Stacy Pitcairn, M.S.

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

[WFU Brain Awareness Council @bac_wfu]

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 ⬇️

https://t.co/WgJDgcUEl7

[Jeff Weiner @jlweiner1]

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.
https://t.co/gs5Lwft4hi

[Alex Ip 葉清霖 is alexip718.bsky.social @AlexIp718]

You've seen a lot of the devastation around Asheville this weekend.

I just want to share some photos I took during a yet-to-be-published reporting project in Western North Carolina last year.

Appalachia is too beautiful for us to give up. We must help our neighbors rebuild.

[Julia Bacci @JuliaRBacci]

I’m excited to share Sarrah Ankeny’s and my first first-author publication, “Navigating the Landscape of Plasma Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease: Focus on Past, Present, and Future Clinical Applications”, is now available in @Neurology_Ther!

Check it out at the link below:

[Stacy Pitcairn, M.S. @stacy_pit]

Can’t think of someone more hardworking and deserving of this good news - congratulations Olivia! ☺️🎉

[Olivia Ortelli @OrtelliOlivia]

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 available🥂🥤

[Jeff Weiner @jlweiner1]

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!!

[Stacy Pitcairn, M.S. @stacy_pit]

@bac_wfu 🐾

[WFU Brain Awareness Council @bac_wfu]

✨Wake Student Spotlight✨- Stacy Pitcairn in the @jlweiner1 lab, who is researching the relationship between stress & alcohol use @stacy_pit @WakeNeuroGrad @WFUbiomedgrad

[Stacy Pitcairn, M.S. @stacy_pit]

@MackenzieMtn @ComSciCon Literally 😭

[Stacy Pitcairn, M.S. @stacy_pit]

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.

[WFU Brain Awareness Council @bac_wfu]

What’s one benefit of doing neuroscience research? Traveling to CONFERENCES! ✈️ 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! 🧠🍻@WakeNeuroGrad @WakeIPP

[Stacy Pitcairn, M.S. @stacy_pit]

@mandysalazar21 @SamCentanni Really looking forward to reading this!

[Ashley (Hayden) Monahan, PhD @ANHayden1997]

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!

[WFU Brain Awareness Council @bac_wfu]

Watch out for these creatures of the deep during your next beach trip! 🦈 Inspired by the movie “Jaws”, 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

[Stacy Pitcairn, M.S. @stacy_pit]

@MilliporeSigma @OrtelliOlivia !!!! #SigmaAldrichChocolate

[Jeff Weiner @jlweiner1]

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

[Stacy Pitcairn, M.S. @stacy_pit]

Hey that’s me 😁 Can’t wait to meet the upcoming #ComSciCon24 participants! 🎉

[ComSciCon @ComSciCon]

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.

[Jeff Weiner @jlweiner1]

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)!

[Stacy Pitcairn, M.S. @stacy_pit]

Congratulations Amanda!! Can’t wait to see what you do next 🤩🎉💗

[Sam Centanni @SamCentanni]

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!

[ComSciCon @ComSciCon]

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: https://t.co/Ewi9Xd7SrV