Email

alyset@bcm.edu

Positions

Postdoctoral Fellow

Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Addresses

Nuo Li Laboratory (Lab)

BCM-TaubMedical Research Bldg
Room: BCMS-T632
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

PhD from University of Pennsylvania

05/2017 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States

BS from University of Pittsburgh

05/2010 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States

Neuroscience

Websites

Selected Publications

• Ostroumov, A., Thomas, A.M., Kimmey, B.A., Karsch, J.S., Doyon, W.M., and Dani, J.A. "Stress Increases Ethanol Self-Administration via a Shift toward Excitatory GABA Signaling in the Ventral Tegmental Area." Neuron. 2016; Pubmed PMID: 27720487
• Thomas, A.M., Ostroumov, A., Kimmey, B.A., Taormina, M.B., Holden, W.M., Kim, K., Brown-Mangum, T., and Dani, J.A. "Adolescent Nicotine Exposure Alters GABAA Receptor Signaling in the Ventral Tegmental Area and Increases Adult Ethanol Self-Administration.." Cell Rep. 2018 Apr 3;23:68-77. Pubmed PMID: 29617674
• Ostroumov, A., Thomas, A.M., Dani, J.A., and Doyon, W.M. "Cigarettes and alcohol: The influence of nicotine on operant alcohol self-administration and the mesolimbic dopamine system." Biochem Pharmacol. 2015;97:550-557. Pubmed PMID: 4794282
• Doyon, W.M., Dong, Y., Ostroumov, A., Thomas, A.M., Zhang, T.A., and Dani, J.A. "Nicotine decreases ethanol-induced dopamine signaling and increases self-administration via stress hormones." Neuron. 2013;79:530- 540. Pubmed PMID: 3755901