{"id":4677,"date":"2016-04-28T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/directory\/maria-suarez\/"},"modified":"2018-07-09T15:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T19:18:58","slug":"maria-suarez","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/directory\/maria-suarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Luisa Torruella Suarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"person-bio\">\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Biography<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I graduated from Yale University in 2015 with a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. As an undergraduate I worked in the lab of Dr. Col\u00f3n-Ramos. There I was part of a project that sought to elucidate the neural mechanisms of thermotaxis behavior in <i>C. elegans<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. I started BBSP in the fall of 2015 and joined the lab of Dr. Zoe McElligott in 2016.<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Research<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a graduate student in the McElligott lab I am interested in the neural circuits that underlie alcohol use and abuse. I am currently working on a project to elucidate the role of neurotensin neurons in the central amygdala in alcohol consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Publications<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"external-link\" style=\"border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-width: medium; border-bottom-style: none;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-inline\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2018\/07\/pubmed.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Activities\/Awards<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UNC Neuroscience Training Grant recipient, 2015-2017<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Pierre Morell Neuroscience Retreat Committee, 2016-2017<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Neuroscience Invited Speakers Committee, 2016-2017<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> EXROP scholar, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Biography I graduated from Yale University in 2015 with a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. 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