Nour Al-muhtasib

Nour Al-muhtasib is an instructor in the Department of Biology. Dr. Al-muhtasib's graduate research focused on the neurons within the nucleus accumbens and how they differed from each other. Dr. Al-muhtasib teaches general biology, human physiology, and neurobiology. 

She is passionate about making the classroom an inclusive place for all students and decolonizing her curriculum.

• Biology
• Neuroscience
• Pharmacology
• Molecular and cellular physiology

• Georgetown University, PhD in Pharmacology, 2018
• University of Maryland, College Park, BS in Biochemistry, 2006

• Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Psychiatry, Yale University

• Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2019
• Graduate Student Teaching Award, 2017

• Nour Al-muhtasib, P. Forcelli, S. Vicini. (2018). Differential electrophysiological properties of D1 and D2 spiny projection neurons in the mouse nucleus accumbens core. Physiological Reports.
• Nour Al-muhtasib, A. Sepulveda-Rodriguez, S. Vicini, and P. Forcelli. (2018). Neonatal phenobarbital exposure disrupts GABAergic synaptic maturation in rat CA1 neurons. Epilepsia,59(2):333-344. 
• N. Al-muhtasib, PA. Forcelli, KE. Conant, S. Vicini. (2018). MMP-1 overexpression selectively alters inhibition in D1 spiny projection neurons in the mouse nucleus accumbens core. Scientific Reports. 1;8(1)16230.