About Lisa

Lisa is currently a postdoc working both with Dr. Pierce & Dr. Julie Blendy at UPenn. She graduated with a B.S. from Bates College and received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She hopes to eventually pursue a faculty position in academia.

Lisa is working with the mouse self-administration model to study reinstatement of drug-seeking. She is particularly interested in the molecular mechanisms of stress-induced reinstatement and the role of glutamate receptors in reinstatement.