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Appointment
- Research Fellow
- Department of Neuromuscular Diseases
- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
- Faculty of Brain Sciences
Biography
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Professor Pietro Fratta.
I am originally from St. Louis, Missouri and completed my BS in Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2006. An interest in medical research led me to join the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, where I completed a PhD. I worked in the labs of Denis Wirtz and Ted and Valina Dawson. I studied the function of a newly identified AAA+ ATPase called Thorase in AMPA receptor trafficking and the protection of neurons from excitotoxicity.
After I completed my PhD, I joined the lab of Thimo Kurz in the MRC-PPU Unit at the University of Dundee and the Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Glasgow. I studied the new roles of the ubiquitin like modifier NEDD8 in the response to stress and the role of Ubqln2 in ALS and FTD.
Currently in the Fratta lab, I am investigating how the loss of TDP-43 function leads to aberrant splicing and how these changes in splicing contribute to the patho-physiology of ALS and FTD.
I am originally from St. Louis, Missouri and completed my BS in Chemical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2006. An interest in medical research led me to join the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, where I completed a PhD. I worked in the labs of Denis Wirtz and Ted and Valina Dawson. I studied the function of a newly identified AAA+ ATPase called Thorase in AMPA receptor trafficking and the protection of neurons from excitotoxicity.
After I completed my PhD, I joined the lab of Thimo Kurz in the MRC-PPU Unit at the University of Dundee and the Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Glasgow. I studied the new roles of the ubiquitin like modifier NEDD8 in the response to stress and the role of Ubqln2 in ALS and FTD.
Currently in the Fratta lab, I am investigating how the loss of TDP-43 function leads to aberrant splicing and how these changes in splicing contribute to the patho-physiology of ALS and FTD.
Academic Background
PhD | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | ||
BS | Chemical Engineering |