Christina Lebonville PhD
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Biography
Christina Lebonville, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor at MUSC. She studies the neurobiological mechanisms at intersection of stress and alcohol use disorder in mouse models and has a particular passion for investigating across biological sex. She completed her Psychology PhD in the department of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she investigated context-conditioned immune responses and gained an interest in understanding how the brain senses and regulates peripheral processes like stress and immune responses. Dr. Lebonville uses a combination of behavioral, histological, and molecular analyses which she integrates with in vivo neuronal activity to answer her research questions. She uses machine learning (AI) to track and analyze behavior in diverse models of negative affect and is passionate about validating AI models before using them. Dr. Lebonville’s research aims to understand how alcohol affects behavioral and physiological threat responses, potentially leading to vulnerability to negative mood disorders like PTSD, anxiety, and depression.