Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD

Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology

Primary Office: 2-430 BSB
51 Newton Road
Iowa City, IA  52242
Office Phone: (319) 335-6944

Lab office: 2-400 BSB
Lab Phone: (319) 335-7769
Email: catherine-marcinkiewcz@uiowa.edu

Catherine Marcinkiewcz received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins and later pursued a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Florida, which is close to her hometown of Tampa.  She later completed her postdoctoral training at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, where she developed an interest in the neurobiology of alcohol use disorders. In April of 2018, she joined the faculty in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Iowa to start her own lab. Her hobbies include hiking, kayaking, traveling and photographing wildlife, one of her favorite subjects being the horseshoe crab.


Jaclyn Adams

Research Assistant
Address: 2-400 BSB
Phone: (319) 335-7769
Email: jaclyn-adams-1@uiowa.edu


Yu Xu

Research Assistant
Address: 2-400 BSB
Phone (319) 335-7769
Email: yu-xu-1@uiowa.edu


Ka
nza Khan, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Address: 2-400 BSB
Phone: (319) 335-7769
Email: kanza-khan@uiowa.edu

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Thomas James, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar
2-400 BSB
(319) 335-7769
Email: thomas-james@uiowa.edu

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Samantha Pierson

Graduate Research Assistant
2-400 BSB
(319) 335-7769
Email: samantha-bral@uiowa.edu


Undergraduate Students

  • Natalie Biggerstaff
  • David Kim
  • Kaitlyn Walsh