MSTP students in the Sahoo lab
Medical Scientist Training Program
Todd Stollenwerk

Todd Stollenwerk, PhD

M4 Student

Faculty Advisor

  • Cecilia Hillard, PhD, Pharmacology and Toxicology

Locations

  • Medical Scientist Training Program

Contact Information

Education

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

Research Interests

Psychosis, endocannabinoid system, intersection between psychiatry and medicine

Research Experience

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2018-2022
Advisor: Cecilia Hillard, PhD
Project: Contribution of adolescent risk states to behavioral changes in a maternal immune activation model of 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

Martinez Ramirez CE, Ruiz-Pérez G, Stollenwerk TM, Behlke C, Doherty A, Hillard CJ. Endocannabinoid signaling in the central nervous system. Glia. 2023;71(1):5-35. doi:10.1002/glia.24280. PMID: 36308424.

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. Adolescent THC Treatment Does Not Potentiate the Behavioral Effects in Adulthood of Maternal Immune Activation. Cells. 2021 Dec 11;10(12):3503. doi: 10.3390/cells10123503. PMID: 34944011; PMCID: PMC8700174.

Stollenwerk TM, Pollock S, Hillard CJ. Contribution of the Adenosine 2A Receptor to Behavioral Effects of Tetrahydrocannabinol, Cannabidiol and PECS-101. Molecules. 2021 Sep 2;26(17):5354. doi: 10.3390/molecules26175354. PMID: 34500787; PMCID: PMC8434367.

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, Navarro-Montoya AM. ""She Needs to Die"": Seronegative Autoimmune Encephalitis after COVID-19 Infection Presenting as Homicidal Ideation [Poster presentation]. Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry annual meeting, Austin, TX, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Falk-Steinmetz M, Crawford C. (2022, September 21-23). Creating a workshop series to train medial and pharmacy student tutors [Oral presentation]. Innovations in Healthcare Education Research Symposium, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Hillard CJ. (2021, November 7-12). Adolescent THC exposure does not worsen behaviors associated with hyperdopaminergic states in a mouse maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia [Poster presentation]. Gordon Research Conference: Cannabinoid Function in the CNS, Ventura, CA, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Castellanos MJ. (2021, September 22-24). Using pre-class review sessions to enhance learning in the Medical Physiology course [Oral presentation]. Innovations in Healthcare Education Research Symposium, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Stollenwerk TM, Castellanos MJ. (2021, September 22-24). Implementing interactive extracurricular case-based learning sessions to help M1 students review, integrate, and apply physiology principles [Poster presentation]. Innovations in Healthcare Education Research Symposium, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

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