Epernicus: Scott M Mackenzie, B.A., B.Sc.

Scott M Mackenzie, B.A., B.Sc.

Position:
Graduate Student - Ph.D.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Pharmacology

University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Advisor:
Daniel R Storm
Degrees:

B.Sc., Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)

B.A., Psychology, University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
Past Advisors:

James L McGaugh (as Undergraduate Student)

Leslie G Ungerleider (as Visiting Student)

Ji Y Sze (as Undergraduate Student)
Research:
Other Experience:
2006 Biology Tutor, UCI Learning & Academic Resource Center

2005 Course Reader, UCI School of Social Sciences
Honors:
2008 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention

2007 Phi Beta Kappa Society

2007 William F. Holcomb Scholarship

2006 Carol Becker McGaugh Award

2006-2007 UC Irvine Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Fellowship

2003-2007 UC Irvine Regents' Scholarship

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Scott Mackenzie's Publications (2)

The role of the cAMP/PKA second-messenger pathway in the prefrontal cortex in mediating glucocorticoid effects on working memory and memory consolidation
Scott M Mackenzie

University of California, Irvine, Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Biological Sciences. 2007;37:1233-44
Serotonin (5HT), fluoxetine, imipramine and dopamine target distinct 5HT receptor signaling to modulate Caenorhabditis elegans egg-laying behavior.
Dempsey CM, Mackenzie SM, Gargus A, Blanco G, Sze JY

Genetics. 2005 Mar;169(3):1425-36

Scott Mackenzie's Posters and Presentations (8)

Glucocorticoid-noradrenergic interactions in prefrontal cortex dependent working memory function (poster)
A. Barsegyan, Scott M. Mackenzie, B. Roozendaal

Society for Neuroscience, National Conference; 11/2007
The role of the cAMP/PKA second-messenger pathway in the prefrontal cortex in mediating glucocorticoid effects on working memory and memory consolidation (poster)
Scott M. Mackenzie, B. Roozendaal, J.L. McGaugh

UC Irvine Undergraduate Research Symposium; 05/2007
Discrimination of morphed identities in a face/object recognition task in macaque monkeys (poster)
Scott M. Mackenzie, L.C. Guillory, A.H. Bell, F. Hadj-Bouziane, J.E. Becker, L.G. Ungerleider

NIH Summer Poster Day; 08/2006
A genetic screen for resistance to dopamine-inhibition of egg-laying behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans (presentation)
Scott M. Mackenzie, C.M. Dempsey, J. Sze

UC Irvine Undergraduate Research Symposium; 05/2006
Dopamine inhibition of egg-laying in Caenorhabditis elegans relies on the MOD-1 receptor (presentation)
Scott M. Mackenzie, C.M. Dempsey, J. Sze

Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research; 11/2005
A genetic screen for the targets of dopamine in the egg-laying paradigm (poster)
C.M. Dempsey, Scott M Mackenzie, J. Sze

International C. elegans Conference; 06/2005
The antidepressants imipramine and fluoxetine affect behavior through different signaling pathways in Caenorhabditis elegans (presentation)
Scott M. Mackenzie, A. Gargus, G. Blanco, C.M. Dempsey, J. Sze

UC Irvine Undergraduate Research Symposium; 05/2005
Receptor specificity to the antidepressants fluoxetine and imipramine in Caenorhabditis elegans (presentation)
Scott M. Mackenzie, A. Gargus, G. Blanco, C.M. Dempsey, J. Sze

Southern California Undergraduate Research Symposium; 11/2004

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