Biography
Shelby is a first year graduate student in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. She graduated with a B.S. from the University of Central Florida in 2015 with a double major in Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology. She then received her PhD in Medical Sciences with a concentration in Neuroscience in 2020 from the University of Florida under the mentorship of Barry Setlow and Jennifer Bizon. During her PhD in Medical Sciences she studied how modulating dopamine effects risky decision making and how drugs of abuse effect risky decision making. Shelby joined the Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health in 2020 under the mentorship of Jeff Boissoneault.
Publications
Blaes, S.L., Orsini C.A., Betzhold, S.M., Heshmati, S.C., Finner, A.M., Shimp, K. G., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. (In prep) Chronic cocaine causes age-dependent increases in risky choice.
Orsini, C.A., Blaes, S.L., Hernandez, C.M., Wheeler, A.R., Ten Eyck, T.W., Garman, T.S., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. (submitted). Regulation of risky decision making by gonadal hormones in male and female rats.
Orsini, C.A., Blaes, S.L., Finner, A., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. (2020). Distinct relationships between risk taking and cocaine self-administration in under short- and long-access conditions. Progress in Neuro-psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
Setlow, B., Blaes, S.L., Burns, M.R., Dragone, R.J., Orsini, C.A. (2020) Using rodent models to understand interactions between gambling and substance use. Current opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 31, 37-41.
Hernandez, C.M., Blaes, S.L., Wall, S.C., Heshmati, S., Jagnarine, D., Ravula, A., Simpson. K.L., Orsini, C.A., Febo, M., Bruijnzeel, A.W., Setlow, B. (submitted). Effects of chronic adolescent exposure to cannabis smoke on adult behavioral outcomes.
Orsini, C.A., Blaes, S.L, Setlow, B., Simon, N.W. (2019). Recent Updates in Modeling Risky Decision Making in Rodents. In: Psychiatric Disorders: second edition. Springer-Nature publishing Group.
Blaes, S.L., Orsini, C.A., Holik, H.M., Stubbs, T.D., Ferguson, S.N., Heshmati, S.C., Bruner, M.M., Wall, S.C., Febo, M., Bruijnzeel, A.W., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. (2019). Enhancing effects of acute exposure to cannabis smoke on working memory performance. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 157, 151-162
Blaes, S.L., Orsini, C.A., Mitchell, M.R., Spurrell, M.S., Betzhold, S.M, Vera, K., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. (2018). Monoaminergic modulation of decision making under risk of punishment in a rat model. Behavioural Pharmacology, 29(8), 745-761.
Kaliszewski, M., Kennedy, A. K., Blaes, S. L., Shaffer, R. S., Knott, A. B., Song, W., Hauser, H.A., Bossy, B., Huang, T., Bossy-Wetzel, E. (2016). SOD1 Lysine 123 Acetylation in the Adult Central Nervous System. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2016.
Presentations
Blaes, S.L., Orsini, C.A., Holik, H.M., Betzhold, S.M., Singhal, S.M., Frazier, C.J., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. (2019). Regulation of risky decision making via activity in dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago
Holik, H.M., Blaes, S.L., Orsini, C.A., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. (2019). Effects of inactivation of the lateral habenula on risky decision making. North Florida Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience conference, UF Center for Addiction Research and Education Conference
Blaes, S.L., Holik, H.M., Orsini, C.A., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. Effects of inactivation of the lateral habenula on risky decision making. UF COM Celebration of Research (2019), Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego (2018)
Orsini, C.A., Blaes, S.L., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. (2018). Sex differences in the relationship between risk-taking preference and cocaine self-administration in rats. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego
Wheeler, A.R., Hernandez, C.M., Orsini, C.A., Ten Eyck, T.W., Blaes, S.L., Labiste, C.C., Setlow, B., Bizon, J.L. (2018). Female rats show greater impulsive choice than males in an intertemporal choice task. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego
Blaes, S.L., Orsini, C.A., Garman, T., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. Regulation of risky decision making by gonadal hormones. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC (2017); UF COM Celebration of Research (2018); North Florida Chapter of the Society of Neuroscience conference (2018)
Holik, H.M., Blaes, S.L., Orsini, C.A., Ferguson, S., Heshmati, S., Wall, S., Febo, M., Bruijnzeel, A., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. Effects of acute exposure to cannabis smoke on working memory. North Florida Chapter of the Society of Neuroscience conference (2018)
Blaes, S.L., Orsini, C.A., Ferguson, S., Heshmati, S., Wall, S., Febo, M., Bruijnzeel, A., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. Effects of acute exposure to cannabis smoke on working memory. UF Center for Addiction Research and Education 5th Annual Symposium (2017)
Blaes, S.L., Orsini, C.A., Spurrell, M., Bizon, J.L., Setlow, B. Differential effects of D2 and D3 dopamine receptor ligands on risky decision-making. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego (2016); UF Center for Addiction Research and Education 4th Annual Symposium (2016); UF COM Celebration of Research (2016)
Bossy, K., Kennedy, A., Kincaid, B., Chen, J., Song, W., Blaes, S.L., Shaffer, R., Kaliszewski, M., Yin, H.Y., Bossy, B., Verdin, E., Bossy-Wetzel, E. Sirtuin3 regulates mitochondrial fusion by reversible optic atrophy deacetylation. ARVO Neurodegenerative and Neuroprotection Conference (2013)