Principal Investigator Alcohol and Stress Regulation of NPY Signaling, UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine, NC
  
• Patrick Mulholland, Ph.D., Principal Investigator Chronic Alcohol-Induced Plasticity of the mPFC: Role for SK2 Channels MUSC, Charleston, SC
  
• Elise Weerts, Ph.D., Principal Investigator Prenatal Stress and Alcoholism
  Johns Hopkins Bayview, Baltimore, MD
  

Administrative Core - INIA: Stress, Anxiety and Alcohol Abuse

• Kathleen Grant, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
  

Bioinformatics Core - Informatics and Analysis Core

• Michael F. Miles Ph.D.,Principal Investigator
  Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
  

Knock-Out Core - Gene-Targeted Mouse Core

• Eric Delpire, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TN
  

Mouse Resources Core

• Daniel Goldowitz, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  

Neurosteroid Service Core

• Leslie Morrow, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC