Yale/NIDA Neuroproteomics Center Pilot Project Grants

#	Year	Principal Investigator	Title	University	Project Title
60	2023	Yifei Cai	Associate Research Scientist	Yale U.	Cell-type-specific Proteomics in Human Brains Using Immunopanning and Antibody-based Proximity Labeling
59	2023	Soren Emerson	NIDA Prodoctoral Fellow	Vanderbilt U.	Investigating the Cell Type-Specific Recruitment of the SAGA Complex in Cocaine Use Disorder
58	2023	Nadine Kabbani	Associate Professor	George Mason U.	Sex-Specific Proteomic Adaptations in Microglia in Response to Nicotine Treatment and Withdrawal
57	2023	Angela Redmond	Assistant Research Professor	Marshall U.	Understanding Biased CB1R Signaling Through Phospho-Proteomics
56	2023	Alexandra Fall	PhD Student	U. Maryland	Investigating the Central Amygdala Neuronal Proteome Mediating the Protective Effect of Social Reward on Incubation of Heroin Craving
55	2023	Isabel Gameiro-Ros (with Paul Slesinger)	Postdoctoral Fellow	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Proteomic Profiling of Glutamate Neurotransmission Alterations with Chronic THC and/or Ethanol Exposure in the Context of Addiction in iPSC-derived Human Excitatory Neurons
54	2022	Vena Martinez	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Targeted Discovery and Characterization of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Causal Genes Through Proteomic Analysis of Human Brain Regions
53	2022	Ken Loh	Assistant Professor	Yale U.	Developing new enzymatic scaffolds for proximity labeling brain regions
52	2022	Sarah Jefferson	Psychiatry Resident	Yale U.	Short- and Long-term Proteomic Changes in Dendritic Spines Induced by Psychedelic Compounds with Therapeutic Applications
51	2022	Zuhair Abdulla (with Marina Picciotto)	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Synaptoproteomic Correlates of Stress-induced Acetylcholine Release in mPFC: Mechanistic Evaluation of Depression/addiction Co-morbidity
50	2022	Xiaofan Li (with Paul Slesinger)	Instructor	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Mapping Methamphetamine-induced Changes in the GIRK Channel Interaction Proteome
49	2022	Candice Paulsen	Assistant Professor	Yale U.	Proteomic Analysis of Protein Partners that Govern TRPA1 Trafficking and Functionality
48	2021	Ethan Anderson (with Christopher Cowan)	Research Assistant Professor	Medical U. South Carolina	Phospholipase Cgamma1 in the Nucleus Accumbens Reduces Heroin-Seeking: Effects on Synaptic Phospholipids and the Synaptoproteome
47	2021	Anissa Bara (with Yasmin Hurd)	Postdoctoral Fellow	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Placenta and Neurodevelopmental Effects of in utero Cannabis Exposure
46	2021	Cheng Jiang (with Christopher Pittenger)	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Stress-induced Sex- and Cell Type-specific Proteomic Changes in the Striatum: Impact on Substance Abuse
45	2021	Pradeep Kurup (with James Bibb)	Instructor	U. Alabama	Proteomic Characterization of κOR and Cdk5 Signaling Pathway in Rodent Nucleus Accumbens: Implications in Cocaine Addiction
44	2021	Yun Young Yim (with Eric Nestler)	Postdoctoral Fellow	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Cell-type-specific Proteomic Profiling of Synaptosomes During Early and Extended Withdrawal from Self-administered Cocaine
43	2020	Suhas Ganesh (with Mohini Ranganathan)	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Capturing Altered Brain Proteomic Signaling in Young Onset Cannabis Use Disorder in the Periphery Leveraging Label Free Proteomic Analysis of Neuron Derived Circulating Exosomes
42	2020	Rebecca Hofford	Postdoctoral Associate	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Investigation of the Adolescent Gut Microbiome as a Unique Driver of Protein Expression in Medial Prefrontal Cortex After Opioid Exposure
41	2020	Valeria Lallai	Postdoctoral Associate	U. Cal. Irvine	Proteomics of THC-mediated Changes in Extracellular Vesicle Signaling
40	2020	Anna Moszczynska	Associate Professor	Wayne State U.	Investigating Proteins Mediating Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Parkin-Induced Attenuation of Methamphetamine Relapse
39	2021	Stephanie Puig (with Ryan Logan)	Senior Research Scientist	Boston U.	Identifying The PDGFRβ Signaling Pathways That Mediate Opioid Tolerance
38	2020	Yotam Sagi	Senior Research Associate	Rockefeller U.	Protein Analysis from Organelles and Cellular Compartments of Neuronal Populations
37	2021	Summer Thompson (with Jane Taylor)	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Profiling Microbial Metabolites To Elucidate The Relationship Between SCFAs, Intestinal Permeability, and Alcohol
36	2019	Kristen Brennand	Associate Professor	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Impact of NRXN1α Alternative Splicing Changes on Synaptic Composition
35	2019	Yifei Cai (with Jaime Grutzendler)	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Proteomic Screening of Neuronal and Glial Subcellular Compartments Isolated by Proximity Labeling and FACS in Fixed and Fresh Brain Samples
34	2019	Mohammad Shahid Mansuri (with Angus Nairn)	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Ultra-deep Brain Tyrosine Phosphoproteomic Profiling by SH2-Superbinder
33	2019	James Quinn (with Steve Arnold)	Postdoctoral Fellow	Mass. General Hospital	Analyzing the Role of Neuropeptides in the Neurobiology and Physiology of Addiction

32	2018	Caleb Browne (with Eric Nestler)	Postdoctoral Fellow	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Proteomic Profiling of NAc Synaptosomes During Early and Extended Withdrawal from Self-administered Cocaine
31	2018	Ayanabha Chakraborti (with James Bibb)	Senior Research Associate	U. Alabama at Birmingham	Profiling the Nucleus Accumbens Proteome in an Experimental Model of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
30	2018	Tina Franklin (with Ron Duman)	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Stress-induced Dysregulation in Microglial HMGB1 Signaling
29	2018	Stephanie Groman (with Jane Taylor)	Associate Research Scientist	Yale U.	A "Targeted" Approach to Identify the Proteins Underlying the Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Addiction
28	2018	Angela Lee (with Marina Picciotto)	MD/PhD Student	Yale U.	Sex Differences in Nicotine-induced Changes of the Mouse Brain Proteome
27	2017	L. Devi and D. Schechtman	Professor and Assoc. Professor	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and U. Sao Paulo, Brazil	Identification of Protein Kinase C Targets Leading to Opioid Tolerance
26	2017	D. Kiraly	Assistant Professor	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Characterization of Proteomic Changes in the Nucleus Accumbens in Response to Chronic Granulocyte-colony Stimulating Factor and Cocaine
25	2017	M. Girgenti	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Post Mortem Proteomic Characterization of Human Subgenual Prefrontal Cortex in Tobacco Abuse and PTSD
24	2017	M. Wolf and A. Li	Professor and Postdoctoral Associate	Chicago Medical School and Behavioral Neuroscience Branch, NIDA	Projection-specific Proteomics in Striatum and Its Glutamatergic Afferents in Incubation of Craving to Psychostimulants (Cocaine and Methamphetamine)
23	2016	T. Cijsouw (with T. Biederer)	Postdoctoral Scholar	Tufts U.	Mapping the Proteome of the Synaptic cleft Through Peroxidase-Based Reporter Proteins
22	2016	R. Logan	Assistant Professor	U. Pittsburgh	Identifying Circadian Regulated Proteins in Specific Cell Types of the Nucleus Accumbens involved in Cocaine Reward
21	2016	M. Miller (with M. Picciotto)	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	A Systematic Evaluation of High-Affinity α4β2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Phosphorylation
20	2017	M. Monsey (with J. Taylor)	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Profiling the neuronal proteome of the lateral amygdala following cocaine-cue memory retrieval and systemic garcinol administration
19	2017	R. Taugher	Postdoctoral Fellow	U. Iowa	Role of ASIC1A in regulating the NAc proteome in both the drug naïve and cocaine withdrawn states
18	2017	E. Yan	Professor	Yale U.	Role of dimerization in modulating sensitivity and dynamic range of ligand sensing in family CG protein coupled receptors
17	2015	B. Carlyle (with A. Nairn)	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Assessing Proteomic Differences Between the Two Types of Major Cell Types of the Striatum
16	2015	A. Koleske	Professor	Yale U.	Mechanisms of Cocaine-Induced Dendritic Spine Refinement and Plasticity
15	2015	J. Uys (with P. Kalivas)	Assistant Professor	Medical U. South Carolina	Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of S-Glutathionylated Proteins after Cocaine-Induced Reinstatement
14	2015	J. Xu (with P. Lombroso)	Assoc. Res. Sci.	Yale U.	Post-Translational Modification of STEP₆₁ by BDNF Signalling: Implications in Drug Abuse
13	2012	R. Kitchen (with A. Nairn)	Postdoctoral Associate	Yale U.	Toward Improved Label-free Quantification of MS/MS Spectra Using Predicted Proteomes
12	2011	S. Chandra	Assistant Professor	Yale U.	Phosphoinositides, Synaptic Signalling, Drug Addiction, and Neurodegeneration
11	2011	M. Koelle	Associate Professor	Yale U.	Proteomic Analysis of Lysine Acetylation of the Neural G Protein Gαo and Its Role in Serotonin Signaling
10	2011	T. McClure-Begley (with M. Picciotto)	Postdoctoral Fellow	Yale U.	Defining the nAChR Interactome
9	2011	S. Sathyanesan	Assistant Professor	Yale U.	Development of Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers for Neuropsychiactric Disorders
8	2010	J. Bibb	Associate Professor	U. Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Phosphoprotein Analysis of the Effects of Cocaine on NMDA Receptor Regulation
7	2010	J. Rinehart	Assistant Professor	Yale U.	Global MRM Atlas of the Human Kinome
6	2010	A.J. Robison (with E. Nestler)	Postdoctoral Fellow	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Neuronal Subtype-Specific Effects of the Transcription Factor delta FosB on Synaptic Physiology
5	2010	M. Torregrossa (with J. Taylor)	Assoc. Res. Sci.	Yale U.	Identification of Proteins that are Differentially Activated by Drug Cue memory Extinction and Reconsolidation in the Amygdala and Nucleus Accumbens Using Phosphoproteomics
4	2009	T. Biederer	Associate Professor	Yale U.	Identification and Analysis of Protein Complexes Mediating Synapse Formation
3	2009	S. Chandra	Assistant Professor	Yale U.	Neuronal Substrates Required for Synapse Maintenance
2	2009	M. Morabito	Assistant Professor	U. Mass.	Cdk5-Dependent Post-translational Modifications of PSD-95
1	2009	S. Sathyanesan	Assistant Professor	Yale U.	A Proteomics and Genomics Characterization of the Choroid Plexus: Protein and Gene Regulation by Psychotropic Drugs