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
  

Project 10: Genetic Regulation of the Ethanol/Anxiety Interaction: Neurobiological Mechanisms

• Brian McCool, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
  

Project 11: Genetic Analysis of Ethanol-Mediated Stress Reduction

• Lu Lu, M.D., Co-Investigator
  University of Tennessee, Health Sciences Center,Memphis, TN
  

Project 12: Regulation of Synaptic Transmission in BNST by Alcohol

• Danny Winder, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
  

Administrative Core - INIA: Stress, Anxiety and Alcohol Abuse

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

Pilot Projects

• Helene Bach-Mizrachi, Ph.D.Principal Investigator Role of Neuronal Tryptophan Hydroxylase in Alcoholism
  Columbia University, New York, NY
  
• Natalie Ceballos, Ph.D.Principal Investigator Neurophysiology of the Stress and Alcohol Connection: Automatic or Controlled
  Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, TX
  
• Judith Grisel, Ph.D., Principal Investigator Beta-Endorphin, Stress and ETOH Sensitivity
  Furman University, Greenville, SC
  
• Tod Kippin, Ph.D., Principal Investigator Prenatal Stress and Alcoholism
  University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
  
• Patrizia Porcu, Ph.D.,Principal Investigator Steroid and Genetic Biomarkers of Alcohol Preference in BXD RI Mice
  University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
  

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