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Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD

Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology

Current Positions

  • Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology

Education

  • MS in Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
  • PhD in Neuroscience, Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Florida
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Graduate Program Affiliations

Center, Program and Institute Affiliations

Selected Publications

  • Pati, D., Marcinkiewcz, C. A., DiBerto, J. F., Cogan, E. S., McElligott, Z. A. & Kash, T. L. (2020). Chronic intermittent ethanol exposure dysregulates a GABAergic microcircuit in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Neuropharmacology 168 107759. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2019.107759. PMID: 31494142. PMCID: PMC7056508.
  • Marcinkiewcz, C. A., La Bierlein-De Rosa, G., Dorrier, C. E., McKnight, M., DiBerto, J. F., Pati, D., Gianessi, C. A., Hon, O. J., Tipton, G., McElligott, Z. A., Delpire, E. & Kash, T. L. (2019). Sex-Dependent Modulation of Anxiety and Fear by 5-HT1A Receptors in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis. ACS chemical neuroscience 10 (7) 3154-3166. DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00594. PMID: 31140276. PMCID: PMC6996028.
  • Radke, A. K., Jury, N. J., Kocharian, A., Marcinkiewcz, C. A., Lowery-Gionta, E. G., Pleil, K. E., McElligott, Z. A., McKlveen, J. M., Kash, T. L. & Holmes, A. (2017). Chronic EtOH effects on putative measures of compulsive behavior in mice. Addiction Biology 22 (2) 423-434. DOI: 10.1111/adb.12342. PMID: 26687341. PMCID: PMC4916036.
  • Marcinkiewcz, C. A., Mazzone, C. M., D'Agostino, G., Halladay, L. R., Hardaway, J. A., DiBerto, J. F., Navarro, M., Burnham, N., Cristiano, C., Dorrier, C. E., Tipton, G. J., Ramakrishnan, C., Kozicz, T., Deisseroth, K., Thiele, T. E., McElligott, Z. A., Holmes, A., Heisler, L. K. & Kash, T. L. (2016). Serotonin engages an anxiety and fear-promoting circuit in the extended amygdala. Nature 537 (7618) 97-101. DOI: 10.1038/nature19318. PMID: 27556938. PMCID: PMC5124365.
  • Marcinkiewcz, C. A., Lowery-Gionta, E. G. & Kash, T. L. (2016). Serotonin's Complex Role in Alcoholism: Implications for Treatment and Future Research. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research 40 (6) 1192-201. DOI: 10.1111/acer.13076. PMID: 27161942.
  • Urban, D. J., Zhu, H., Marcinkiewcz, C. A., Michaelides, M., Oshibuchi, H., Rhea, D., Aryal, D. K., Farrell, M. S., Lowery-Gionta, E., Olsen, R. H., Wetsel, W. C., Kash, T. L., Hurd, Y. L., Tecott, L. H. & Roth, B. L. (2016). Elucidation of The Behavioral Program and Neuronal Network Encoded by Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons. Neuropsychopharmacology 41 (5) 1404-15. DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.293. PMID: 26383016. PMCID: PMC4793125.
  • Pleil, K. E., Lowery-Gionta, E. G., Crowley, N. A., Li, C., Marcinkiewcz, C. A., Rose, J. H., McCall, N. M., Maldonado-Devincci, A. M., Morrow, A. L., Jones, S. R. & Kash, T. L. (2015). Effects of chronic ethanol exposure on neuronal function in the prefrontal cortex and extended amygdala. Neuropharmacology 99 735-49. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2015.06.017. PMID: 26188147. PMCID: PMC4781662.
  • Marcinkiewcz, C. A. (2015). Serotonergic Systems in the Pathophysiology of Ethanol Dependence: Relevance to Clinical Alcoholism. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 6 (7) 1026-39. DOI: 10.1021/cn5003573. PMID: 25654315.
  • Marcinkiewcz, C. A. & Devine, D. P. (2015). Modulation of OCT3 expression by stress, and antidepressant-like activity of decynium-22 in an animal model of depression. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior 131 33-41. DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2015.01.004. PMID: 25597272.
  • Lowery-Gionta, E. G., Marcinkiewcz, C. A. & Kash, T. L. (2015). Functional alterations in the dorsal raphe nucleus following acute and chronic ethanol exposure. Neuropsychopharmacology 40 (3) 590-600. DOI: 10.1038/npp.2014.205. PMID: 25120075. PMCID: PMC4289946.