No info available.

• National Award of Excellence in Mentoring - National Hispanic Science Network (01/01/2016-12/31/2016)
• Outstanding Performer Award for Securing Extramural Funding - UTEP office of Research and Sponsored Projects (01/01/2016-12/31/2016)
• Faculty Mentor Award - UTEP College of Undergraduate Research Initiatives (01/01/2015-12/31/2015)
• Oustanding Performer Award for Securing Extramural Funding - UTEP office of Research and Sponsored Projects (01/01/2013-12/31/2013)
• Travel Award - American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (01/01/2009-12/31/2009)
• Outstanding Performance Award - UTEP Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (01/01/2008-12/31/2008)
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) - National Science and Technology Council (01/01/2008-12/31/2008)
• Outstanding Young Investigator Award - UTEP office of Research and Sponsored Projects (01/01/2007-12/31/2007)
• Outstanding Young Investigator Award - UTEP Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (01/01/2007-12/31/2007)
• Travel Award - College of Problems of Drug Abuse (01/01/1999-12/31/1999)

• Ph D in Behavioral Neuroscience, Arizona State University (1997)
• MS in Behavioral Neuroscience, Arizona State University (1994)
• BS in Psychology, Texas A&M University (1992)

• The emergence of insulin resistance following a chronic high-fat diet regimen coincides with an increase in the reinforcing effects of nicotine in a sex-dependent manner. Neuropharmacology 200 (2021), Bryan Cruz, S Ortegon, P Giner, F Matos-Ocasio, A Rodriguez-Crespo, Kevin P. Uribe, K I. Galindo, Katherine M. Serafine, A Nazarian, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Vulnerability to substance abuse: A consideration of allostatic loading factors. Neuropharmacology 199 (2021), Laura E. O'Dell, G F. Koob, A Nazarian.
• Converging vulnerability factors for compulsive food and drug use. Neuropharmacology 196 (2021), Katherine M. Serafine, Laura E. O'Dell, E P. Zorrilla.
• Exposure to nicotine vapor produced by an electronic nicotine delivery system causes short-term increases in impulsive choice in adult male rats. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2021), R J. Flores, Fatima Z. Alshbool, P Giner, Laura E. O'Dell, Ian A. Mendez.
• Female rats display greater nicotine withdrawal-induced cellular activation of a central portion of the interpeduncular nucleus versus males: A study of Fos immunoreactivity within provisionally assigned interpeduncular subnuclei Drug and Alcohol Dependence 221 (2021), Felix Matos-Ocasio, Veronika E. Espinoza, Paola Correa-Alfonzo, Arshad Khan, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Amino acid systems in the interpeduncular nucleus are altered in a sex-dependent manner during nicotine withdrawal. Journal of neuroscience research (2021), Luis Carcoba, Kevin P. Uribe, S Ortegon, Ian A. Mendez, M DeBiasi, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Insulin restores the neurochemical effects of nicotine in the mesolimbic pathway of diabetic rats. Journal of neurochemistry 156 2 (2021), Bryan Cruz, Luis Carcoba, R J. Flores, E J. Espinoza, A Nazarian, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Estradiol promotes and progesterone reduces anxiety-like behavior produced by nicotine withdrawal in female rats. Psychoneuroendocrinology 119 (2020), R J. Flores, Bryan Cruz, Kevin P. Uribe, V L. Correa, M C. Arreguin, Luis Carcoba, Ian A. Mendez, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Examination of nicotine and saccharin reward in the Goto-Kakizaki diabetic rat model. Neuroscience letters 721 (2020), J R. Richardson, Laura E. O'Dell, A Nazarian.
• Overexpression of corticotropin-releasing factor in the nucleus accumbens enhances the reinforcing effects of nicotine in female versus male rats Neuropsychopharmacology (2020), Kevin P. Uribe, Victor L. Corres, Briana E. Pinales, Rodolfo J. Flores, Bryan Cruz, Zhiying Shan, Adriaan W. Bruijnzeel, Arshad Khan, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Overexpression of corticotropin-releasing factor in the nucleus accumbens enhances the reinforcing effects of nicotine in intact female versus male and ovariectomized female rats. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 45 2 (2020), Kevin P. Uribe, V L. Correa, B E. Pinales, R J. Flores, Bryan Cruz, Z Shan, A W. Bruijnzeel, Arshad Khan, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Sex differences in cholinergic systems in the interpeduncular nucleus following nicotine exposure and withdrawal. Neuropharmacology 158 (2019), V L. Correa, R J. Flores, Luis Carcoba, M C. Arreguin, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Insulin modulates the strong reinforcing effects of nicotine and changes in insulin biomarkers in a rodent model of diabetes. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 44 6 (2019), Bryan Cruz, R J. Flores, Kevin P. Uribe, E J. Espinoza, Charles Spencer, Katherine M. Serafine, A Nazarian, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Sex differences in nicotine intravenous self-administration: A meta-analytic review. Physiology & behavior 203 (2019), R J. Flores, Kevin P. Uribe, N Swalve, Laura E. O'Dell.
• Insulin dependent and independent normalization of blood glucose levels reduces the enhanced rewarding effects of nicotine in a rodent model of diabetes. Behavioural brain research 351 (2018), J Íbias, Laura E. O'Dell, A Nazarian.
• Amino acid modulation of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens mediates sex differences in nicotine withdrawal. Addiction biology 23 5 (2018), Luis Carcoba, R J. Flores, L A. Natividad, Laura E. O'Dell.
• A single vectored thermal pulsation treatment for meibomian gland dysfunction increases mean comfortable contact lens wearing time by approximately 4 hours per day. Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) 12 (2018), C A. Blackie, C A. Coleman, K K. Nichols, Larry P. Jones, P Q. Chen, R Melton, D L. Kading, Laura E. O'Dell, S Srinivasan.
• Both nicotine reward and withdrawal are enhanced in a rodent model of diabetes. Psychopharmacology 234 9-10 (2017), Joseph A. Pipkin, Bryan Cruz, R J. Flores, Cristina Hinojosa, Luis Carcoba, M Ibarra, Wendy S. Francis, A Nazarian, Laura E. O'Dell.

• Prolonged alcohol and nicotine exposure suppresses inflammatory markers and stress hormone levels (2017), Bryan Cruz, Rodolfo J. Flores, Danielle Martinez, Alejandra Lopez, Evangelina Espinoza, Cecilia A. Hinojosa, Charles Spencer, Laura E. O'Dell.
• 'Nicotine exposure alters neuronal cytoskeleton by PI3K/GSK3β mediated pathway' (2017), Volume UTEP, Clarisa Palacios, Karen Castaneda, Manuel Miranda-Arango, Laura E. O'Dell, Sukla Roychowdhury.

• Vulnerability Issues in Drug Abuse: Career and Research Transdisciplinary Training Program (VIDA:CART)
• Insulin Mechanisms of Diabetes-Evoked Enhancement of Nicotine Reward