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Todd Stollenwerk

Todd Stollenwerk

Todd Stollenwerk

G4 Student

Faculty Advisor

  • Cecilia Hillard, PhD, Pharmacology & Toxicology

Locations

  • Medical Scientist Training Program

Contact Information

Education

BS, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Brigham Young University, 2015

Research Interests

Neuropsychiatry

Research Experience

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2018-present
Advisor: Cecilia Hillard, PhD
Project: The role of endocannabinoid signaling in schizophrenia

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2015-2016
Advisor: Cecilia Hillard, PhD
Project: Role of endocannabinoids in stress-potentiated reinstatement of addictive behavior in a model of rat cocaine self-administration.

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2015-2016
Advisor: Nashaat Gerges, PhD
Project: Regulation of neurogranin, a synaptic regulator of CaM, through microRNAs and post-translational modifications.

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2007-2008, 2011
Advisors: Phillip Pratt, PhD, and David Warltier, MD PhD
Project: Role of near infrared light in nitric oxide production and cardioprotection against ischemia/reperfusion injury.

Publications

Yuan CY, Zhou V, Sauber G, Stollenwerk T, et al. Signaling through the type 2 cannabinoid receptor regulates the severity of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease. Blood. 2021 Mar 4;137(9):1241-1255. doi: 10.1182/blood.2020004871. PMID: 33027805; PMCID: PMC7933769.

deRoon-Cassini TA, Stollenwerk TM, Beatka M, Hillard CJ. Meet Your Stress Management Professionals: The Endocannabinoids. Trends Mol Med. 2020 Oct;26(10):953-968. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2020.07.002. Epub 2020 Aug 28. Review. PubMed PMID: 32868170; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7530069.

Meeting Abstracts

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. (2021, June 20-25). Sex-dependent effects of adolescent THC exposure on cognitive performance in a mouse maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia [Poster presentation]. International Cannabinoid Research Society Symposium, Jerusalem, Israel.

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. (2021, June 3-4). Sex-dependent effects of adolescent THC exposure on cognitive performance in a mouse maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia [Poster presentation]. European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine 2021 Virtual Conference.

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. (2021, March 18). Role of endocannabinoid signaling in the effects of stress and corticosterone on prepulse inhibition [Oral presentation]. Graduate Student Association Symposium, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. (2021, February 5). Corticosterone induces an endocannabinoid-mediated enhancement of prepulse inhibition resembling the effect of acute stress in male but not female mice [Poster presentation]. Graduate School Research Poster Session, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Falk-Steinmetz M, Dwinell M. (2020, April 25-26). The role of near-peer teaching in medical education: perspectives gained through the Medical Physiology course and student tutoring in general at MCW [Panel discussion]. Innovations in Healthcare Education Research Symposium, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Saldaña SL, Hillard CJ, Cunningham CW. (2019, June 30-July 3). CWC-1-001 Exhibits CB1 Receptor Allosteric Modulatory Effects [Poster presentation]. International Cannabinoid Research Society Symposium, Bethesda, MD, USA.

General Interests

Water skiing, piano, ballroom dance