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Dr. Elizabeth Bless Liz earned her Bachelor’s degree at Colby College where she majored in Psychology with a concentration in French. She spent 3 years post graduation working at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Psychopharmacology Department as part of a clinical research team investigating biological correlates of depression. She then received her Master’s degree in Biological Psychology from Northeastern University where her thesis centered on the involvement of the opioid system in feeding behavior. She continued on to receive her Doctorate in Neuroscience from Boston College where she studied the effects of ovarian hormones on mesolimbic dopamine. Dr. Bless subsequently worked as a post doctoral fellow at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center where she was awarded an NRSA postdoctoral fellowship for her work on the chemokinetics involved in the development of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone system. In addition she collaborated with a neighboring laboratory in the investigation of chemoattractants and chemorepellents involved in neuronal migration. Liz’s experience also includes 5 years in the biotech industry in drug development in the area of stroke research. Her technical and research expertise include stereotaxic surgery, neuroanatomy, motivation and reward, behavioral analysis, neuroendocrinology, chronoamperometry, brain stimulation reward, MCAO surgery, learning and memory, video microscopy, confocal microscopy, developmental biology, statistical analysis, immunohistochemistry, cell culture, tissue culture, neuroprotection, real-time PCR, protein analysis and developmental neurobiology. |