Join us for “Beyond Depression: An Emerging Role for Serotonin in the Pathophysiology of Neurological Disease" a keynote presentation by Dr. Catherine Marcinkiewcz, School of Medicine – Neurology, Psychological Sciences, MizzouForward faculty candidate.  Dr. Marcinkiewcz will present on her research for approximately 40-minutes with a 20-minute question and answer session to follow.

Dr. Catherine Marcinkiewcz received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Florida and completed her postdoctoral studies at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. There, she published 11 peer-reviewed articles, including a first-author paper in Nature, and received multiple awards including a postdoctoral F32 fellowship and an NIH/NIAAA K99/R00 transition to independence award. In 2018, she started a faculty position at the University of Iowa in the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, and her lab focuses on understanding the role of pathological changes in monoaminergic neurons in neurological disease.

Dr. Marcinkiewcz’s lab is interested in how environmental and lifestyle factors such as stress, alcohol consumption, sleep deprivation, and immune dysregulation can remodel central serotonin circuits to disrupt affect regulation, reward-related processes, and endocrine function and render individuals more susceptible to psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. The long-term goal of this research is to decipher the physiological basis of neurological disorders and facilitate the development of novel therapeutic interventions.

You can access Dr. Marcinkiewcz’s CV via OneDrive here:

 Marcinkiewcz-CV4.pdf (University log in required to access)

After the keynote, please provide candidate feedback with our brief survey.