About Audrey

To call Audrey Pierce a “technician” would not do her justice. She provides much of the behind-the-scenes “glue” that keeps the laboratory a highly-functioning one. Audrey manages all aspects of procurement and business for the laboratory. She also takes on the most formidable “management” task: raising the young Colin Pierce! Prior to Colin's birth in 1999, Audrey was actively involved in research; her publications appear below.

Outside of research and family, Audrey has many interests including building the largest book collection on the East Coast, photographing historical tombstones, and finishing multiple sodoku and crossword puzzles a day.

Some of Audrey’s Publications

Repeated stimulation of L-type calcium channels in the rat ventral tegmental area mimics the initiation of behavioral sensitization to cocaine
Licata SC, Freeman AY, Pierce-Bancroft AF, Pierce RC. Psychopharmacology, September 2000. 152(1): 110-118.

Neurotrophin-3 Contributes to the Initiation of Behaviorial Sensitization to cocaine by Activating the Ras/Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signal Transduction Cascade
Pierce RC, Pierce-Bancroft AF, Prasad BM. Journal of Neuroscience, October 1999. 19(19): 8685-95.