PhD candidate in the Weiner lab at @wakeneurograd. William & Mary alum. Interests include stress and alcohol research, #scicomm, and scary movies šŸ€šŸ§  she/her

Winston-Salem, NC
Joined February 2021
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How do brain cells talk to each other? 🧠Wake Forest PhD student @Colin_McArdle95 talks about synaptic communication in his recently published blog post in @cogbites! For more info, check it out below ā¬‡ļø cogbites.org/2025/01/27/syna…
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Really excited to have this out. Thanks to the brilliant work of @OrtelliOlivia, we now have a rodent operant ethanol/sucrose choice procedure based on the classic Samson sipper tube drinking paradigm. doi.org/10.1016/j.addicn.202…
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I’m excited to share Sarrah Ankeny’s and my first first-author publication, ā€œNavigating the Landscape of Plasma Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease: Focus on Past, Present, and Future Clinical Applicationsā€, is now available in @Neurology_Ther! Check it out at the link below:
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Can’t think of someone more hardworking and deserving of this good news - congratulations Olivia! ā˜ŗļøšŸŽ‰
I'm very excited to announce that my F31 has been funded! This grant will fund the completion of my doctoral research investigating how the brain encodes decisions to drink alcohol, even when there are also alternative non-alcohol containing beverages availablešŸ„‚šŸ„¤
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Stacy Pitcairn, M.S. retweeted
Congrats @OrtelliOlivia on developing the first operant choice procedure integrating the Hank Samson sipper tube model. Can't wait to see what your studies reveal!!
I'm very excited to announce that my F31 has been funded! This grant will fund the completion of my doctoral research investigating how the brain encodes decisions to drink alcohol, even when there are also alternative non-alcohol containing beverages availablešŸ„‚šŸ„¤
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✨Wake Student Spotlight✨- Stacy Pitcairn in the @jlweiner1 lab, who is researching the relationship between stress & alcohol use @stacy_pit @WakeNeuroGrad @WFUbiomedgrad
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Had the best time working on the organizing committee to put together the @ComSciCon Flagship Workshop in Boston this past week! So grateful to work with such creative, energetic, and brilliant people and continue developing impactful ways to talk about science to the public.
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What’s one benefit of doing neuroscience research? Traveling to CONFERENCES! āœˆļø This past June several @WFUbiomedgrad students attended the 2024 Research Society on Alcohol Meeting in Minneapolis, MN to present their research on alcohol and the brain! šŸ§ šŸ»@WakeNeuroGrad @WakeIPP
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Super excited to be at @ComSciCon for this year’s Flagship Conference! We have so many incredible speakers lined up over the next few days. #comscicon24 has officially begun to take over Boston!
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Watch out for these creatures of the deep during your next beach trip! 🦈 Inspired by the movie ā€œJawsā€, let’s take a dive into how sharks use their brains to navigate the ocean and hunt down prey. #shark #sharkbrain #Jaws Post designed by @stacy_pit
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If you have any interest in a preclinical perspective on salience encoding and alcohol use disorder, be sure to come by our session at @RSAposts tomorrow (Tues, June 24, 9:15-10:30, Nicollet D) featuring @kaabrahao @NathanJMarchant @KristineHYoon & @HopfWoody
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Hey that’s me 😁 Can’t wait to meet the upcoming #ComSciCon24 participants! šŸŽ‰
Meet #ComSciCon24 Organizers! Stacy Pitcairn (@stacy_pit) is a neuroscience PhD student at @wakeforestmed. Her research focuses on how stress can alter brain regions that are involved in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder/addiction.
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Thanks to everyone who came out for our first Wake Forest Translational Alcohol Reseach Center Student Research Showcase. All the talks and posters were outstanding and congrats to the winners of the poster competition (1st- @OrtelliOlivia, 2nd- Aditi Buch & @stacy_pit)!
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Congratulations Amanda!! Can’t wait to see what you do next šŸ¤©šŸŽ‰šŸ’—
Congratulations to my first graduate student @mandysalazar21 for successfully defending her master’s thesis! Amanda has been an integral part of the lab and I’m so proud of everything she’s accomplished. Excited for her future endeavors!
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Today is the day! Send us your applications by 11:59pm EST tonight to attend #ComSciCon24 this summer! Connect with other #scicomm experts, develop your skills, have fun meeting people from all over the world. We look forward to meeting you! Apply here: bit.ly/3uMJGv2
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Stacy Pitcairn, M.S. retweeted
Another successful Brain Awareness Day on March 23rd! 🧠 Thank you to our fantastic co-presidents, @mandysalazar21 & @Bethany_Pierce_ for organizing this event, all our student volunteers for showing up, and @kaleideum for hosting us! #brainawarenessday – at Winston-Salem, NC
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šŸ“¢Attention graduate studentsšŸ“¢ Interested in #SciComm? Applications are due on March 22nd to come join us at #ComSciCon24! bit.ly/3uMJGv2. Its from July 24-27 at the beautiful Emerson College campus in the heart of Boston, MA. Stay tuned for more soon--
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Can’t recommend this workshop enough!
We are thrilled to announce that the ComSciCon 2024 Flagship Workshop will be held July 24-27, 2024 at Emerson College in Boston, MA! Apply by March 22 for an all expenses paid opportunity to meet experts and leaders in #SciComm and hone your skills (🧵): bit.ly/3uMJGv2
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ā°START THE COUNTDOWNā° - 29 more days till Brain Awareness Day at the Kaleideum Museum in Downtown Winston-Salem! Please join us for a fun & interactive day to learn about neuroscience & the brain. 🧠🧠 Hope to see you all there! #kaleideum #neuro – at Winston-Salem, NC
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