Background
Lakoski, Joan Marie was born on March 28, 1953 in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Daughter of Theodore J. and Vera (Andruson) Lakoski.
Lakoski, Joan Marie was born on March 28, 1953 in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Daughter of Theodore J. and Vera (Andruson) Lakoski.
AB, Mount Holyoke College, 1975; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Iowa, 1981.
Biologist, National Institute Neurosciences, Communicative Disorders and Stroke/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1975-1977; predoctoral research-teaching fellow, U. Iowa, Iowa City, 1987-1988; predoctoral research fellow, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, 1981-1984; assistant professor, University Texas Medical School, Galveston, 1984-1993; adjunct member, Marine biomedical Institute, Galveston, 1988-1993; associate professor, Penn State University College of Medicine, since 1993. Organizer 5th Galveston Neurosci Symposium on Neuroendocrine Modification of Center Nervous System. Featured panelist on Federation of America Socs. for Experimental Biology program on Curing Drug Addiction, 1990.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (chair committee preprofl. activities since 1991), Society for Neurosci. (president Galveston chapter 1991-1992), Endocrine Society (Travel award 1985), International Development Neurosci. (Young Scientist board 1992-1995), International Society Neuroendocrinology, Serotonin Club, Sigma Xi.
Married Paul M. Mayerick, May 21, 1978. Children: Vera A., Luke E.