Eric J. Vallender, PhD
Associate Professor
Department:
SOM-Psychiatry
Email:
evallender@umc.edu
Work Phone:
(601) 984-5893
Education
| University of Chicago, PhD, Genetics | 2006 |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BS, Biochemistry | 2000 |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BA, Anthropology | 2000 |
| Harvard Medical School, Post-doctoral training, Neuroscience |
Current Positions
| Core Scientist | 07/2015 - Present |
| Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry | 11/2014 - Present |
| The University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi 39216 | |
Academic Appointments or Other Previous Appointments
| Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry | 06/2012 - 11/2014 |
| Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry | 08/2009 - 05/2012 |
Sponsored Program Funding
| Extramural, Tulane National Primate Research Center, AIDS SPF Breeding Colony Maintenance, NIH/OD | 07/2021 - 06/2025 |
| Extramural, Epigenetic Risk Factors in Comorbid Alcohol Use Disorder and Depression, NIAAA | 04/2021 - 04/2026 |
| Extramural, Maintenance of an SPF Macaque Breeding Colony for AIDS Research, NIH/OD | 02/2021 - 01/2025 |
| Extramural, Epigenetic risk factors for suicide in comorbid depression and alcohol use disorder, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | 10/2020 - 09/2022 |
| Extramural, Genomic sequencing to establish a macaque genotype and phenotype research resource, NIH/OD | 07/2020 - 06/2024 |
| Extramural, Translating ages in humans and model organisms across the lifespan, Delaware INBRE Pilot | 07/2019 - 07/2021 |
| Extramural, Tulane National Primate Research Center, NIH/OD | 07/2018 - 04/2023 |
| Intramural, Molecular mechanisms in the prefrontal cortex of impulsivity-mediated suicide risk, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience | 01/2017 - 07/2018 |
| Extramural, Tulane National Primate Research Center, AIDS SPF Breeding Colony Maintenance, NIH/OD | 08/2016 - 06/2021 |
| Extramural, The Southwest National Primate Research Center - Overall, NIH/OD | 05/2016 - 04/2019 |
| Extramural, Maintenance of an SPF Macaque Breeding Colony for AIDS Research, NIH/OD | 05/2016 - 01/2021 |
| Extramural, Research to Improve and Standardize Marmoset Nutrition and Dietary Husbandry, NIH/OD | 04/2016 - 03/2020 |
| Extramural, A Metabolomic Model of Aging in the Common Marmoset, NIA | 01/2014 - 10/2014 |
| Extramural, The NEPRC SPF Rhesus Macaque Breeding Colony, NIH/OD | 08/2012 - 03/2015 |
| Extramural, Functional genetic evolution of human brain and behavior, NIAAA | 08/2010 - 07/2015 |
| Intramural, Copy number variation in common marmosets, New England Primate Reserach Center | 02/2010 - 01/2012 |
| Extramural, Opioid receptor polymorphisms and nonhuman primate models of alcohol abuse, NIAAA | 09/2009 - 07/2015 |
| Intramural, Monoamine oxidase A variation in non-human primates, New England Primate Research Center | 02/2009 - 01/2011 |
| Extramural, Modeling the Neurogenetics of Serotonin Regulation, NIMH | 10/2007 - 07/2009 |
Publications
Journal Article | |
| Vallender EJ. Genetics of human brain evolution. Prog Brain Res. 2019;250:3-39. | 2019 |
| Gilmore RA, Hutchins SD, Zhang X, Vallender EJ. MicrobiomeR: An R Package for Simplified and Standardized Microbiome Analysis Workflows J. Open Source Software. 2019; 4(35):1299 | 2019 |
| Kondova I, Braskamp G, Heidt PJ, Collignon W, Haaksma T, de Groot N, Otting N, Doxiadis G, Westmoreland SV, Vallender EJ, Bontrop RE Spontaneous endometriosis in rhesus macaques: a useful pre-clinical model for investigation of potential genetic susceptibility Primate Biology. 2017; 4:117-125. | 2017 |
| Ogawa LM, Vallender EJ. Evolutionary conservation in genes underlying human psychiatric disorders. Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 May 6;8:283. | 2014 |
| Vallender EJ, Miller GM. Nonhuman primate models in the genomic era: a paradigm shift. ILAR J. 2013;54(2):154-65. | 2013 |
| Lynch LJ, Sullivan KA, Vallender EJ, Rowlett JK, Platt DM, Miller GM. Trace amine associated receptor 1 modulates behavioral effects of ethanol. Subst Abuse. 2013 Jun 4;7:117-26. | 2013 |
| Vallender EJ. How brains are built: genetics and evolution. Brain Behav Evol. 2013;81(2):71-3. | 2013 |
| Sweeney C, Ward J, Vallender EJ. Naturally occurring, physiologically normal, primate chimeras. Chimerism. 2012 Apr-Jun;3(2):43-4. | 2012 |
| Vallender EJ. Genetic correlates of the evolving primate brain. Prog Brain Res. 2012;195:27-44. | 2012 |
| Gokcumen O, Babb PL, Iskow RC, Zhu Q, Shi X, Mills RE, Ionita-Laza I, Vallender EJ, Clark AG, Johnson WE, Lee C. Refinement of primate copy number variation hotspots identifies candidate genomic regions evolving under positive selection. Genome Biol. 2011;12(5):R52. | 2011 |
| Vallender EJ Comparative genetic approaches to the evolution of human brain and behavior. Am J Hum Biol. 2011 Jan-Feb;23(1):53-64. | 2010 |
| Vallender EJ Exploring the origins of the human brain through molecular evolution. Brain Behav Evol. 2008;72(2):168-77. | 2008 |
| Chen FC, Vallender EJ, Wang H, Tzeng CS, Li WH Genomic divergence between human and chimpanzee estimated from large-scale alignments of genomic sequences J Hered. 2001 Nov-Dec;92(6):481-9. | 2001 |
Book Chapter | |
| Vallender EJ The Genome of the Common Marmoset In: R Marini, L Wachtman, S Tardif, K Mansfield JG Fox (eds.), The Common Marmoset in Captivity and Biomedical Research. Elsevier, Oxford, 2018. | 2018 |
| Vallender EJ Molecular evolution and phenotypic change Kaas, J (ed.), Evolution of Nervous Systems 2e. vol. 4, pp. 101–119. Oxford: Elsevier. | 2017 |
| Vallender EJ, Lahn BT Study of Human Brain Evolution at the Genetic Level D Broadfield, M Yuan, K Schick and N Toth, eds. The Human Brain Evolving: Paleoneurological Studies in Honor of Ralph L. Holloway. Gosport, IN: Stone Age Institute Press, 2010:107-118. | 2010 |
| Vallender EJ, Johnson WE Balancing selection in human evolution ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester | 2008 |
Presentations
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Development of Genetic Non-Human Primate Models of Disease, UMMC Department of Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences, Jackson, MS | 10/2020 |
| Platform Presentations, Attitudes towards genetic research in patients with bipolar disorder, Annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA | 05/2020 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Physiological and genetic effects on the gut microbiome of rhesus macaques, Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Biloxi, MS | 02/2020 |
| Regional Invited Seminars/Lectures, Nonhuman Primates in the Post-Genomic Era, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, LA | 12/2019 |
| Poster Presentation, Developing a Community-Informed Biopolar Biobank to Address Health Disparities, World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Los Angeles, CA | 10/2019 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Bioinformatic needs among the nonhuman primate genomics community, NIH/ORIP NHP Genetics and Genomics Working Group, Seattle, WA | 09/2019 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Identifying Genetic Variation in the Post-Genomic Era: From Sample Collection to Information Return, UMMC Bioinformatics Collaborative, Jackson, MS | 06/2019 |
| Platform Presentations, Effects of genetic polymorphism on ligand biased signaling: Mu-opioid receptor, Annual meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, San Antonio, TX | 06/2019 |
| Platform Presentations, Assessing Level of Interest and Reasons for Participation in a Genetic Biobank for Bipolar Disorder, Annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA | 05/2019 |
| Poster Presentation, Gene expression in the prefrontal cortex associated with impulsivity, NIDA and NIAAA Genetics and Epigenetics Research Meeting, Bethesda, MD | 01/2019 |
| Poster Presentation, Genetic effects on mu-opioid receptor ligand biased signaling, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA | 11/2018 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Gene expression in the prefrontal cortex associated with suicide and impulsivity, 2018 Mississippi IDeA Conference, Jackson, MS | 07/2018 |
| Platform Presentations, Gene expression in the prefrontal cortex associated with impulsivity, Annual Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, San Diego, CA | 06/2018 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Understanding Brain and Behavior through Comparative Genomics, Millsaps College Neuroscience Colloquium, Jackson, MS | 11/2017 |
| Poster Presentation, Genetic Effects of Mu-Opioid Receptor Ligand Biased Signaling, World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Orlando, FL | 10/2017 |
| Poster Presentation, Differential Gene Expression in the Prefrontal Cortex Associated with Suicide, World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Orlando, FL | 10/2017 |
| Regional Invited Seminars/Lectures, Differential Gene Expression in the Prefrontal Cortex Associated with Suicide, Southeast Regional IDeA Conference, Morgantown, WV | 10/2017 |
| Invited Symposia, Comparative Nonhuman Primate Genomics: Implications for Animal Models, Annual Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Montreal, QC, Canada | 06/2017 |
| Poster Presentation, Comparative mammalian genetics of addiction disorders, College of Problems of Drug Dependence, Montreal, QC, Canada | 06/2017 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, The Rhesus Macaque Gut Microbiome as a Model for Human Health and Disease, Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Hattiesburg, MS | 02/2017 |
| Poster Presentation, Mu opioid receptor ligand bias on GPCR signaling pathways, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA | 11/2016 |
| Poster Presentation, Unbiased gene profiling of the rhesus macaque mesolimbic system following long-term cocaine self-administration, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Palm Springs, CA | 06/2016 |
| Platform Presentations, Transcriptomic profiling of the ventral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens in rhesus macaques following long-term cocaine self-administration, Behavior and Neurogenetics of Nonhuman Primates, Cold Spring Harbor, New York | 11/2015 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Making sense of psychiatric genetics, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Grand Rounds, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS | 09/2015 |
| Poster Presentation, Functional and behavioral consequences of genetic variation in the dopaminergic system of rhesus macaques, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Phoenix, AZ | 06/2015 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Functionally Parallel Genetic Variation: Causes and Consequences, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS | 06/2015 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Comparative Functional Genetics in Understanding Human Brain and Behavior, Neuroscience Research Day, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS | 05/2015 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Basics of RNA-Sequencing Analysis: A case study, Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics Seminar Series, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS | 04/2015 |
| Invited Symposia, Detecting signatures of selection through interspecific comparisons, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2015, Big Island, HI | 01/2015 |
| Poster Presentation, Monkey genomes: A paradigm shift for advancing preclinical research and medications development for addictions, College of Problems of Drug Dependence, San Juan, PR | 06/2014 |
| Invited Symposia, Comparative Genomics of the Evolving Primate Brain, Human evolution: brain development in relation to placental function, The Royal Society at Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire, UK | 06/2014 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Comparative Genetic Approaches to Understanding Human Health and Evolution, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS | 05/2014 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Functional Nonhuman Primate Genetics: Beyond Demographics, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane National Primate Reseach Center, Covington, LA | 05/2014 |
| Poster Presentation, Subtle genetic stratification among Mauritian cynomolgus macaques, Symposium on biomedical research using Mauritian macaques, Madison, WI | 05/2014 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man, NEPRC Scientific Symposium, New England Primate Research Center, Southborough, MA | 12/2013 |
| Poster Presentation, Functional variation in the macaque dopamine D4 receptor in response to dopamine, anti-psychotics, and putative erectile dysfunction drugs, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA | 11/2013 |
| Poster Presentation, Substance use disorders and non-human primate 5-hydroxytrypatamine receptor polymorphisms, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA | 11/2013 |
| Poster Presentation, G-protein coupled receptor single-nucleotide polymorphism distribution in primate genomes, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA | 11/2013 |
| Poster Presentation, Comparative Functional Effects of Polymorphisms Affecting Psychiatric Disease and Treatment Across Species, World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Boston, MA | 10/2013 |
| Platform Presentations, Identification and functional characterization of polymorphism in macaque G-protein coupled receptors, Behavior and Neurogenetics of Nonhuman Primates, Cold Spring Harbor, NY | 09/2013 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Comparative Genetics and Understanding Human Disease, Summer Seminar Series, New England Primate Research Center, Southborough, MA | 07/2013 |
| Platform Presentations, Genetics-Driven Animal Models of Addiction through Next-Generation Sequencing, 75th Annual Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, San Diego, CA | 06/2013 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Functional Genetic Variation in Nonhuman Primates: Insights into Human Neuropsychiatric Health and Brain Evolution, Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI | 05/2013 |
| Invited Symposia, Functional genetic variation and the analysis of disease-related phenotypes in primates, 40th Association of Primate Veterinarians Workshop, St. Paul, MN | 11/2012 |
| Poster Presentation, Advancing genetic models and tools for translational neuroscience: Comparative functional studies of the mu-opioid receptor, Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA | 10/2012 |
| Poster Presentation, Large-scale polymorphism discovery in non-human primate G-protein coupled receptors, Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA | 10/2012 |
| Poster Presentation, A neurogenetic model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in non-human primates, Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA | 10/2012 |
| Platform Presentations, Functional genetic evolution of addiction: A new approach using comparative genetics for understanding drug dependence, 74th Annual Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Palm Springs, CA | 06/2012 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Primate Genetics in Context, Summer Seminar Series, New England Primate Research Center, Southborough, MA | 06/2012 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Genotype/Phenotype Associations in Non-Human Primates, Comparative Pathology Divisional Seminar Series, New England Primate Research Center, Southborough, MA | 04/2012 |
| Poster Presentation, The resurgence and genetic implications of New World primates in biomedical research, International Conference on Primate Genomics, Houston, TX | 04/2012 |
| Platform Presentations, Cross species comparisons of polymorphism in nonhuman primates, 5th International Conference on Primate Genomics, Houston, TX | 04/2012 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Better models of psychiatric disease through comparative genomics, HMS Department of Psychiatry Faculty and Fellows Colloquium, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA | 03/2012 |
| Invited Symposia, Exome resequencing in non-human primates, International Plant and Animal Genome XX, San Diego, CA | 01/2012 |
| Poster Presentation, Distinct evolutionary pressures on genes implicated in behavioral and neuropsychiatric disorders, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC | 12/2011 |
| Poster Presentation, Functional evolution of primate monoamine oxidase A and its implications for disease and treatment, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC | 11/2011 |
| Poster Presentation, Translational modeling the genetics of alcohol use disorders and treatment efficacy in a non-human primate model organism, World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Washington, DC | 10/2011 |
| Poster Presentation, Utility of Non-Human Primates to Model Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Abuse and Pharmacogenetic Response to Treatment, Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Abuse: NIDA/NIAAA Satellite Symposium, Washington, DC | 09/2011 |
| Regional Invited Seminars/Lectures, Developing non-human primate genetic models of neuropsychiatric and drug addiction disorders, Neuroscience Seminar Series, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA | 06/2011 |
| Poster Presentation, A naturally occurring rhesus monkey model of human mu-opioid receptor pharmacogenetics, International Narcotics Research Conference, Hollywood, FL | 06/2011 |
| Poster Presentation, Evolutionary implications for animal models in addiction research, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Hollywood, FL | 06/2011 |
| Platform Presentations, Comparative primate genetics: A new tool for neuroscience connecting function and disease, Neuroscience 2010 (Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience), San Diego, CA | 11/2010 |
| Platform Presentations, Non-human primate genetic models of serotonergic dysfunction in addiction and psychiatric disease, 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Scottsdale, AZ | 06/2010 |
| Poster Presentation, Using comparative and evolutionary genetics in non-human primates to understand human neurobiology and disease, International Conference on Primate Genomics, Seattle, WA | 04/2010 |
| Invited Symposia, Comparative genetic approaches for understanding the evolution of human brain and behavior, 35th Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Albuquerque, NM | 04/2010 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Ongoing genetic activity at the NEPRC, National Center for Research Resources Nonhuman Primate Genetics and Genomics Working Group, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, OR | 02/2010 |
| Poster Presentation, Functional evolution of the trace amine associated receptors during mammalian evolution and the loss of TAAR1 in dogs, Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL | 10/2009 |
| National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Using comparative genetics to understand human brain evolution and function, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD | 07/2009 |
| Invited Symposia, Using comparative genetics to understand the evolution and function of the human brain, Not Just a Matter of Gray and White: Exploring the Importance of Evolution, Genes and Experience on Brain Development, Bethesda, MD | 07/2009 |
| Platform Presentations, Novel Functional Variation at the Serotonin Transporter is Paralleled in Humans and Rhesus Macaques, Neuroscience 2008 (Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience), Washington, DC | 11/2008 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Comparative Genetic Approaches to the Neuroaminergic Systems, Instructor Search Seminar, New England Primate Research Center, Southborough, MA | 10/2008 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Primate Genetics and Genomics, Summer Seminar Series, New England Primate Research Center, Southborough, MA | 07/2008 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Genotype and Phenotype across Primates at the Serotonin Transporter, NeuroNoon Seminar Series, New England Primate Research Center, Southborough, MA | 05/2008 |
| Poster Presentation, Modeling human neurogenetic variation underlying alcoholism, drug abuse, and mental health disorders in non-human primates, International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society, Portland, OR | 05/2008 |
| Poster Presentation, Recapitulating Human Neurogenetics Variation in Rhesus Macaques: Serotonin Transporter, International Conference on Primate Genomics, Seattle, WA | 04/2008 |
| Invited Symposia, Exploring the origins of the human brain through molecular evolution, J.B. Johnston Journal Club and Karger Workshop, San Diego, CA | 11/2007 |
| Platform Presentations, Naturalistic modeling of the genetics of human neuropsychiatric and drug addiction disorders in non-human primates, XVth World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, New York, NY | 10/2007 |
Honors, Awards, and Recognition
| Diversity & Inclusion Champion, University of Mississippi Medical Center | 2019 |
| Trailblazer Teaching Award, University of Mississippi Medical Center | 2017 |
| Excellence in Research Award - Bronze, University of Mississippi Medical Center | 2015 |
| Alcohol Travel Award, International Society for Psychiatric Genetics | 2011 |
| Young Investigator Travel Award, International Narcotics Research Conference | 2011 |
| Outstanding Young Investigator Travel Award, International Society for Behavioral and Neural Genetics | 2008 |
| Best Poster, 3rd International Conference on Primate Genomics: Primate Genomics and Human Disease | 2008 |
| Young Scientist Travel Scholarship, International Society for Psychiatric Genetics | 2007 |
| Committee Award for Outstanding Performance in the General Field of Genetics, University of Chicago | 2006 |
| William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago | 2005 |
| Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Colgate-Palmolive | 1999 |
| Edmund James Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1996 |
Professional Membership and Service
| Southwest National Primate Research Center, Scientific Advisory Board | 2016 - 2019 |
| J.B.Johnston Club for Evolutionary Neuroscience, Member | 2012 - Present |
| International Narcotics Research Conference, Member | 2011 - 2014 |
| College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Member | 2010 - Present |
| International Society for Psychiatric Genetics, Member | 2007 - Present |
| International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society, Member | 2007 - 2014 |
| Society for Neuroscience, Member | 2006 - Present |
Committee Service
| SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-FACULTY APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS AND TENURE, Vice Chair | 2020 - Present |
| Neuroscience Research and Innovation Symposium Planning Committee, Member | 2019 - Present |
| SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES-GRADUATE COUNCIL, Member | 2019 - Present |
| Program in Neuroscience Admissions Committee, Chair | 2019 - Present |
| SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-FACULTY APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS AND TENURE, Member | 2019 - 2020 |
| Non-Human Primate New Model Development Working Group, NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs, Co-Chair | 2018 - Present |
| Non-Human Primate Specialized Breeding Working Group, NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs, Member | 2018 - 2019 |
| Program in Neuroscience Curriculum Committee, Member | 2018 - Present |
| Program in Neuroscience Executive Committee, Member | 2017 - Present |
| Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Promotions and Tenure Committee, Chair | 2017 - Present |
| Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds Committee, Member | 2016 - 2019 |
| Program in Neuroscience Admissions Committee, Member | 2016 - 2019 |
| Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Promotions and Tenure Committee, Member | 2016 - 2017 |
| Non-Human Primate DNA Banking Consortium, NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs, Chair | 2013 - 2015 |
| College on Problems of Drug Dependence Publications Committee, Member | 2011 - 2015 |
| Non-Human Primate DNA Banking Consortium, NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs, Member | 2007 - 2012 |
| Non-Human Primate Genetics and Genomics Working Group, NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs, Member | 2007 - Present |
Community Service
| UMMC Bipolar Disorder Community Advisory Board, Facilitator | 01/2019 - Present |
| United Methodist Mississippi Annual Conference Committee on Human Sexual Orientation, Advisor | 04/2017 - 06/2018 |
Other Service
| Human Frontier Science Program | 10/2020 - 10/2020 |
| California National Primate Research Center, Pilot Project Program | 05/2020 - 07/2020 |
| International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Molecular Genetics and Genomics Section | 04/2020 - Present |
| National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director, STOD Scientific and Technical Review Board on Biomedical and Behavioral Research Facilities | 06/2019 - 06/2019 |
| National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, ZNS1-SRB-M (08) Special Emphasis Panel | 03/2019 - 03/2019 |
| National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, ZNS1-SRB-M (07) Special Emphasis Panel | 12/2018 - 12/2018 |
| Leakey Foundation | 03/2018 - 03/2018 |
| National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, ZAG1-ZIJ Special Emphasis Panel | 01/2018 - 01/2018 |
| Neuroscience Institute Pilot Program | 10/2017 - 12/2017 |
| Journal of Medical Primatology | 08/2017 - Present |
| Intramural Research Support Program | 07/2017 - Present |
| Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience Pilot Grant Program | 03/2015 - 11/2015 |
| National Science Foundation, Biological Anthropology Program | 02/2015 - 11/2017 |
| NIH Intramural Review, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development | 08/2012 - 08/2012 |
| Health Research Council of New Zealand | 06/2012 - 06/2012 |
| Brain, Behavior and Evolution | 11/2011 - Present |
| ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) Research Commission | 06/2010 - 06/2010 |
| Addiction Biology | |
| Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research | |
| American Journal of Human Genetics | |
| American Journal of Primatology | |
| Biological Psychiatry | |
| BMC Bioinformatics | |
| BMC Evolutionary Biology | |
| BMC Genetics | |
| BMC Genomics | |
| Brain Behavior and Evolution | |
| Cell and Molecular Neurobiology | |
| Cell Research | |
| Clinical Science | |
| Current Medicinal Chemistry | |
| Evolution Medicine and Public Health | |
| Evolutionary Bioinformatics | |
| FASEB | |
| FEBS Letters | |
| Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | |
| Gene | |
| Genes Brain and Behavior | |
| Genome Biology | |
| Genome Biology and Evolution | |
| GigaScience | |
| Gut | |
| Heredity | |
| Human Mutation | |
| Immunogenetics | |
| International Journal of Biological Sciences | |
| International Journal of Primatology | |
| Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science | |
| Journal of Cellular Physiology | |
| Journal of Evolutionary Biology | |
| Journal of Human Evolution | |
| Journal of Hypertension | |
| Journal of Intellectual Disability Research | |
| Journal of Medical Primatology | |
| Journal of Molecular Evolution | |
| Journal of Neuroscience | |
| Journal of Pediatric Genetics | |
| Molecular Biology and Evolution | |
| Molecular Biology Reports | |
| Nature | |
| Nature Human Behaviour | |
| Physiological Genomics | |
| PLoS Genetics | |
| PLoS One | |
| Primate Biology | |
| Primates | |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | |
| Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | |
| Science Advances | |
| Translational Psychiatry |
Teaching Experience
| ID 713, Graduate, Course, Course Director, Bioinformatics and Genomics | Spring 2020 |
| NSCI 720, Graduate, Small Group, Course Director, Neuroscience Journal Club | Annual 2018 |
| NSCI 708, Graduate, Small Group, Lecturer, Special Topics in Neuroscience (Ligand Bias) | Summer 2017 |
| ID 713, Graduate, Lecture, Course Director, Bioinformatics and Genomics | Spring 2017 |
| NSCI 710, Graduate, Lecture, Guest Presenter, Tutorials in Neuroscience (Statistics) | Annual 2016 |
| NSCI 701, Graduate, Lecture, Guest Presenter, Foundations of Neuroscience | Annual 2016 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Advanced Psychopathology | Annual 2015 |
| PSYCH 631, Medicine, Small Group, Facilitator, Junior Clerkship in Psychiatry | Annual 2015 |
| NSCI 791, Graduate, Lab, Mentor, Senior Laboratory Rotations | Annual 2015 |
Directed Student Learning
| Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Advised: Jaren Reeves-Darby | 2020 - Present |
| Qualifying Exam Committee, Chair, Advised: Jaren Reeves-Darby | 2020 - 2020 |
| Qualifying Exam Committee, Chair, Advised: Maria Muhammad | 2020 - 2020 |
| Qualifying Exam Committee, Chair, Advised: Charles Barnes | 2020 - 2020 |
| Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Advised: John Aaron Howell | 2019 - Present |
| Supervised Research, Advised: D. Mitch Lang | 2019 - 2019 |
| Qualifying Exam Committee, Chair, Advised: John Aaron Howell | 2019 - 2019 |
| Qualifying Exam Committee, Vice-Chair, Advised: Kendra Stansak | 2019 - 2019 |
| Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Advised: Kathryn Hellmann | 2018 - Present |
| Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Advised: C. Austin Zamarripa | 2018 - Present |
| Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Advised: Graham Casey | 2018 - Present |
| Qualifying Exam Committee, Member, Advised: Redin Spann | 2018 - 2018 |
| Supervised Research, Advised: Mary Clay Bailey | 2018 - 2018 |
| Supervised Research, Advised: Carlie Reeves | 2018 - 2018 |
| Supervised Research, Advised: Kameron Boulton | 2017 - 2018 |
| Master's Thesis Committee Member, Advised: Isaiah Tolo | 2016 - 2016 |
| Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Altered neuro-inflammatory gene expression in hippocampus in major depressive disorder Advised: Gouri Mahajan | 2015 - 2017 |
| Qualifying Exam Committee, Member, Advised: Cassie Chandler | 2015 - 2015 |
| Supervised Research, Advised: Yunhee Youn | 2015 - 2015 |
| Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Genetic Effects on Ligand Biased GPCR Second Messenger Signaling in Mu Opioid Receptors Advised: Xiao Zhang | 2015 - 2019 |
| Supervised Research, Advised: Juliette Rando | 2012 - 2013 |
| Supervised Research, Advised: Alex Buslov | 2012 - 2013 |
| Supervised Research, Advised: Paul Anton | 2011 - 2011 |
| Supervised Research, Advised: Erin Sadler | 2010 - 2011 |
| Supervised Research, Advised: Andrea Simoni | 2009 - 2009 |
| Supervised Research, Advised: Maurine Braun | 2009 - 2009 |
Fellows supervised
| Research Advisor, 2 fellows supervised | 03/2011 - 10/2014 |
Residency Training
| Psychiatry, Research Advisor | 2019 - Present |