Research Associates

Susana G. Sotocinal
Jean-Sebastien Austin


Postdoctoral Fellows

Andrea L. Bailey
Robert Sorge


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Ara Schorscher-Petcu
Melissa Farmer



Undergraduate Student Assistants


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Susana G. Sotocinal, M.S.
2002-present

Director of Genomics
  • Mogil, J.S., Miermeister, F., Seifert, F., Strasburg, K., Zimmermann, K., Reinold, H., Austin, J.-S., Bernardini, N., Chesler, E.J., Hofmann, H.A., Hordo, C., Messlinger, K., Nemmani, K.V., Rankin, A.L., Ritchie, J., Siegling, A., Smith, S.B., Sotocinal, S.G., Vater, A., Lehto, S.G., Klussmann, S., Quirion, R., Michaelis, M., Devor, M., and Reeh, P.W.  Variable sensitivity to noxious heat is mediated by differential expression of the CGRP gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A., 102:12938-12943, 2005.
  • Langford, D.J., Crager, S.E., Shehzad, Z., Smith, S.B., Sotocinal, S.G., Levenstadt, J.S., Chanda, M.L., Levitin, D.J., and Mogil, J.S.  Social modulation of pain as evidence for empathy in mice.  Science, 312:1967-1970, 2006.
  • Mogil, J.S., Ritchie, J., Sotocinal, S.G., Smith, S.B., Croteau, S., Levitin, D.J., and Naumova, A.K.  Screening for pain phenotypes: analysis of three congenic mouse strains on a battery of nine nociceptive assays.  Pain, 126:24-34, 2006.
  • Smith, S.B., Marker, C.L., Perry, C., Liao, G., Sotocinal, S.G., Austin, J.-S., Melmed, K., Clark, D.J., Peltz, G., Wickman, K., and Mogil, J.S.  Quantitative trait locus and computational mapping identifies Kcnj9 (GIRK3) as a candidate gene affecting analgesia from multiple drug classes. Pharmacogenet. Genom.,18:231-242, 2008.
  • LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Mo, G., Smith, S.B., Sotocinal, S.G., Ritchie, J., Austin, J.-S., Melmed, K., Schorscher-Petcu, A., Laferriere, A., Lee, T.H., Romanovsky, D., Liao, G., Behlke, M.A., Clark, J.D., Peltz, G., Seguela, P., Dobretsov, M., and Mogil, J.S.  The beta3 subunit of the Na+,K+-ATPase mediates variable nociceptive sensitivity in the formalin test.  Pain, 144:294-302, 2009.
  • Langford, D.J., Tuttle, A.H., Brown, K., Deschenes, S., Fischer, D.B., Mutso, A., Root, K.C., Sotocinal, S.G., Stern, M.A., Mogil, J.S., and Sternberg, W.F.  Social approach to pain in laboratory mice.  Soc. Neurosci., 5:163-170, 2010.
  • Langford, D.J., Bailey, A.L., Chanda, M.L., Clarke, S.E., Drummond, T.E., Echols, S., Glick, S., Ingrao, J., Klassen-Ross, T., LaCroix-Fralish, M.L., Matsumiya, L., Sorge, R.E., Sotocinal, S.G., Tabaka, J.M., Wong, D., van den Maagdenberg, A.M.J.M., Ferrari, M.D., Craig, K.D., and Mogil, J.S. Coding of facial expression of pain in the laboratory mouse.  Nature Meth., 7:447-449, 2010.
  • Schorscher-Petcu, A., Sotocinal, S.G., Ciura, S., Dupre, A., Ritchie, J., Sorge, R.E., Crawley, J.N., Hu, S.-B., Nishimori, K., Young, L.J., Tribollet, E., Quirion, R., and Mogil, J.S. Oxytocin-induced analgesia and scratching are mediated by the vasopressin-1A receptor in the mouse.  J. Neurosci., 30:8274-8284, 2010.
  • Fortin, A., Diez, E., Ritchie, J., Sotocinal, S.G., Dube, M.-P., Gagne, M., Paquette, O., Skamene, E., and Mogil, J.S. Positional cloning of a quantitative trait locus contributing to pain sensitivity: possible mediation by Tyrp1 (tyrosinase-related protein 1).  Genes Brain Behav., in press.