University at Buffalo (UB)
Julie E. Harris Ph.D.
Julie E. Harris
Ph.D.
Education and Training:
- PhD, Integrated Biomedical Science - Neuroscience, University of South Carolina (2019)
- Certificate, Integrated Biomedical Science, University of South Carolina (2014)
- BS, Chemistry, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Cum Laude (2013)
Employment:
- Instructor, Pharmacology & Toxicology, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine (2023-present)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pharmacology, University of Michigan Medicine (2019–2023)
Awards and Honors:
- Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional Training Grant Postdoctoral T32 Training Program (2021)
- AWRP Winter 2017 Predoctoral Fellowship (2017)
- Outstanding Departmental Service
- Best Postdoctoral Presentation
- 3rd Place Graduate Student Best Presentation
- Break Through Graduate Student
- Poster Award
- 1st Place Graduate Student Best Presentation
- Newton Symposium Best Presentation
Journal Articles:
- Finnell JE, Ferrario CR. (2023) Applying behavioral economics-based approaches to examine the effects of liquid sucrose consumption on motivation. Appetite (Jul), 186: 106556.
- Finnell JE, Ferrario CR. (2022) Intra-NAc insulin reduces the motivation for food and food intake without altering cue-triggered food-seeking. Physiology & behavior (Oct), 254: 113892.
- Porcher L, Bruckmeier S, Burbano SD, Finnell JE, Gorny N, Klett J, Wood SK, Kelly MP. (2021) Aging triggers an upregulation of a multitude of cytokines in the male and especially the female rodent hippocampus but more discrete changes in other brain regions. Journal of neuroinflammation (Sep), 18(1): 219. doi:10.1186/s12974-021-02252-6
- Finnell JE, Moffitt CM, Hesser LA, Harrington E, Melson MN, Wood CS, Wood SK. (2019) The contribution of the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system in the emergence of defeat-induced inflammatory priming. Brain, behavior, and immunity (Jul), 79: 102-113. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2019.01.021
- Finnell JE, Muniz BL, Padi AR, Lombard CM, Moffitt CM, Wood CS, Wilson LB, Reagan LP, Wilson MA, Wood SK. (2018) Essential Role of Ovarian Hormones in Susceptibility to the Consequences of Witnessing Social Defeat in Female Rats. Biological psychiatry (Sep), 84(5): 372-382. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.01.013
- Finnell JE, Wood SK. (2018) Putative Inflammatory Sensitive Mechanisms Underlying Risk or Resilience to Social Stress. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience (Jan), 12: 240. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00240
- Finnell JE, Lombard CM, Padi AR, Moffitt CM, Wilson LB, Wood CS, Wood SK. (2017) Physical versus psychological social stress in male rats reveals distinct cardiovascular, inflammatory and behavioral consequences. PloS one (Jan), 12(2): e0172868. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172868
- Finnell JE, Lombard CM, Melson MN, Singh NP, Nagarkatti M, Nagarkatti P, Fadel JR, Wood CS, Wood SK. (2017) The protective effects of resveratrol on social stress-induced cytokine release and depressive-like behavior. Brain, behavior, and immunity (Jan), 59: 147-157. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2016.08.019
- Finnell JE, Wood SK. (2016) Neuroinflammation at the interface of depression and cardiovascular disease: Evidence from rodent models of social stress. Neurobiology of stress (Oct), 4: 1-14. doi:10.1016/j.ynstr.2016.04.001
- Wood SK, Wood CS, Lombard CM, Lee CS, Zhang XY, Finnell JE, Valentino RJ. (2015) Inflammatory Factors Mediate Vulnerability to a Social Stress-Induced Depressive-like Phenotype in Passive Coping Rats. Biological psychiatry (Jul), 78(1): 38-48. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.10.026
Professional Memberships:
- American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
- Society for Neuroscience
- Obesity Society
- Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior