Selected Publications

Published in peer-review journals

• Blackwood C.A,McCoy M.T, Lendenheim B, Cadet J.L.  Oxycodone self-administration activates the mitogen-activated protein kinase/ mitogen- and stress-activated protein kinase (MAPK-MSK) signaling pathway in the rat dorsal striatum. Scientific Reports, 2021
• Salisbury A.J., Blackwood C.A, Cadet J.L. Prolonged Withdrawal from Escalated Oxycodone is Associated with Increased Expression of Glutamate Receptors in the Rat Hippocampus. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020
• BlackwoodC.A,Bailetti A, NandiS, GridleyT, HébertJ.M.  NotchDosage: Jagged1haploinsufficiency is associated with reduced neuronal division and disruption of periglomerular interneurons. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020. 
• Blackwood C.A,McCoy M.T, Lendenheim, Cadet J.L. Escalated Oxycodone Self-Administration and Punishment: Differential Expression of Opioid Receptors and Immediate Early Genes in the Rat Dorsal Striatum and Prefrontal Cortex. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020
• Blackwood C.A,Leary M, Salisbury A, McCoy M.T, Cadet JL Escalated oxycodone self-administration causes differential striatal mRNA expression of FGFs and IEGs following abstinence-associated incubation of oxycodone seeking. Neuroscience, 2019 
• Blackwood C.A.Quantitative approach to numbers and sizes: Generation of primary neurospheres from the dorsal lateral ganglionic eminence of late embryonic mice. F1000Research, 2019.
• Blackwood C.A.Jagged1is essential for maintaining radial glial cells in the cortical ventricular zone. Neuroscience, 2019 
• Blackwood C.A,Hoerle R, Leary M, Schroeder J, Job M.O, McCoy M.T, Ladenheim B, Jayanthi S, and Cadet J.L. Molecular adaptations in the rat dorsal striatum and hippocampus following abstinence-induced incubation of drug seeking after escalated oxycodone self-administration. Molecular Neurobiology, 2019
• NandiS, GutinG., BlackwoodC.A, KamatkarN.G, LeeK.W, WangF, FishellG, GoldfarbM, Hébert,J.M.FGF-Dependent, Context-Driven Role for FRS Adapters in the Early Telencephalon.Journal of Neuroscience, 2017
• Lopez-Jimenez ND, Sainz E, Cavenagh MM, Cruz-Ithier MA, Blackwood C.A, Battey JF, Sullivan SL. Two novel genes, Gpr113, which encodes a family 2 G-protein-coupled receptors, and Trcg1, are selectively expressed in taste receptor cells. Genomics, 2005

Published conference and dissertation papers

• Cadet JL and Blackwood C.A. Expression of striatal fibroblast growth factors in rats after escalated oxycodone self-administration.  Biological Psychiatry, 2019
• Cadet JL and Blackwood C.A. Mimicking oxycodone use disorder with footshock punishment as adverse consequences: Role of IEGs in the rat striatum and prefrontal cortex. Biological Psychiatry, 2020 Blackwood, C.A. 
• Blackwood C.A. The role of Jagged1 in the subventricular zone during late embryonic development, Dissertation,Cornell University, 2014
• Faria AC, Blackwood C.A, Hokoc JN. The expression of amyloidal precursor protein in retina tissue possesses a novel location to study Alzheimer’s disease, Dissertation, University of Rio de Janiero, 2000

Grants and Sponsored Research

• NIDA Intramural Research Training Awards (IRTA) Fellowship, 2017-2020  
• IRACDA-BETTR(K12)Fellowship(5K12GM102779-06),  2014-2017
• NRSA(NIH)F31Fellowship(Blackwood,PI)(5F31DC011709-03)($75,000), 2011-2013 
• Cornell University Provost Diversity Fellowship, 2011-2012
• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship ($21,000), 2011-2012 
• NIHPre-IRTA Fellowship, 2003-2006 
• Fogarty Minority International Research Training Fellowship, 2000          
• Minority Access to ResearchCareers(MARC) Fellowship, 1999-2001