SUNY Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Harvard
Phone: (631) 632-4801
Fax: (631) 632-6661
Lorna.Role@stonybrook.edu
Training
Lorna Role earned a B.A. degree in Applied Mathematics in 1975 and a PhD in Physiology in 1981, both from Harvard University . After three years of postdoctoral study with Dr Gerald Fischbach she was appointed an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University. She was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1992, and in 1996 was promoted full Professor. From 1996 to 2008, she also held the position of Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. In 2001 she was elected a member of The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). In 2006 she was awarded the Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Prize for Innovative Research related to Schizophrenia (NARSAD) and in 2007- 2008 received a second NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award. In 2008, she joined the State University of New York at Stony Brook as Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. In 2009 she was advanced to Fellow of the ACNP and in 2010 was the recipient of an NIH Directors Pioneer award. In 2011 she has become a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2016 she has been named a SUNY Distinguished Professor.
Research Interests/Expertise
- Publications
- Honors, Awards & Leadership
- Laboratory Personnel
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- Ballinger EC, Ananth M, Talmage DA, Role LW (2016), Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Circuits and Signaling in Cognition and Cognitive Decline, Neuron 21;91(6):1199-218.
- Jiang L, Kundu S, Lederman JD, López-Hernández GY, Ballinger EC, Wang S, Talmage DA, Role LW (2016), Cholinergic Signaling Controls Conditioned Fear Behaviors and Enhances Plasticity of Cortical-Amygdala Circuits, Neuron 1;90(5):1057-70.
- Zhong C, Talmage DA, Role LW (2015), Live Imaging of Nicotine Induced Calcium Signaling and Neurotransmitter Release Along Ventral Hippocampal Axons, J Vis Exp. 24;(100):e52730.
- Luchicchi A, Bloem B, Viaña JN, Mansvelder HD, Role LW (2014), Illuminating the role of cholinergic signaling in circuits of attention and emotionally salient behaviors, Front Synaptic Neurosci. 27;6:24.
- Jiang L, López-Hernández GY, Lederman J, Talmage DA, Role LW (2014), Optogenetic studies of nicotinic contributions to cholinergic signaling in the central nervous system, Rev Neurosci. 25(6):755-71,
- Zhong C, Talmage DA, Role LW (2013), Nicotine elicits prolonged calcium signaling along ventral hippocampal axons, PLoS One 5;8(12):e82719.
- Jiang L, Emmetsberger J, Talmage DA, Role LW (2013), Type III neuregulin 1 is required for multiple forms of excitatory synaptic plasticity of mouse cortico-amygdala circuits. J Neurosci. 5; 33(23):9655-66.
- Hancock ML, Nowakowski DW, Role LW, Talmage DA, Flanagan JG. (2011), Type III neuregulin 1 regulates pathfinding of sensory axons in the developing spinal cord and periphery. Development. 138(22):4887-98.
- Nason MW Jr, Adhikari A, Bozinoski M, Gordon JA, Role LW. (2011), Disrupted activity in the Hippocampal-accumbens circuit of type III neuregulin 1 mutant mice. Neuropsychopharmacology 36(2):488-96.Chen, Y., Hancock, M.L., Role, L.W. and Talmage, D.A. (2010), Intramembranous valine linked to schizophrenia is required for Type III neuregulin 1 signaling in the morphological development of cortical neurons. J. Neuroscience 30:9199-9208.
- 2016: Named SUNY Distinguished Professor
- 2014: Named a Reviewing Editor of eNEURO
- 2013: Invited to serve on the Steering Committee of the Simons Foundation Autism Emerging Concepts Lecture Series
- 2011: Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2010: Recipient of an NIH Director's Pioneer Award (more)
- 2009: Grass Lecturer for the Vermont Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
- 2009: Named a NARSAD Distinguished Investigator (2nd time)
- 2009: Received the Baer Prize for Innovative research related to Schizophrenia
- 2009: Named the Bauer Visiting Professor at Brandeis University in Spring
- 2009: Speaker at tje Signalling Symposium in Korea
- 2009: Promoted to Fellow status in the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
- 2009: Elected to serve on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Neuroscience
- 2009: Elected to serve on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Neuroscience (2009-2014)
- 2008: Plenary Speaker at the Cholinergic Circuits Symposium in Brazil
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- Mala Ananth - Graduate Student
- Elizabeth Ballinger, MSTP Student
- Yachi Chen, PhD - Research Assistant Professor
- Li Jiang, PhD - Research Scientist
- Alice Jones - Graduate Student
- Shannon Loncar - Graduate Student
- Ashleigh Lussenden - Graduate Student
- Prithviraj Rajebhosale (Raj) - Graduate Student
- Shaohua Wang - Graduate Student
- Chongbo Zhong, PhD - Research Scientist
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RECENT GRADUATES
- James Lederman(link sends e-mail) - Postdoctoral Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Ifeanyi Obiorah(link sends e-mail) - Postdoctoral Fellow, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Sarah Canetta - Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
- Jasmine Chen - Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF
- Melissa Hancock - Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School
- Madeline Johnson - NYU School of Journalism
- Dianne Lee - Senior Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health
- Michael Lieberman - Medical Director, AgencyRX (NY, NY)
- Gretchen Lopez - Assistant Professor
- Edlira Luca - Postdoctoral Fellow, University Hospital, Zurich