{"id":9249,"date":"2024-04-03T13:15:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=9249"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:19:41","slug":"lisa-m-tarantino-phd","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/people\/lisa-m-tarantino-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa M. Tarantino, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --><\/p>\n<h2>Research Interests<\/h2>\n<p><strong class=\"keywords\">Keywords: Identification and characterization of genes that influence behavior; mouse models of addiction, anxiety, stress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The research in Dr. Tarantino\u2019s laboratory is focused on identification and characterization of genes that influence behavior. In particular, they study mouse models of addiction, anxiety, stress and depression-like behaviors. The laboratory uses a number of forward genetic approaches, including the measurement of behavior in existing mouse populations, such as inbred mouse strains, newer mouse resources like the Collaborative Cross and spontaneous and ENU-induced mutants. Behavior is also largely influenced by the environment and the laboratory is investigating environmental manipulations that act independently or in concert with genetic background to alter behavioral phenotypes.<\/p>\n<h2>Mentor Training:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bias 101<\/li>\n<li>Culturally Aware Mentoring<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Mentoring Workshop for Biomedical Researchers<\/li>\n<li>Safe Zone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Training Program Affiliations:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Genetics and Molecular Biology<\/li>\n<li>Neuroscience<\/li>\n<li>Pharmaceutical Sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=Tarantino%20LM%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=32313261&amp;page=3\">PubMed<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Lisa Tarantino in UNC Genetics News<\/h2>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4208,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[37],"faculty-mentorship-training":[39,43,44],"class_list":["post-9249","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-faculty","faculty-mentorship-training-culturally-aware-mentoring","faculty-mentorship-training-oge-mentoring-workshop","faculty-mentorship-training-safe-zone-training","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Tarantino","ud_first_name":"Lisa M. ","ud_gallery_summary":"","ud_telephone":[{"ud_location":"Office","ud_number":"8584140028"}],"ud_email":"lisat@med.unc.edu","ud_positions":[{"ud_title":"Professor; Faculty Director of BBSP"}],"ud_options":[],"ud_sort_order":""},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2013\/06\/tarantino_lisa-wpcf_133x200.jpeg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2013\/06\/tarantino_lisa-wpcf_133x200.jpeg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2013\/06\/tarantino_lisa-wpcf_133x200.jpeg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2013\/06\/tarantino_lisa-wpcf_133x200.jpeg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2013\/06\/tarantino_lisa-wpcf_133x200-133x150.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_entry\/9249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_entry"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ud_entry"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ud_division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ud_division?post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-mentorship-training","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-mentorship-training?post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}