Education & Professional History
University of Texas at El Paso, BA, MA, PhD
Mayra Gisel Flores-Montoya (Ph.D. in Psychology with a concentration in neuroscience) teaches courses in Health Psychology, Neuroimmunology, and Neuroscience. Her research focuses on examining how early chronic exposure to low-level lead alters memory in children. She conducts interdisciplinary and translational research to answer this question and uses animal models examining effects of low-level lead on behavior and the early neuroimmune system. Another focus of interest is how the neuroimmune and peripheral immune system modulate cognitive function in homeostasis and disease states.
At Carleton since 2017.
Current Courses
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Fall 2023
PSYC 260:
Health Psychology
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PSYC 261:
Health Psychology Lab
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PSYC 300:
Special Topics in Psychological Research
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Spring 2024
PSYC 110:
Principles of Psychology
Flores-Montoya, M.G., Quintero, D., Chatterjea, D., Uttley, H., Liphart, C., Tian Z., Yim, E., Hu, F., (2023). The C-C Chemokine Receptor 7: As An Immune Molecule that Modulates Central Nervous System Function in Homeostasis and Disease. Brain Behavior and Immunity – Health, (in press).
Flores-Montoya, M.G., Tian Z., Michii, A. The effect of chronic low-level lead exposure on microglia and a test of possible mitigation by apigenin in young mice. (Manuscript under review).
Sobin, C., Gutierrez-Vega, M., Flores-Montoya, G., Del Rio M, Alvarez, J.M., Obeng, A., Avila, J., Hettiarachchi, G. (2022). Improving equitability and inclusion in testing and detection of lead poisoning in U.S. children. Milbank Quarterly (in press).
Flores-Montoya, M.G., Vines, C., Bill, C., & Sobin C. (2019). Early chronic lead exposure reduced C-C chemokine receptor 7 in hippocampal microglia. Toxicology Letters, 314, 106-116.
Dominguez, S., Flores-Montoya, M.G., Sobin, C. (2019). Early chronic exposure to low- level lead alters total hippocampal microglia in pre-adolescent mice. Toxicology Letters, 302:75-82. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2018.10.016. Epub 2018 Oct 21. PMID: 30352268.
Alvarez J., Del Rio, M., Mayorga T., Dominguez, S., Flores-Montoya G., & Sobin, C. (2018).”A comparison of child blood lead levels in urban and rural children ages 5 to 12.” Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 75(4), 503-511.
Sobin C., Flores-Montoya, M. G., & Alvarez J. (2017). Early chronic low-level lead exposure alters global behaviors in young C57BL/6J mice during the object-in-place visual recognition memory task. Journal of Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 61, 104-114.
Flores-Montoya, M. G., Alvarez, J., & Sobin C. (2015). Olfactory recognition memory is disrupted in young mice with chronic low-level lead exposure. Toxicology Letters, 236(1), 69–74.
Sobin, C., Flores-Montoya M. G., Gutierrez, M., Parisi N., & Schaub T. (2014). δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase single nucleotide polymorphism 2 (ALAD2) and peptide transporter 2*2 haplotype (hPEPT2*2) differently influence neurobehavior in low-level lead exposed children. Journal of Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 47, 137-145.
Flores-Montoya, M. G., & Sobin C. (2014). Early chronic lead exposure reduces exploratory activity in young C57BL/6J mice. Journal of Applied Toxicology, 35(7), 759–765.
Sobin C., Flores, M. G., Parisi N., Schaub T., Cervantes M., & Armijos, R.X.M. (2013). Microglial disruption in young mice with early chronic exposure to lead. Toxicology Letters, 220(1), 44-52.
