Aaron D. Fobian earned her B.A. in Psychology from Samford University in 2008 and her Ph.D. in Clinical/Medical Psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2013. She completed her clinical internship at Baylor College of Medicine in 2013, and in 2014 she completed her psychology post-doctoral fellowship in the Leadership Education in Adolescent Medicine (LEAH) program in the Department of Pediatrics at UAB. Currently she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at...
Caitlin Wolford Clevenger is an Assistant Professor and Researcher-Clinician in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and completed her clinical psychology residency at the UAB/BVAMC Clinical Psychology Training Consortium in 2019. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Addiction Research in the Department of Psychiatry at UAB. She is a K23 (Career Development Award) recipient thr...
Dr. Lucas joined the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurobiology as an Assistant Professor in July 2022. Her doctoral and postdoctoral training has spanned almost every subdiscipline of neuroscience, from behavioral to molecular to systems. Her doctoral research was conducted in the laboratory of Dr. Rita Cowell in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology at the UAB. She combined molecular biology with genetic approaches in mouse models to determine novel region- and cell-...
We use laboratory mice to investigate the neuronal and molecular substrates that govern motivation, palatability, taste, and ingestion to develop novel and more effective treatments for obesity and eating disorders. Combined with neural circuit tools like optogenetics, chemogenetics, and biosensors, our work maps neural circuit function onto discrete aspects of conserved feeding behavior. hardawaylab.org
My major research interest is the neurobiological regulation of reward-related memory systems in the brain and the role of these systems in drug addiction. My laboratory approaches this broad topic at diverse levels of analysis that integrate molecular, genetic, and epigenetic tools with techniques that probe the function of single neurons and entire neuronal circuits. My ultimate goal is to understand epigenetic regulation in normal and disease states, and to use tools that manipulate the epige...
