COURTNEA A. RAINEY

CONTACT INFORMATION

Duke University Box 90999 Durham, NC 27708

Email: [email protected] Website: www.courtnea.com

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, Psychology & Neuroscience, Expected May 2015 , Durham, NC Advisors: Dr. Alison Adcock (Psychiatry) & Dr. Brian Hare (Evolutionary )

Certificate in College Teaching, Expected May 2015 Duke University, Durham, NC

Certificate in Cognitive Neuroscience, Expected May 2015 Duke University, Durham, NC

Master of Arts, Psychology, December 2012 Duke University, Durham, NC

Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry Spelman College, Atlanta, GA Magnum Cum Laude, Departmental and College Honors

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Summer 2014: Online Apprentice (Bass Instructional Fellow) Duke University, Center for Instructional Technology • Supported the “Brain and Space” MOOC during its inaugural offering • Created weekly quizzes in the Coursera platform. • Supervised 3 undergraduate teaching assistants, providing feedback on their forum responses and quiz questions. • Edited online lecture videos in Screenflow for the “Foundational Neuroscience for Perception and Action” course. • Successfully completed the course: Online Teaching during Spring 2014.

Spring 2013: Teaching Assistant Duke University, Psychology & Neuroscience Department Developmental Psychology (Undergraduate Course) • Taught 2 discussion sections using democratic discussion techniques to encourage active learning and critical thinking. • Provided written and audio feedback to students on weekly critiques of the assigned reading. • Grading student exams and other assignments.

Spring 2012: Teaching Assistant Duke University, Psychology & Neuroscience Department Developmental Psychology (Undergraduate Course) • Created and maintained lecture and discussion course site in Sakai (course materials, calendar, grades, announcements, course mail). • Co-designed discussion curriculum. • Created and implemented lesson plans for discussion classes. • Co-taught 3 discussion sections of approximately 25 students each • Graded written assignments and exams.

Fall 2011: Teaching Assistant Duke University, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Functional Neuroanatomy (Undergraduate Course) • Prepared laboratory supplies (whole human brains and human brain sections), assisted students with lab exercises, and graded assignments for this flipped, team- based learning seminar course. • Managed grading in Blackboard.

2006 – 2007: ESL Volunteer Instructor Language ETC (Washington, DC) • Team-taught Introductory and Intermediate Adult Immersion English courses. • Designed interactive activities for students to practice spoken and written English. • Recognized as “Volunteer of the Month.”

2 Summer 2000: Instructor LearningWorks (Minneapolis, MN) • Designed and executed curriculum for math and neuroscience courses for rising seventh-graders in this summer enrichment program.

GUEST LECTURES: Fall 2013: Pathways to Biomedical Research Lesson/Discussion: Scientific Misconduct

Spring 2013: Developmental Psychology Lecture: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Spring 2011: NC State Companion Animal Club Presentation: Motivation and Learning in Animals

MENTORING EXPERIENCE:

Fall 2013 – Spring 2014: Graduate Research Mentor Research Project: Effects of Arousal, Anxiety, and Interoceptive Awareness on Memory for Primary Rewards Student: Sonal Gagrani (Duke University)

Summer 2013: Graduate Research Mentor Research Project: Interoceptive Encoding Student: Obioma Ekeledo (Summer Research Opportunity Program, Duke University) • Student presented work at the 2013 NC Biosciences Collaborative Symposium.

September 2012- March 2013: Graduate Research Mentor Research Project: Intrinsically Motivated Object Encoding Student: Brandi Lawrence (NC School of Science and Mathematics)

September 2011 – May 2012: Graduate Research Mentor Research Project: Heterospecific Conformity Student: Zoey Best (Duke University)

3 Summer 2011: Graduate Research Mentor Research Project: Motivation, Attention, and Learning in Canis familiaris Student: Cathy Wang (HHMI Summer Institute, Duke University) • Student presented work at the 2011 HHMI Undergraduate Research Symposium. • Student presented work at the 2011 State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium.

September 2010 – May 2011: Science Coach BOOST – Duke School of Medicine (Durham, NC) • Designed monthly science and social activities for a team of 6 eighth-graders • Provided guidance in the development, execution, and presentation of their group science project. (The project was presented at the BOOST poster session.)

2008 – 2009: Big Sister Big Brothers Big Sisters (Washington, DC) • Met with Little Sister at least biweekly to engage in cultural, educational, and social activities to promote personal and professional development

2003 – 2004: Mentor/Tutor Baptist Church Afterschool Program (Atlanta, GA) • Mentored 2 elementary school students, and provided tutoring and homework assistance.

2002 – 2003: Resident Assistant Spelman College (Atlanta, GA) • Developed and led social and educational programming to build community in a first year dormitory. • Received and applied conflict resolution training to promote healthy relationships between residents. • Supervised work-study students employed at the dormitory’s front desk. • Provided first response to resident inquiries, submitted work orders on behalf of the dormitory.

4 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: NEUROSCIENCE

2009 – present (Ph.D. Candidate): Duke University (Principal Investigator: Alison Adcock) Neural substrates mediating interactions between interoceptive awareness, motivation, and learning • Biological drives (such as hunger, thirst, and sexual reproduction) are potent motivators of behavior. Extrinsic rewards in the environment (i.e. food, drink, money) are also important behavioral and cognitive motivators. In addition to the relevance of an extrinsic reward in meeting the needs of biological drives, an individual’s sensitivity to the physiological state of their body (interoceptive awareness) would also be expected to mediate motivation for these extrinsic primary rewards (i.e. food, drink). My present research examines how individual differences in interoceptive awareness mediate the interaction between physiological states and motivation for extrinsic rewards as assessed by a motivated encoding paradigm (Adcock et al. 2006). These functional magnetic resonance imaging and behavioral experiments also investigate potential relationships between neural activity supporting interoceptive awareness and those supporting reward processing and memory. Importantly, a better characterization of the predicted behavioral and neural interactions between interoception, motivation, and memory systems can elucidate novel targets for interventions to facilitate motivation and memory for adaptive behaviors and/or impede motivation and memory for maladaptive behaviors (i.e. addiction, relapse, overeating).

2005 – 2007 (Postbaccalaureate Research Assistant): National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator: Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg) Facial sex hormone expression and social • Executed behavioral testing, fMRI and structural MRI data collection, data preprocessing and analysis for social cognition (i.e. neural processing of facial cues of gonadal steroid status in humans) and genetic imaging experiment data.

Summer 2004 (Undergraduate Research Assistant): Advisor: Dr. John Desmond Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA) Cerebellar contributions to verbal working memory • Conducted pilot behavioral study for a neuroimaging experiment examining the contribution of the inferior cerebellum to internally guided articulatory rehearsal during verbal working memory.

5 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

2009 – 2012 (Graduate Research Assistant): Duke University (Principal Investigator: Brian Hare) Duke Canine Cognition Center • Designed experimental methods and implemented research studies investigating spatial learning, memory, and conformity in domestic (pet) dogs. • Developed custom experimental apparatus for behavioral research in dogs. • Conducted behavioral research on lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center. • In a team collaboration, designed and executed a battery of tasks to test cognitive function (i.e. working memory, social cueing, inhibitory control) in dogs training to become service and hearing animals at Canine Companions for Independence (Santa Rosa, CA).

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: BIOCHEMISTRY & PHARMACOLOGY

2004 – 2005 (Honors Thesis Research): Spelman College (Principal Investigator: Jean-Marie Dimandja) Characterization of estrogen metabolites via 2D-gas chromatography

2003 – 2005 (NIMH-COR Scholar): Morehouse School of Medicine (Principal Investigator: Joseph Whittaker) Characterization of basal cAMP levels in the substantia nigra

Summer 2002 (NIEHS Undergraduate Summer Training in Environmental Toxicology): University of California, Davis (Principal Investigator: Isaac Pessah) Characterizing calcium release in skeletal ryanodine receptor

SERVICE:

2014-2015: Duke University Judicial Board • Nominated by the Dean of the Graduate School to serve as a member of the Judicial Board in the event a case goes before the board.

6 November 13-16, 2013: Recruiter for Duke Graduate School and Duke School of Medicine Ph.D. Programs • Recruited undergraduate students and recent college graduates attending the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) to apply to biomedical graduate programs at Duke University.

November 2013 - March 2014: Duke GradX Planning Committee • GradX is an annual event where Duke Graduate and Professional School students present TED talk-style presentations of their research. • Reviewed applications to select graduate and professional students to present at GradX. • Assisted in preparations for the event and assisted in the event’s production.

June 2013: Preparing Future Faculty Fellows Program Selection Committee • Reviewed applications for selection of the 2013-2014 Preparing Future Faculty Fellows.

November 2012- March 2013: Co-director of School Outreach Brain Awareness Week – Duke University (Durham, NC) • Organized and coordinated 27 visits to Durham Public middle and high schools by Duke undergraduate and graduate students.

November - March 2012: Co-director of School Outreach Brain Awareness Week – Duke University (Durham, NC) • Organized and coordinated 26 visits to Durham Public middle and high schools by Duke undergraduate and graduate students. • Created the curriculum (“Memory and the Hippocampus”) volunteers presented to students. • Taught 4 classroom visits.

March 2011, March 2010: Instructor and Volunteer Brain Awareness Week – Duke University (Durham, NC) • Worked as part of a team to develop curriculum on the brain for school visits. • Taught 11 school visits. • Organized outreach visits to the Wake County Juvenile Detention Center. • Helped organize two laboratory open house exhibits in neuroeconomics and evolutionary anthropology during Brain Awareness Week.

7 WORK EXPERIENCE

June 2014: Biology Thesis Assessment Protocol (BioTAP) Assessor Duke University (Durham, NC) • Participated in an assessment of honors theses as part of the NSF grant “Understanding the Role of Writing in Promoting Learning and Engagement for Diverse Undergraduate Thesis Writers”. (PIs Julie Reynolds and Robert Thompson, Duke University).

2012 – 2013: Program Coordinator – Office of Science Education & Diversity National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (RTP, NC) • Coordinated the NIEHS Scholars Connect Program, a year-round research program for undergraduate STEM students. • Planned curriculum, recruited speakers for and organized weekly research, professional, and career development Seminars for the NIEHS Scholars Connect Program. • Designed and managed the application, applicant selection, and program evaluation processes. • Conducted information sessions at North Carolina colleges and universities to promote awareness of the program among faculty and career centers and to recruit applicants. • Coordinated interests and needs of NSCP’s diverse stakeholders (i.e. research mentors, students, advisory committee, administrative management)

2007 – 2009: Program Coordinator – Science Education Initiatives (UNCF-Merck Science Initiative) United Negro College Fund (Fairfax, VA) • Administer UNCF/Merck Science Initiative undergraduate scholarships and graduate/postdoctoral fellowships. • Moderate the online application process, prepare applications for review by Merck personnel, maintain current information with and assist UNCF/Merck Fellows. • Help plan, prepare for, and execute the annual UNCF/Merck Fellows Day conference.

8 HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Bass Instructional Fellowship (Summer 2014) Biosciences Collaborative for Research Engagement Founder (Fall 2013-present) Preparing Future Faculty Fellow (Fall 2012 – Spring 2013) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2010 – present) Dean’s Graduate Fellowship (2009 – present) James B. Duke Fellowship (2009-present) University Scholars Fellowship (2009-2010) Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (inducted 2005) Beta Kappa Chi Honor Society (inducted 2005) NIMH-Careers and Opportunities in Research Scholar (2003-2005) Spelman College Presidential Scholar (2001-2005) Ethel Wadeii Honors Program (2001-2005) Honor Roll (2001-2005) Dean’s List (2001-2005)

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Zink, C.F. Kempf, L., Hakimi, S., Rainey, C.A., Stein, J.L., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2011) Vasopressin modulates social recognition-related activity in the left temporoparietal junction in humans. Translational Psychiatry, 1(4), e3-5.

Murty, V.P., Labar, K.S., Rainey, C., Hamilton, D., Adcock, R.A. The impact of approach and avoidance motivation on spatial learning in humans. Toronto, Canada: Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2010.

Rainey, C., Draper, C.K., Zink, C.F., Chen, Q., Stein, J.L., Kempf, L., Tong, Y., Swaddle, J.P., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. Differences in neural processing of facial cues of gonadal steroid status in humans. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society For Neuroscience, October 14 – 18, 2006, Atlanta, GA.

Rainey, C., Draper, C., Zink, C., Chen, Q., Stein, J.L., Kempf, L., Tong, Y., Swaddle, J.P., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. Neural processing of covert facial cues for estrogen levels in humans. Poster presented at the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 11-15, 2006, Florence, Italy.

Rainey, C., Draper, C., Zink, C., Chen, Q., Stein, J.L., Kempf, L., Tong, Y., Swaddle, J.P., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. Neural processing of facial cues of gonadal steroid status in humans. Poster presented at the NIH Postbaccalaureate Research Festival, May 24, 2006, Bethesda, MD.

Rainey, C. Processing facial cues of gonadal steroid status in humans: an fMRI study. Talk presented as part of the NIH Postbaccalaureate Seminar Series, June 26, 2006, Bethesda, MD.

9 Rainey, C., Kirschen, M., Desmond, J. Cerebro-cerebellar activations during verbal working memory. Talk presented at National Institute of Mental Health Career Opportunities in Research Education and Training Honors Colloquium, November 10 – 13, 2004, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Rainey, C., Kirschen, M., Desmond, J. Cerebro-cerebellar activations during verbal working memory. Talk presented at The Leadership Alliance Annual National Symposium, July 30 – August 1, 2004, Chantilly, VA.

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