Maribel Hernández, PhD

ASERT/IRACDA Fellow

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

maribhernandez@salud.unm.edu

Education

Indiana University Indianapolis • Indianapolis, IN  2020 – 2024

Ph.D. in Psychology (Addiction Neuroscience)

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis • Indianapolis, IN  2020
M.S. in Psychology (Addiction Neuroscience) 

St. Edwards University • Austin, TX 2015
B.S. in Psychology; Behavioral Neuroscience concentration

Teaching

Teaching Mentor: To be assigned 

Publications

Phillip Starski, Addyson Siegle, Danielle White, Bea Paras, Christy Tham, Maribel Hernández, Nicholas   Grahame, Stephen L Boehm 2nd, & Frederic Hopf (2024). Sex and Genetic Behavioral Engagement    Differences in Crossed High Alcohol-Preferring and Low Alcohol Preferring Mice. Genes, Brain and Behavior. (submitted)

Hernández, M., Zhang, Y., Filippelli, G. M., & Boehm, S. L. (2023). Early-life low-level lead exposure alters anxiety-like behavior, voluntary alcohol consumption and AC5 protein content in adult male and female C57BL/6 J mice. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 95, 107149. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NTT.2022.107149

*Bauer, M. R., *Hernández, M., Kasten, C. R., & Boehm, S. L., 2nd (2022). Systemic administration of racemic baclofen reduces both acquisition and maintenance of alcohol consumption in male and female mice. Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), 103, 25–35.
Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcohol.2022.06.003 *denotes co-authorship

Rangel-Barajas, C., Coronel, I., Zhang, Y., Hernández, M., & Boehm, S. L. (2020). Low-level developmental lead exposure does not predispose to adult alcohol self-administration, but does increase the risk of  relapsing to alcohol seeking in mice: Contrasting role of GLT1 and xCT brain expression. Neuropharmacology, Vol. 181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2020.108339

Smoker, M. P., Hernández, M., Zhang, Y., & Boehm, S. L. (2019). Assessment of Acute Motor Effects and Tolerance Following Self-Administration of Alcohol and Edible ∆9-Tetrahydrocannabinol in Adolescent Male Mice. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 43(11), 2446–2457.  https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14197 

Research

Current Research

• Investigating the behavioral genetics of alcohol use disorder using transgenic mouse models and neuroscience techniques

Research mentors:

• Amanda Barkley-Levenson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Benjamin Clark, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology