Medical Scientist Training Program

Christopher Roberts

3rd Year Medical Student
7th Year MSTP

croberts@mcw.edu

Research Interests

• Investigating the role of endocannabinoid signaling on behavioral and endocrine stress responses. More recently we are studying the contribution of memory, recall and extinction on behavioral stress responses. These studies could be relevant to psychiatric disorders of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Education

• B.S. 2005, University of Iowa
  • Major: Biomedical Engineering

Research Experience

• Medical College of Wisconsin, 2003
  • Advisors: Richard Effros, MD and Earnestine Willis, MD, MPH
  • Project: Sampling tracheal surface fluid and plasma for the analysis & inhibition of ion and fluid transport
• Medical College of Wisconsin, 2002
  • Advisors: Andrey Sorokin, PhD, Vimal Patel, PhD and Earnestine Willis, MD, MPH
  • Project: Cyclooxeganse-2 regulates expression of P-Glycoprotein: product of the multidrug resistance (MDR1) gene.

Interests

• Assistant coach of the Wisconsin Lutheran High School wrestling team from October, 2005 to the present.