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• Distinguished Graduate Student Award 2022-2023 - Program in Neuroscience / Florida State University (01/01/2023-01/31/2023)
• National Award of Excellence in Innovative Advances in Health Research - National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse (01/01/2021-12/31/2021)
• ACNP Elected Full Member - American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (01/01/2021)
• Clever Systems Early Investigator Award - American Psychological Association (01/01/2018-12/31/2018)
• National Award on Excellence in Mentorship - National Hispanic Science Network (01/01/2018-12/31/2018)
• Mentoring Award - NIH-BUILDing Scholars Program (01/01/2017-12/31/2017)
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stoke (NINDS) - Early Career Institute (ECI) in Neuroscience Fellow (01/01/2015-12/31/2015)
• Outstanding Faculty in Research, Scholarly, or Creative Contribution Award - College of Social & Behavioral Sciences (CSUSB) (01/01/2015-12/31/2015)
• Travel Award - California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB) annual research conference. (01/01/2015-12/31/2015)
• Outstanding Teaching Award - Department of Psychology, CSUSB, San Bernardino (01/01/2014-12/31/2014)
• Travel Award - California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB) annual research conference (01/01/2014-12/31/2014)
• Travel Award - College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) (01/01/2014-12/31/2014)
• Outstanding Faculty Professional Development Award - Department of Psychology, CSUSB, San Bernardino, CA. (01/01/2013-12/31/2013)
• Travel Award - California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB) annual research conference (01/01/2013-12/31/2013)
• Travel Award - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Special Populations Research Development Seminar Series Workshop (01/01/2013-12/31/2013)
• Early Career Leadership Committee (ECLC) Pilot Funding Program Award - National Hispanic Science Network (NHSN/NIDA) (01/01/2012-12/31/2012)
• ACNP Travel Fellow - American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (01/01/2011-12/31/2011)
• Dissertation Grant - The Graduate School, Florida State University (01/01/2011-12/31/2011)
• Dissertation Research Award - American Psychological Association (APA) (01/01/2011-12/31/2011)
• Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellowship (NSP) - Society for Neuroscience (NINDS) (01/01/2011-12/31/2011)
• Research & Creativity Award - The Graduate School, Florida State University (01/01/2011-12/31/2011)
• Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award (F31DA027300) - NIDA (01/01/2011-12/31/2011)
• Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellowship (NSP) - Society for Neuroscience (NINDS) (01/01/2010-12/31/2010)
• NHSN/NIDA Travel Award - National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse (01/01/2010-12/31/2010)
• Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award (F31DA027300) - NIDA (01/01/2010-12/31/2010)
• Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellowship (NSP) - Society for Neuroscience (NINDS) (01/01/2009-12/31/2009)
• Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award (F31DA027300) - NIDA (01/01/2009-12/31/2009)
• Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Survival (SPINES) - Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. (01/01/2009-12/31/2009)
• McKnight Predoctoral Fellowship - The Florida Education Fund (01/01/2007-12/31/2007)
• Neuroscience Predoctoral Fellowship - Florida State University (01/01/2007-12/31/2007)

• Ph D in Neuroscience, Florida State University (2011)

• Sex-specific alterations in spatial memory and hippocampal AKT-mTOR signaling in adult mice pre-exposed to ketamine and/or psychological stress during adolescence Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science 4 240-251 (2024), Israel Garcia-Carachure, Omar Lira, Anapaula Themann, Minerva Rodriguez, Flores-Ramirez, Mary Kay Lobo, Sergio Iniguez.
• Molecular, circuit, and stress response characterization of Ventral Pallidum Npas1-neurons. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 43 3 (2023), G Morais-Silva, R R. Campbell, H Nam, M Basu, M Pagliusi, M E. Fox, S Chan, Sergio Iniguez, S Ament, N Cramer, Merranda Marin, M K. Lobo.
• Sex and diet-dependent gene alterations in human and rat brains with a history of nicotine exposure. (in press), Luis Carcoba, Sergio Iniguez, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Acute and long-lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague-Dawley rats. Developmental psychobiology 64 8 (2022), Antonio Castro, M Frankot, T H. Moran, Sergio Iniguez, Y Treesukosol.
• Adolescent fluoxetine exposure increases ERK-related signaling within the prefrontal cortex of adult male Sprague-Dawley rats Oxford Open Neuroscience 1 kvac015 (2022), Ana Iniguez, Miner , Israel Garcia-Carachure, Omar Lira, Sergio D. Iniguez.
• Effect of early-life stress or fluoxetine exposure on later-life conditioned taste aversion learning in Sprague-Dawley rats. Neuroscience letters 787 (2022), V Ascencio Gutierrez, A A. Carrillo, G J. Boersma, Tamashiro KLK, T H. Moran, Sergio Iniguez, Y Treesukosol.
• The BDNF-TrkB Pathway Acts Through Nucleus Accumbens D2 Expressing Neurons to Mediate Stress Susceptible Outcomes. Frontiers in psychiatry 13 (2022), M Pagliusi, D Franco, S Cole, G Morais-Silva, R Chandra, M E. Fox, Sergio Iniguez, C R. Sartori, M K. Lobo.
• Association of ADHD and obesity in Hispanic children on the US-Mexico border: A retrospective analysis. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience (2022), Alyssa Salcido, Eden Hernandez Robles, Kiran Chaudhary, Luis Alvarado, Sergio Iniguez, Javier Vargas-Medrano, Valeria Diaz-Pacheco, Maria Theresa Villanos, Bharathi S. Gadad, Sarah L. Martin.
• Adolescent Fluoxetine Exposure Induces Persistent Gene Expression Changes in the Hippocampus of Adult Male C57BL/6 Mice. Molecular Neurobiology (2021), Sergio Iniguez, Francisco J. Flores Ramirez, Anapaula Themann, Omar Lira.
• Autophagy induction and accumulation of phosphorylated tau in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of adult C57BL/6 mice subjected to adolescent fluoxetine treatment Journal of Alzheimers Disease (2021), Jorge Sierra-Fonseca, Rodriguez, Anapaula Themann, Omar Lira, Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez, Vargas-Medrano Javier, Bharathi S. Gadad, Sergio Iniguez.
• Food-seeking behavior is mediated by Fos-expressing neuronal ensembles formed at first learning in rats. eNeuro (2021), Sergio D. Iniguez, R Quintana-Feliciano, C Gobin, L Kane, B Sortman, S Rakela, A Genovese, BJ Tunstall, D Caprioli, Brandon L. Warren.
• Adolescent fluoxetine treatment mediates a persistent anxiety-like outcome in female C57BL/6 mice that is ameliorated by fluoxetine re-exposure in adulthood Scientific Reports/Nature Publishing Group 11 11 (2021), Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez, Anapaula Themann, Jorge Sierra-Fonseca, Israel Garcia-Carachure, Samu A. Castillo, Minerva Rodriguez, Omar Lira, Joshua Preciado-Pina, Brandon L. Warren, Alfred J. Robison, Sergio Iniguez.
• Extrahypothalamic oxytocin neurons drive stress-induced social vigilance and avoidance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 42 (2020), Sergio Iniguez, L Y. Torres, S Yokoyama, V A. Minie, A M. Tran, S P. Petkova, R Hao, S Ramos-Maciel, R A. Rios, K Jackson, F J. Flores-Ramirez, I Garcia-Carachure, P A. Pesavento, S D. Iñiguez, V Grinevich, B C. Trainor.
• Ketamine beyond anesthesia: Antidepressant effects and abuse potential. Behavioural Brain Research 394 (2020), Keith A. Trujillo, Sergio D. Iñiguez.
• Can I Get a Witness? Using Vicarious Defeat Stress to Study Mood-Related Illnesses in Traditionally Understudied Populations. Biological Psychiatry 88 5 (2020), B L. Warren, M S. Mazei-Robison, A J. Robison, Sergio Iniguez.
• Enduring effects of adolescent ketamine exposure on cocaine- and sucrose-induced reward in male and female C57BL/6 mice. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 45 9 (2020), Sergio Iniguez, F J. Flores-Ramirez, S A. Castillo, A Themann, M A. Arenivar, J Preciado-Piña, A R. Zavala, M K. Lobo, S D. Iñiguez.
• Early-life ketamine exposure attenuates the preference for ethanol in adolescent Sprague-Dawley rats. Behavioural Brain Research 389 (2020), D Franco, J Zamudio, K M. Blevins, E A. Núñez-Larios, U M. Ricoy, S D. Iñiguez, A R. Zavala.
• Adolescent fluoxetine history impairs spatial memory in adult male, but not female, C57BL/6 mice. Journal of Affective Disorders 249 (2019), F J. Flores-Ramirez, L F. Parise, J B. Alipio, I Garcia-Carachure, S A. Castillo, M Rodriguez, A Themman, O Lira, J Preciado-Piña, Sergio Iniguez.
• Upregulation of hippocampal extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)-2 induces antidepressant-like behavior in the rat forced swim test. Behavioral Neuroscience 133 2 (2019), Sergio Iniguez, L F. Parise, M K. Lobo, F J. Flores-Ramirez, I Garcia-Carachure, B L. Warren, A J. Robison.
• Dorsal Hippocampus ERK2 Signaling Mediates Anxiolytic-Related Behavior in Male Rats. Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) 3 (2019), J A. Sierra-Fonseca, L F. Parise, F J. Flores-Ramirez, E H. Robles, I Garcia-Carachure, Sergio Iniguez.

• Behavioral and pharmacological preclinical approaches to study mood-related disorders. (2021), Volume Albuquerque, NM, Sergio Iniguez.
• Adolescent fluoxetine exposure induces persistent gene expression changes in the hippocampus of adult male C57BL/6 mice. (2021), Volume Virtual Conference, Sergio Iniguez, Anapaula Themann, Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez, Omar Lira.
• Adolescent fluoxetine exposure mediates a long-term anxiogenic phenotype and decreases ERK signaling in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of female C57BL/6 mice. (2021), Volume Virtual Conference, Sergio Iniguez, Minerva Rodriguez, Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez.
• Dose-Dependent differences of ethanol-induced conditioned place preference in juvenile and adolescent male and female Sprague-Dawley rats. (2021), Volume Virtual Conference, Sergio Iniguez, T M. Nelson, D Q. Pham, Daniela Franco, E A. Bates, T A. Gonzalez, Arturo Zavala.
• Exposure too concomitant fluoxetine and aripiprazole leads to a depressive-like outcome in adult female C57BL/6 mice. (2021), Volume Virtual Conference, Sergio Iniguez, Samuel Castillo, Diamond Pardo, Carolina Amaya.
• Lasting effects of juvenile ketamine exposure for reward-related stimuli in C57BL/6 mice. (2021), Volume Virtual Conference, Sergio Iniguez, Israel Garcia-Carachure, Arturo Zavala, Joshua Preciado-Piña.
• Behavioral and pharmacological preclinical approaches to study mood-related disorders. (2020), Volume Long Beach, CA., Sergio Iniguez.
• Preclinical models for the study of depression-related phenotypes: Behavioral and pharmacological approaches. (2020), Volume El Paso, TX., Sergio Iniguez.
• Lasting effects of concomitant exposure to ketamine and social stress on spatial memory performance in male C57Bl/6 mice. (2020), Volume Virtual conference, Sergio Iniguez, Israel Garcia-Carachure.
• The (a)Typical path of a neuroscientist. (2020), Volume Long Beach, CA., Sergio Iniguez.
• The (a)Typical path of a neuroscientist. (2020), Volume El Paso, TX., Sergio Iniguez.
• Aggression modulates responses to mood-related stimuli in male CD-1 mice. (2020), Volume San Antonio, Texas, Sergio Iniguez, Anapaula Themann, Alejandra Gonzalez.
• Combination treatment with fluoxetine and aripiprazole leads to decreases in cocaine-seeking behavior in adult female C57BL6 mice. (2020), Volume San Antonio, Texas., Sergio Iniguez, Samuel Castillo, Diamond Pardo.
• Enduring effects of juvenile ketamine exposure for the rewarding properties of cocaine and sucrose in mice. (2020), Volume San Antonio, Texas., Sergio Iniguez, Israel Garcia-Carachure, Joshua Preciado-Piña.
• Neonatal caffeine administration on the behavioral sensitization to methylphenidate (Ritalin): Implications for ADHD. (2020), Volume Santa Clara, CA., Sergio Iniguez, T Gonzalez, N Tyler, E Nunez, B Coyne, R Mehta, Arturo Zavala.
• Ontogeny of contextdependent methamphetamine sensitization using a one-trial behavioral sensitization paradigm. (2020), Volume Santa Clara, CA., Sergio Iniguez, O Faiyaz, B Coyne, B Sortman, E Nunez, Arturo Zavala.
• Antidepressant exposure during adolescence alters preference for cocaine in adulthood. (2019), Volume Minneapolis, MN., Sergio Iniguez.
• Rodent models of depression: Behavioral and pharmacological approaches. (2019), Volume El Paso, TX, Sergio Iniguez.
• Behavioral and pharmacological studies to examine major depressive disorder. (2019), Volume El Paso, TX., Sergio Iniguez.
• Rodent models of depression: Behavioral and pharmacological perspectives. (2019), Volume University Park, PA, Sergio Iniguez.
• Fluoxetine history impairs spatial memory in male, but not female, C57BL/6 mice. (2019), Volume Española, NM., Sergio Iniguez.
• The enduring anxiogenic phenotype induced by juvenile antidepressant exposure is ameliorated by fluoxetine re-exposure in adult female C57BL/6 mice. (2019), Volume Orlando, FL., Sergio Iniguez, Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez.
• Adolescent ketamine pre-exposure does not alter cocaine preference in adult female C57BL/6 mice. (2019), Volume San Antonio, Texas., Sergio Iniguez, Israel Garcia-Carachure, Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez, Samuel Castillo, Minerva Rodriguez, Joshua Preciado-Piña, Omar Lira, Anapaula Themann.
• Fluoxetine exposure in adolescent and adult female mice decreases cocaine and sucrose preference later in life. (2019), Volume San Antonio, Texas., Sergio Iniguez, Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez, Anapaula Themann, Minerva Rodriguez, Omar Lira, Joshua Preciado-Piña.
• Juvenile combination treatment with fluoxetine and aripiprazole does not alter cocaine-seeking behavior in adulthood. (2019), Volume San Antonio, Texas., Sergio Iniguez, Samuel Castillo, Minerva Rodriguez, Anapaula Themann, Omar Lira, Joshua Preciado-Piña.
• Adolescent male rats exhibit adult-like methamphetamine sensitization in one trial paradigm, while female rats do not. (2019), Volume Garden Grove, CA., Sergio Iniguez, B Sortman, Daniela Franco, E Nunez, C Moreno-Barriga, Arturo Zavala.
• Functional consequences of juvenile ketamine administration on the rewarding effects of ethanol in male and female adolescent rats. (2019), Volume Garden Grove, CA., Sergio Iniguez, Daniela Franco, Arturo Zavala, J Zamudio .
• Fluoxetine exposure in adolescent and adult female mice decreases cocaine and sucrose preference later in life. (2019), Volume Casablanca, Morocco., Sergio Iniguez, Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez.
• Aggression alters mood-related behavior in adult sexually experienced male CD-1 mice. (2019), Volume Chicago, IL., Sergio Iniguez, Anapaula Themann, Omar Lira, Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez.
• Female rats display greater neuronal activation in the interpeduncular nucleus during nicotine withdrawal than males (2019), Volume Chicago, IL., Sergio Iniguez, Felix Matos, P Correa, V Correa, Luis M. Carcoba, Arturo Zavala, Laura E. O'Dell.
• The enduring anxiogenic phenotype induced by juvenile antidepressant exposure is ameliorated by fluoxetine re-exposure in adult female C57BL/6 mice. (2019), Volume Chicago, IL., Sergio Iniguez, Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez, Omar Lira, Flor D. Rodriguez, Diamond Pardo, Joshua Preciado-Piña, Samuel Castillo.
• Upregulation of hippocampal extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)-2 induces antidepressant-like behavior in the rat forced swim test. (2019), Volume Chicago, IL., Sergio Iniguez, Israel Garcia-Carachure, Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez.
• Vicarious social defeat stress induces depression related outcomes in a sex-specific manner in adolescent C57BL/6 mice (2019), Volume Chicago, IL., Sergio Iniguez, Minerva Rodriguez, D J. Flores-Ramirez.

• Vicarious social defeat stress: A novel model of psychological stress-induced depression
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