Linda Rinaman, PhD
Florida State University
Dr. Linda Rinaman earned her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 followed by postdoctoral training with Pat Levitt, Gloria Hoffman, and Joseph Verbalis. She established her independent research group in 1995 at the University of Pittsburgh, where she rose to the rank of Full Professor, directed the Neuroscience Graduate Training Program, and served as Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies. In 2017, Prof. Rinaman was recruited back to her undergraduate alma mater, joining the Dept. of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience at Florida State University. At FSU, her NIH-funded research program uses rodent models to examine the multi-synaptic neural pathways through which animals respond to emotional and physiological stress, and how early life nutrition and other experiences modify these neural circuits to shape life-long motivated behaviors and stress responsiveness.