Brian Lloyd completed his MD/PhD at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and performed his PhD thesis work in the laboratory of HHMI investigator Jason Aoto where Brian used novel CRISPR tagging techniques and super resolution microscopy to examine the localization of neurexins at excitatory synapses in the hippocampus. He has published four manuscripts in this area, including in journals such as Nature Communications, Learning and Memory and Developmental Psychobiology.
Get to Know Brian
- Hometown: Arvada, CO
- Professional Interests: mood disorders and psychosis
- Future Plans: academic medicine and continued basic science research
- Awards/Grants: T31 recipient (University of Colorado pharmacology T32 2019-2021)
- Memberships: American Medical Association, Golden Key Honour Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Society for Neuroscience
- Hobbies: choir, keeping a coral reef aquarium and hiking
Education
- MD/PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 2025
- BS, University of Colorado, Denver, 2016
- BS, Unviersity of Denver, 2013
Publications
- Lloyd BA, Han Y, Roth R, Zhang B, Aoto J. Neurexin-3 subsynaptic densities are spatially distinct from Neurexin-1 and essential for excitatory synapse nanoscale organization in the hippocampus. Nature Communications. 2023. PMID: 37543682.
- Dawud LM, Loetz EC, Lloyd B, Beam R, Tran S, Cowie K, Browne K, Khan T, Montoya R, Greenwood BN, Bland ST. A novel social fear conditioning procedure alters social behavior and mTOR signaling in differentially housed adolescent rats. Developmental Psychobiology. 2021. PMID: 32524583.
- Bouchet CA, Lloyd BA, Loetz EC, Farmer CE, Ostrovskyy M, Haddad N, Foright RM, Greenwood BN. Acute exercise enhances the consolidation of fear extinction memory and reduces conditioned fear relapse in a sex-dependent manner. Learning and Memory. 2017. PMID: 28716955.
- Lloyd BA, Hake HS, Ishiwata T, Farmer CE, Loetz EC, Fleshner M, Bland ST, Greenwood BN. Exercise increases mTOR in brain regions involved in cognition and emotional behavior. Behavioural Brain Research. 2017. PMID: 28130174