Graduate student
University of Tennessee
My name is Diana Zebadúa Unzaga, and I am from Mexico City. I earned my degree in veterinary medicine from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2013. Interested in equine medicine, I did an internship in a private practice in Mexico City, followed by an internship at the Large Animal Hospital in the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada). These internships deepened my interest in internal medicine, and I pursued that interest by completing a 3-year Large Animal Medicine residency program at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine (Knoxville, USA). The collaboration, mentorship, teaching and research that characterize working in an academic environment inspired me to seek a faculty position, which requires in-depth research training. Thus, I am currently a 4th year graduate student in Experimental Psychology (Neuroscience and Behavior) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Graduate school has shown me a vast world of new opportunities, developing my interest in neuroscience, and sparking my love for research.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
- O’Brien CB, Locklear CE, Glovak ZT, Zebadúa Unzaga D, Baghdoyan HA, Lydic R. Opioids cause dissociated states of consciousness in C57BL/6J mice. Journal of Neurophysiology 126(4):1265-1275, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00266.2021.
ABSTRACTS
- Zebadúa Unzaga D, Zhu X, Price J, Lydic R, Baghdoyan HA. “Fentanyl-induced sleep disruption in C57BL/6J (B6) mice is not secondary to increased motor activity or hypothermia.” FASEB J, in press, 2022.
- Zebadúa Unzaga, D., Bustamante GC, Thibert MK, Baghdoyan HA. “Fentanyl and morphine cause dose-dependent sleep-disruption in C57BL/6J (B6) mice.” Experimental Biology. April 2021, online. https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.01706
- O’Brien C, Zebadúa Unzaga D, Baghdoyan HA, Lydic R. “Fentanyl but not morphine, increases cortical electroencephalographic (EEG) delta power during wakefulness in C57BL/6J (B6) mice.” Experimental Biology. April 2021, online. https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.01699
- Locklear, C., Bustamante, C., Glovak, Z., Zebadúa Unzaga, D., O’Brien, C., Lydic, R., & Baghdoyan, H. (2019). Systemically administered opiates disrupt the architecture of sleep and wakefulness in mouse. Society for Neuroscience. October 2019, Chicago (IL). doi:https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/7883/presentation/54154