Curriculum Vita

Education:

                 Washington State University                                                              Northwestern College

                 Pullman, Washington                                                                            St. Paul, Minnesota              

                 Degree: Ph.D., 2006;  M.S., 2003                                                      Degree: B.S., 1999

                 Program: Experimental Psychology                                                 Major: Psychology

Memberships:

                 Society for Neuroscience                                                                     2003– Current

                 Council on Undergraduate Research                                                2008– Current

Publications

Research Papers

               Olson, M. L. & Cero, I. J.* (2010).  Intrahippocampal norleucine1-angiotensin IV mitigates scopolamine-induced spatial working memory deficits. Peptides, 31: 2209-2215.

                 Olson, M. L., Meighan, P.C., Brown, T.E., Asay, A. L., Benoist, C.C., Harding, J. W., Wright, J. W.  (2008).  Hippocampal MMP-3 activation is associated with passive avoidance conditioning.  Regulatory Peptides 146: 19-25.

               Meighan, S.M., Meighan, P. C., Choudhury, P., Olson, M. L., Davis, C. J., Wright, J. W., Harding, J. W. (2006).  Effect of extracellular matrix degrading proteases MMP-3 and MMP–9 on spatial learning and synaptic plasticity.  Journal of Neurochemistry 96(5): 1227-41.

               Wright, J.W., Meighan, S.E., Murphy, E.S., Holtfreter, K.L., Davis, C.J., Olson, M.L., Benoist, C.C., Muhunthan, K., Harding, J.W. (2006).  Habituation of the head-shake response induces changes in brain matrix metalloproteinases-3 and -9.  Behavioral Brain Research 174(1): 78-85.

                 Olson, M. L., Olson, E. A., Qualls, J. H.*, Stratton, J. J.*, Harding, J. W., Wright, J. W. (2004).  Norleucine(1)-Angiotensin IV alleviates mecamylamine-induced spatial memory deficits.  Peptides 25(2): 233-41.

                 Wright, J. W., Murphy, E. S., Elijah, I. E., Holtfreter, K. L., Davis, C. J., Olson, M. L., Muhunthan, K., Harding, J. W. (2004).  Influence of hippocampectomy on habituation, exploratory behavior, and spatial memory in rats.  Brain Research 1023(1): 1-14.      

               

Chapters

               Wright, J.W., Olson, M.L. and Harding, J.W.  The role of the brain angiotensin system in learning, memory, and neural plasticity.  In Trends in Learning Research, Editor: Samuel N. Hogan, 2006, pp. 1-39.

 

Recent Meeting Abstracts

               Randolph, K.M., Fom, T.M., Olson, M.L.  Memory formation is associated with changes in hippocampal cortactin.  National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Eau Claire, WI (2009).                   Fom, T.M., Olson, M.L. Reductions in hippocampal cortactin are observed following spatial working memory formation.  Private College Scholars at the Capitol, St. Paul, MN (2009).

                 Olson, M.L., Beyer, J.R*., Fom, T.M.*, Hendricks, C.R.*, Randolph, K.M.*  Spatial working memory formation is associated with changes in hippocampal cortactin.  Society for Neuroscience Conference, Washington, D.C. (2008).                 

Concordia College, Department of Psychology

Dr. Mikel L. Olson, Ph.D.