• Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, 2010
• Doctor of Philosophy, Neuroscience, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2016

Journal Articles

Peter Kovacs, Lauren N Beloate and Nanyin Zhang, 2024, "Perturbing cortical networks: surprising in vivo electrophysiological consequences of chemogenetic manipulations using deschloroclozapine", Frontiers in Neuroscience, 18

Ping-Chung Chen, Xian Han, Timothy I Shaw, Yingxue Fu, Huan Sun, Mingming Niu, Zhen Wang, Yun Jiao, Brett JW Teubner, Donnie Eddins, Lauren N Beloate, Bing Bai, Joseph Mertz, Yuxin Li, Ji-Hoon Cho, Xusheng Wang, Zhiping Wu, Danting Liu, Suresh Poudel, Zuo-Fei Yuan, Ariana Mancieri, Jonathan Low, Hyeong-Min Lee, Mary H Patton, Laurie R Earls, Elizabeth Stewart, Peter Vogel, Yawei Hui, Shibiao Wan, David A Bennett, Geidy E Serrano, Thomas G Beach, Michael A Dyer, Richard J Smeyne, Tudor Moldoveanu, Taosheng Chen, Gang Wu, Stanislav S Zakharenko, Gang Yu and Junmin Peng, 2022, "Alzheimer’s disease-associated U1 snRNP splicing dysfunction causes neuronal hyperexcitability and cognitive impairment", Nature Aging, 2, pp. 923-940

Lauren N Beloate and Nanyin Zhang, 2022, "Connecting the dots between cell populations, whole-brain activity and behavior", Neurophotonics, 9, (032208)

Rusty Nall and Lauren N Beloate, 2022, "Assessing Combined Effects of Varenicline and N-acetylcysteine on Reducing Nicotine Seeking in Rats", Addiction Biology, 27, (2)

Kuiper B Lindsey and Lauren N Beloate, 2019, "Drug-taking in a socio-sexual context enhances vulnerability for addiction in male rats", Neuropsychopharmacology, 44, (3)

Lauren N Beloate and Lique M Coolen, 2017, "Influences of social reward experience on behavioral responses to drugs of abuse: Review of shared and divergent neural plasticity mechanisms for sexual reward and drugs of abuse.", Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 83, pp. 356-372

Lauren N Beloate, 2016, "Ventral tegmental area dopamine cell activation during male rat sexual behavior regulates neuroplasticity and d-Amphetamine cross-sensitization following sexual abstinence", Journal of Neuroscience, 36, (38), pp. 9949-9961

Lauren N Beloate, 2015, "Nucleus accumbens NMDA receptor activation regulates amphetamine cross-sensitization and deltaFosB expression following sexual experience in male rats", Neuropharmacology, 101, pp. 154-164

Kyle K Pitchers, Caroline M Coppens and Nikki Beloate, 2014, "Endogenous opioid-induced neuroplasticity of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area influences natural and opiate reward", Journal of Neuroscience, 34, (26), pp. 8825-8836

Service to Penn State:

• Committee Work, Committee Member, special committee member, doctoral committee, Zili Yan doctoral committee, August 2024

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Faculty Selection Committee, Schreyer Honors College, Schreyer Honors College's Faculty Selection Committee, December 2022 - January 2024

• Committee Work, Co-Organizer, Professional Track Faculty Affinity Group, 2023

Service to External Organizations: