Jordyn Wilcox
Assistant Teaching Professor
- Office
- E458 Corbett Family Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- +1 574-631-0383
- jwilcox5@nd.edu
Research and teaching interests
Behavioral neuroscience, neurotoxicology, nutritional neuroscience, rodent models, experimental design.
Biography
Dr. Wilcox is an assistant teaching professor contributing to the neuroscience and behavior undergraduate major. Her graduate and postdoctoral training is in using rodent models of neurodegenerative disease (Huntington disease and Alzheimer’s disease) to understand gene-environment interactions and underlying mechanisms of disease. She loves to design experiments and primarily uses rodent behavioral and molecular biology techniques to investigate hypotheses of interest. The critical thinking and creative problem solving that is required of a researcher are highly valued by Dr. Wilcox, and these are skills that she hopes to foster in students she mentors both in the classroom and a lab setting.
Education
B.A., Colorado College, 2015.
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2021.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2021-2022.
Representative Publications
Wilcox, J.M., Consoli, D.C., Paffenroth, K.C., Spitznagel, B.D., Calipari, E.S.,
Bowman, A.B., and Harrison, F.E. (2022). Manganese-induced hyperactivity and
dopaminergic dysfunction depend on age, sex and YAC128 genotype.
Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 213, 173337.
Wilcox, J.M., Pfalzer, A.C., Tienda, A.T., Debbiche, I.F., Cox, E.C., Totten, M.S.,
Erikson, K.M., Harrison, F.E., and Bowman, A.B. YAC128 mouse model of
Huntington disease is protected against subtle chronic manganese (Mn)-induced
behavioral and neuropathological changes (2021). Neurotoxicology, 87, 94-105.
Wilcox, J.M., Consoli, D.C., Dixit, S., Buchanan, R.A., May, J.M., Nobis, W.P., &
Harrison, F.E. (2021). Altered synaptic glutamate homeostasis contributes to cognitive
decline in young APP/PSEN1 mice. Neurobiology of Disease, 158, 105486.
Pfalzer, A.C., Wilcox, J.M., Codreanu, S.G., Totten, M., Bichell, T.J.V., Halbesma, T.,
Umashanker, P.,Yang, K.L., Parmalee, N.L., Sherrod, S.D., Erikson, K.M.,
Harrison, F.E., McLean, J.A., Aschner, M., and Bowman, A.B. (2020). Huntington’s
Disease genotype suppresses global manganese responsive processes in pre-
manifest and manifest YAC128 mice. Metallomics, 12, 11181130.