Suzanne C. Wood University of California, San Diego Department of Psychology scwood@ucsd.edu

Wood SC & Anagnostaras SG. Memory and psychostimulants: Modulation of Pavlovian fear conditioning by amphetamine in C57BL/6 mice.
   Psychopharmacology 2008 (in print).

Wood SC, Fay J, Sage JR, Anagnostaras SG. Cocaine and Pavlovian fear conditioning: a dose-effect analysis.
   Behavioural Brain Research 2007;176:244-250.

Wood SC, Sage JR, Anagnostaras SG. Enhanced learning and memory in mice.
   Poster presented at the Federation of European Neurosciences Societies and The Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2008.

Wood SC. Dose-Dependent Effects of Stimulants on Pavlovian Fear Conditioning.
   Datablitz presentation at the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Spring Meeting, Irvine, CA, April 2008.

Wood SC & Anagnostaras SG. Selective breeding for exceptional memory in mice.
   Poster presented at The Society for Neuroscience and The Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, San Diego, CA, November 2007.

Cai DJ, Wood SC, Wixted JT, Anagnostaras SG. Post-training alprazolam enhances Morris watermaze learning.
   Poster presented at The Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 2007.

Shuman T, Wood SC, Anagnostaras SG. The effects of modafinil on Morris watermaze learning and Pavlovian fear conditioning.
   Poster presented at The Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 2007.

Wood SC. Contextual Fear Conditioning May Be Heritable.
   Honorable Mention for datablitz presented at the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Spring Meeting, Irvine, CA, April 2007.

Wood SC, Apostolides P, Sage JR, Anagnostaras SG. Contextual conditioning in the absence of fear.
   Poster presented at The Society for Neuroscience and The Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, Atlanta, GA, October 2006.

Wood SC, Fay J, Sage JR, Anagnostaras SG. Cocaine disrupts Pavlovian fear conditioning.
   Poster presented at The Society for Neuroscience and The Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, Washington, D.C., November 2005.

Wood SC, Fay J, Sage JR, Anagnostaras SG. Cocaine disrupts freezing and learning during Pavlovian fear conditioning.
   Poster presented at The Association for Psychological Science, Los Angeles, CA, May 2005.

Hayden K, Wood SC, Mattson S. Standardized verbal fluency scoring criteria for COWA testing in children.
   Poster presented at The Western Psychological Association, Phoenix, AZ, April 2004.

Koleva S, Wood SC. The effects of text formatting on students' attitudes and retention.
   Poster presented at The Western Psychological Association, Vancouver, B.C., May 2003.

Instructor
University of California, San Diego

   Summer Session II 2008: Psychology 144, Memory and Amnesia

Teaching Assistant
University of California, San Diego

   Fall 2007: Psychology 106, Introduction to Physiological Psychology
      Guest Lecture: Learning and Memory (November 30, 2007)

   Winter 2007: Psychology 2, Biological Foundations

   Winter 2006: Psychology 181, Drugs and Behavior
      Guest Lecture: Marijuana (March 9, 2006)

   Spring 2005: Psychology 106, Introduction to Physiological Psychology
      Guest Lecture: Research Methods (April 12, 2005)

Teaching Assistant Mentor
University of California, San Diego
   Winter 2007: One-on-one training of a first year graduate student on the responsibilities of a teaching assistant

Graduate Student Mentor
Bridges to the Future
San Diego Mesa Community College
Bridges to the Future is an NIH-funded program, providing high-achieving, underrepresented community college students hands-on research experience to help prepare for a successful transfer to a four-year college or university
   December 2006 to August 2007: Mentor and train two local community college students in the Molecular Cognition Laboratory

Invited Lecturer
Psi Beta, National Honor Society in Psychology for Community & Junior Colleges
San Diego Mesa Community College
   March 21, 2007: From Humanities to Neuroscience: A Circuitous Route to Learning and Memory Research

Training Assistant
MED Associates, St. Albans, VT
   July 2006: Technical support for a hands-on fear conditioning tutorial attended by professionals in biological and pharmacological research

Lab Mentor
University of California, San Diego
Molecular Cognition Laboratory
   September 2004 to present: Provide training in lab techniques and general scholastic guidance to the following undergraduates (past and present)

      Melissa Guaderrama (visiting from San Marcos State University, funded by Research Summer Training Academy for Research in the Sciences - STARS)
      Lily Marouf
      Mitra Manuchehri
      Angela Smith
      Jason Yeatman

Instructor - Psychology and the Brain
GATEWAYS Summer School
GATEWAYS Summer School is a non-profit, community-based organization offering fast-paced, intense enriching experiences for identified gifted and high-achieving children who are entering grades 1 through 12 in the fall.
   Summer 2007, Session I

Graduate Student Representative
Psychology Department
University of California, San Diego
   Academic year, 2006-2007

Professional Affiliations
   Society for Neuroscience
   Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society
   Association for Psychological Science

Et Cetera
   I currently teach Latin once a week to a group of very inquisitive minds here.
   My favorite non-academic job, and where I established a second family, was at Rotten Tomatoes.
   After college, I spent one and a half years volunteering and working for The Storefront, a homeless shelter for teenagers, here in San Diego.