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Rebecca Taugher

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Address: 1310 PBDB
Phone: (319) 384-3174
Email: rebecca-taugher@uiowa.edu

Mentor: John Wemmie, MD, PhD

Undergraduate Institution: Loras College

Year Entered Into Program: 2014

PhD Institution: The University of Iowa

Research Description

I am interested in the molecular and neuranatomical bases of psychiatric illness.

Publication(s)

Taugher RJ, Ghobbeh A, Sowers LP, Fan R, Wemmie JA. ASIC1A in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis mediates TMT-evoked freezing. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2015 July. 9:239.

Kreple CJ, Lu Y, Taugher RJ, Du J, Stump M, Wang Y, Ghobbeh A, Fan R, Sowers LP, Welsh MJ, Radley JJ, LaLumiere RT, Wemmie JA. Acid-sensing ion channels in the nucleus accumbens contribute to synaptic transmission and inhibit cocaine-associated plasticity. Nature Neuroscience. 2014 August. 17(8):1083-91.

Taugher RJ, Lu Y, Wang Y, Kreple CJ, Ghobbeh A, Fan R, Sowers LP, Wemmie JA. The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis is critical for anxiety-related behavior evoked by CO2 and acidosis. Journal of Neuroscience. 2014 July. 34(31):10247-55.

Wemmie JA, Taugher RJ, Kreple CJ. Acid-Sensing Ion Channels in Pain and Disease. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2013. 14(7):461-71.