Jacquelyn L. Meyers, PhD

Dr. Meyers has advanced level training in psychiatric epidemiology and molecular genetics, with a focus on traumatic stress and substance use disorders. She also has extensive research experience in neurocognitive markers of addiction. This has culminated in the interdisciplinary program of research she leads at SUNY Downstate, examining the confluence of psychosocial, genetic, and neurodevelopmental risk factors for substance use disorders.  She has also been recently appointed as Co-Director of the Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Institute, one of SUNY Downstate’s most successful and longest running research laboratories. She has received a K01 award from NIDA, a NARSAD Early Investigator award, and currently serves as PI, Co-I or Project Lead on R01, U10 and U01 grants from the NIAAA, NIDA, and NIMH. She also has leadership roles in several collaborative research projects at the intersection of addiction and genomics, including the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA, co-leads the Brain Function project), the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (co-leads the PTSD-Substance Use Disorder comorbidity working group), and ENIGMA (Enhancing Neuro Imagining Genetics through Meta-Analysis) EEG working group.  Her work has been recognized with the 2019 Research Society on Alcoholism’s Young Investigator Award and by the JAACAP for the Editor’s Best Paper of 2019. In addition to her research, she is dedicated to teaching and mentorship, including serving as the primary research mentor to PhD and MD/PhD candidates and psychiatry residents and leading several courses and lectures in the areas of psychiatric and genetic epidemiology across campus. She is also a member of over 11 professional and academic committees, both at SUNY Downstate and through professional academic associations. Recently, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she was funded by the NIAAA to study COVID-19 related traumatic stress and impacts on mental health and substance use disorders in the COGA study and by the NIMH to study the impact of social connection on mental health and substance use in the MACS/WHIS.

 

Title: Brain Function and Neurogenomic influences on AUD risk and resilience 

Project Number: R01 AA028848 

Name of PD/PI: Bernice Porjesz, Jacquelyn L. Meyers, Chella Kamarajan, Ashwini Pandey 

Source of Support: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 

 

Title: COVID-19 pandemic stress and coping activities, polygenic and neural vulnerabilities in those at risk for Alcohol Use Disorders 

Project Number: R01 AA029914 

Name of PD/PI: Jacquelyn L. Meyers, Bernice Porjesz 

Source of Support: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 

 

Title: Social connections, risk for COVID-era psychiatric and substance use disorders, and HIV control 

Project Number: R01 MH128955 

Name of PD/PI: Jacquelyn Meyers, Tracey Wilson 

Source of Support: National Institutes of Health  

 

Title: Gene-Environment Interaction for Cannabis Use Disorders in Blacks and Whites in the U.S

Project Number: K01 DA037914

Name of PD/PI: Jacquelyn L. Meyers

Source of Support: National Institute of Drug Abuse

 

Title: The Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism

Project Number: U10 AA008401

Name of PD/PI: Porjesz, Foroud, Hesselbrock

Source of Support: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

 

Title: African Ancestry Genomic Psychiatry Cohort

Project Number: R01 MH104964

Name of PD/PI: Pato, Pato, Fanous, Bigdeli

Source of Support: National Institute of Mental Health

 

Pending NOA:

Title: Genetic relationships between PTSD and Alcohol Use Disorder: Integrating GWAS and Deeply Phenotyped Longitudinal data.  

Project Number: 1 R01 AA030010 

Name of PD/PI: Jacquelyn L. Meyers, Ananda Amstadter 

Source of Support: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 

Project/Proposal Start and End Date: (MM/YYYY): 4/2022-3/2027