Perceptions about e-cigarette safety may lead to e-smoking during pregnancy
Baeza-Loya, S. et al (2014). "Perceptions about e-cigarette safety may lead to e-smoking during pregnancy." Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 1. 78.3 (2014): 243-252.
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Education
- Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago, Neurobiology, 2022 (expected)
Advisor: Dr. Ruth Anne Eatock - B.A., Rice University, Cognitive Sciences (Honors) and Spanish and Portuguese, 2016
Academic Research
University of Chicago, Advisor: Dr. Ruth Anne Eatock, present
Department of Neurobiology, Biological Sciences Division
- Investigating the contributions of sodium current diversity to action potential waveforms and firing patterns of vestibular afferent neurons
- Modeling impact of different ionic currents on spike timing regularity using single compartment HH based formulations
Baylor College of Medicine, Advisor: Dr. Ramiro Salas, 2013-2016
Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Developed relational analysis using PGMRA web server for psychiatric data and neuroimaging data in patients with major depressive disorder
- Determined relationship of altered cingulate cortex anatomical connectivity with comorbid major depressive disorder and substance abuse disorder in clinical patients
- Analyzed anterior cingulate cortex diffusion tensor imaging connectivity in patients with nicotine, cocaine, and alcohol addiction
- Investigated perceptions regarding e-cigarettes and e-cigarette smoking during pregnancy
Duke University, Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Kuhn, Dr. David Walker, 2015
Duke Institute for Brain Science, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
- Chronic ethanol administration desensitizes of adenosine A1 receptors as shown through an altered response to adenosine agonists in sudden darkness locomotor activity in adult rats
Skills
- Dissection: mouse inner ear
- Tissue dissociation and cell culture
- Patch clamp electrophysiology and signal analysis
- Voltage clamp
- Current clamp
- Action potential clamp
- Conductance-based modeling (MATLAB)
Publications
Anterior cingulum white matter is altered in tobacco smokers
Baeza-Loya, S. et al (2016). "Anterior cingulum white matter is altered in tobacco smokers." The American Journal of Addictions.25(3), 210-214.
Spike timing regularity in vestibular afferent neurons: How ionic currents influence sensory encoding mechanisms
Baeza Loya S. (2021) Spike timing regularity in vestibular afferent neurons: How ionic currents influence sensory encoding mechanisms [Online]. arXiv:210800905 [q-bio] , 2021 http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00905.
Talks
Persistent and Resurgent Voltage-gated Sodium Currents in Mouse Vestibular Ganglion Neurons
Poster at Association for Research and Otolaryngology, San Jose, CA
Sodium current diversity and sensory encoding in the vestibular afferent neurons
Talk at Neuroscience Graduate Program Admissions Weekend, Department of Neurobiology, Chicago, IL
Sodium current diversity and spike timing in vestibular ganglion neurons
Seminar at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
How does sodium current diversity influence vestibular afferent firing?
Talk at Senior Student Talk, Department of Neurobiology, Chicago, IL
Impact of Persistent and Resurgent Currents on Excitability in Mouse Vestibular Ganglion Neurons
Poster at Society for Neuroscience, Association for Research and Otolaryngology, Vestibular Oriented Research Meeting, Virtual
Teaching
Outreach and Activities
- Student Representative, Biological Sciences Division Committee on Equitable Admissions, University of Chicago, 2020
- Steering Committee Member, Neuroscience Early Stage Scientists Training Program, University of Chicago, 2020 - present
- Board Member, UChicagoGRAD Diversity Advisory Board (DAB), University of Chicago, 2017- 2020
- Admissions Committee, UChicago Committee in Neurobiology and Computational Neuroscience, 2017-2018
- Director of Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment Initiative Team (GRIT), University of Chicago, 2017 – 2018
- Executive Team Member, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos