Personal Information:
Birthday
– 3 March
Educational Background
– Bachelor of Science in
Chemistry,
Minor in Psychology
from New Mexico
Institute of Mining and
Technology
Current Graduate School Program – Chemistry Department at Penn State University
Activities to kill time – Cheering for the Nittany Lions and JoePa in Beaver Stadium as loud as I can for as long as I can, writing, watching copious amounts of CSI and Veronica Mars (along with other TV shows that have been recommended to me), reading literature, tennis, teaching my fish tricks, telling and listening to stories, drinking dark roast coffee.
Words of Wisdom – Difficult takes a day. Impossible takes a week. – Jay-Z
Research - I currently have several different projects going on in the lab. I use chronoamperometry to determine uptake rates and affinity constants for different genetic variants in the serotonin transporter using human lymphoblast cells. Additionally, I do behavioral testing (elevated-plus maze, locomotor activity, and Lashley III maze) on two of our mouse lines to determine how genetic variants influence anxiety and learning and memory. Also, I am responsible for the maintenance of our mouse colony. And I boss around Tara and Alex.
Publications:
Perez X, Bressler AJ, Andrews AM (in press) Determining serotonin and dopamine uptake rates using high-speed chronoamperometry. In: Electrochemical Methods for Neuroscience (Michael A, Borlands LA, ed). CRC Press, LLC, Boca Raton, FL: 103-124 (2007).
Posters Presented:
Society for Neuroscience Conference 2006, Atlanta, Georgia. "High-speed chronoamperometric determination of serotonin transporter function in human lymphoblasts" Y. Singh, A. J. Bressler, R. Ren-Patterson, D. L. Murphy and A. M. Andrews,
