University of South Florida

Postdoctoral Fellow

My scientific interests include the development of a comprehensive understanding on the role of the extracellular protein Reelin in mammalian synaptic function and how specific human disease states can alter Reelin levels.My focus has been on understanding the role of Reelin and its signaling pathway on synaptic plasticity and behavior.

The University of British Columbia

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

April worked at The University of British Columbia as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Self-employed

Grants Consultant/Writer

April worked at Self-employed as a Grants Consultant/Writer

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

DnaJ/Hsc70 chaperone complexes control the extracellular release of neurodegenerative-associated proteins

EMBO Journal

DnaJ/Hsc70 chaperone complexes control the extracellular release of neurodegenerative-associated proteins

EMBO Journal

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

DnaJ/Hsc70 chaperone complexes control the extracellular release of neurodegenerative-associated proteins

EMBO Journal

DnaJ/Hsc70 chaperone complexes control the extracellular release of neurodegenerative-associated proteins

EMBO Journal

Reelin supplementation recovers synaptic plasticity and cognitive deficits in a mouse model for Angelman syndrome

European Journal of Neuroscience

Reelin supplementation recovers synaptic plasticity and cognitive deficits in a mouse model for Angelman syndrome

European Journal of Neuroscience

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

DnaJ/Hsc70 chaperone complexes control the extracellular release of neurodegenerative-associated proteins

EMBO Journal

DnaJ/Hsc70 chaperone complexes control the extracellular release of neurodegenerative-associated proteins

EMBO Journal

Reelin supplementation recovers synaptic plasticity and cognitive deficits in a mouse model for Angelman syndrome

European Journal of Neuroscience

Reelin supplementation recovers synaptic plasticity and cognitive deficits in a mouse model for Angelman syndrome

European Journal of Neuroscience

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

DnaJ/Hsc70 chaperone complexes control the extracellular release of neurodegenerative-associated proteins

EMBO Journal

DnaJ/Hsc70 chaperone complexes control the extracellular release of neurodegenerative-associated proteins

EMBO Journal

Reelin supplementation recovers synaptic plasticity and cognitive deficits in a mouse model for Angelman syndrome

European Journal of Neuroscience

Reelin supplementation recovers synaptic plasticity and cognitive deficits in a mouse model for Angelman syndrome

European Journal of Neuroscience

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Intertrial pellets influence the acquisition and expression of timed appetitive responding in rats

Learning and Motivation

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Amygdala kindling disrupts trace and delay fear conditioning with parallel changes in Fos protein expression throughout the limbic brain

Neuroscience

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Imipramine protects against the deleterious effects of chronic corticosterone on depression-like behavior, hippocampal reelin expression, and neuronal maturation

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Spermidine/spermine-N 1-acetyltransferase ablation impacts tauopathy-induced polyamine stress response

Alzheimer's research & therapy

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Reelin proteolysis affects signaling related to normal synapse function and neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Altered GABAergic and glutamatergic activity within the rat hippocampus and amygdala in rats subjected to repeated corticosterone administration but not restraint stress

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

Extracellular proteolysis of reelin by tissue plasminogen activator following synaptic potentiation

Neuroscience

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

The progressive development of depression-like behavior in corticosterone-treated rats is paralleled by slowed granule cell maturation and decreased reelin expression in the adult dentate gyrus

Neuropharmacology

DnaJ/Hsc70 chaperone complexes control the extracellular release of neurodegenerative-associated proteins

EMBO Journal

DnaJ/Hsc70 chaperone complexes control the extracellular release of neurodegenerative-associated proteins

EMBO Journal

Reelin supplementation recovers synaptic plasticity and cognitive deficits in a mouse model for Angelman syndrome

European Journal of Neuroscience

Reelin supplementation recovers synaptic plasticity and cognitive deficits in a mouse model for Angelman syndrome

European Journal of Neuroscience