Dr. Teresa (Terri) Aubele

Current Projects

I will be examining the role of gonadal steroid hormones in the control male sexual behavior. In particular, I am going to investigate the role of androgens and estrogens in the MPOA of the adult male rats and how they may modulate the interactions of the neurotransmistters glutamate and dopamine in the rat MPOA and subsequent effects on sexual behavior.

Completed Projects

Hormone Influence on the Mesocortical Dopaminergic System: An Integrated Behavioral, Anatomical and In Vivo Physiological Characterization in Adult Male Rat. This project encompassed my dissertation research, which aimed to assess the role of androgens in regulating the prefrontal cortical dopaminergic system in the adult male rat. This dissertation research was supported by the National Institutes of Neurological Disorder and Stroke (NINDS RO1-NS41966) to my graduate advisor, Dr. Mary Kritzer.

Awards and Honors

• 3/2001
  Henry David Thoreau Scholarship, Henry David Thoreau Society, Boston, MA
• 9/2002- 5/2005
  Southampton College Honors Society Member and Vice-President, Southampton College of Long Island University, Southampton, NY
• 2/2003
  Student Member of Faculty/Student Activity Planning Committee, Southampton College Honors Society, Southampton College of Long Island University, Southampton, NY
• 4/2004
  Awarded Youth Activity Fund Grant for Independent Undergraduate Research (Ecuador), The Explorer's Club, New York, New York
• 5/2005
  Graduated Summa Cum Laude in Psychobiology, Southampton College of Long Island University, Southampton, NY
• 11/2007
  Outstanding Oral Presentation, Program in Neuroscience Annual Student Symposium, Stony Brook, NY
• 11/2008
  Outstanding Manuscript Award, Program in Neuroscience, Stony Brook, NY
• 1/2009
  Selected for graduate student profile in The Graduate Review, Stony Brook University Graduate School Newsletter, Vol. V No. IV, Winter 2008-2009
• 2/2009
  Student Member of Student/Faculty Grievance Committee, Program in Neuroscience, Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
• 4/2009
  Outstanding Presentation Award 2009, Graduate Student Category, Women in Medicine Annual Research Day, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Abstracts/Colloquia

• Aubele, T.M., Liu, A., Kritzer, M.F. (2009). Comprehensive mapping of intracellular androgen receptor immunoreactivity among neurons projecting to the ventral tegmental area So. Neurosci. Abstr. 773.2/EE53
• Aubele, T.M., Meyers B., Liu A., Kritzer M.F. (2008) Gonadectomy in adult male rats increases extracellular dopamine levels in the prefrontal cortex: possible causative roles for effects on the norepinephrine transporter, but not the dopamine transporter or the enzyme catechol-O-methyltransferase So. Neurosci. Abstr. 392.1/UU1
• Aubele, T., Kaufman, R., Montalmant F., Kritzer M.F. (2007) Effects of gonadectomy and hormone replacement on a spontaneous novel object recognition task in adult male rats. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 309.13/DDD21
• Vaska, P., Woody, C.L., Schlyer, D.J., Radeka, V., O'Connor, P., Pratte, J.-F., Shokouhi, S., Stoll, S.P., Junnarkar, S.S., Purschke, M., Park, S.-J., Southekal, S., Dzhordzhadze, V., Schiffer, W., Neill, J., Murphy, M., Aubele, T., Kristiansen, R., Villanueva, A., Boose, S., Kandasamy, A., Yu, B., Kriplani, A., Krishnamoorthy, S., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R.,(2005) Initial performance of the RatCAP, a PET camera for conscious rat brain imagine. Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, IEEE 1082-3654

Teaching Experience

• 1/2006 - 5/2006
  Laboratory Instructor, Cellular and Organ Physiology, Stony Brook University. 50 Undergraduate Students, 46 Lecture Hours, 46 Office Hours
• 8/2006 - 12/2006
  Laboratory Instructor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stony Brook University. 35 Undergraduate Students, 23 Lecture Hours, 23 Office Hours
• 1/2007 - 5/2007
  Teaching Assistant, Principles of Neurobiology, Stony Brook University. 300 Undergraduate Students, 20 Office Hours, 1 Lecture Hour
• 9/2007 - 11/2007
  Guest Instructor, Principles of Neuroscience (Master's Course) Stony Brook University. 22 Master's Students, 2 Lecture Hours

Selected Recent Publications