David Werner, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for Development and Behavioral Neuroscience, Binghamton University – SUNY
Dr. Werner received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. Gregg Homanics where he investigated alcohol and anesthetic mechanisms using genetically modified mouse models. After graduating in 2007, he began a postdoctoral fellowship at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine under the guidance of Dr. A. Leslie Morrow. During this time, his research efforts were aimed at understanding alcohol-related regulation of the GABA type A receptor system using multiple cellular, biochemical and electrophysiological approaches, as well as the contribution of endogenous sex hormone-derived neuroactive steroids. Dr. Werner began a faculty position in Psychology and Integrative Neuroscience at Binghamton University in upstate New York in 2010. His work has since transitioned towards using rodent models to investigate brain-related contributors to sex differences in the context of developmental priming of alcohol use disorder. Dr. Werner is a member of the NIH-funded Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center at Binghamton as well as the Neurobiology of Adolescent Drinking In Adulthood Consortium.