PRECLINICAL SCIENCE
Top image: Practicing at Inwood Hill Park, NYC
Postdoctoral Work
08/2010 – 09/2014: I worked with Helen Scharfman at the Nathan Kline Institute. Here, I investigated postnatal neurogenesis in the hippocampus and its role in seizure generation and propagation. Publications from this position are listed here.
Some of the abstracts presented at The American Epilepsy Society (AES) on my postdoctoral work are:
Doctoral work
08/2005 – 08/2010: For my graduate work, I worked with David Mott at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, where I used electrophysiology to study synaptic plasticity in epilepsy. I studied neuregulin – a peptide that regulates synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and its role in epilepsy. The publication from this position is listed here. Details regarding my graduate work are below:
08/2010 – 09/2014: I worked with Helen Scharfman at the Nathan Kline Institute. Here, I investigated postnatal neurogenesis in the hippocampus and its role in seizure generation and propagation. Publications from this position are listed here.
Some of the abstracts presented at The American Epilepsy Society (AES) on my postdoctoral work are:
- Use of ethosuximide to improve outcome in the kainic acid model of temporal lobe epilepsy (link here).
- Effects of kainic acid in mice with impaired cleavage of proneurotrophins (link here).
- Selective changes in kainic acid-induced convulsive seizures in adult mice with reduced postnatal neurogenesis (link here).
Doctoral work
08/2005 – 08/2010: For my graduate work, I worked with David Mott at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, where I used electrophysiology to study synaptic plasticity in epilepsy. I studied neuregulin – a peptide that regulates synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and its role in epilepsy. The publication from this position is listed here. Details regarding my graduate work are below:
- Dissertation title: “Neuregulin/ErbB Signaling in Epilepsy,” dissertation advisor: Dr. David Mott.
- Wrote a successfully-funded pre-doctoral fellowship worth $20,000/year.
- Trained students, established lab protocols, and constructed the field electrophysiology rig.
- Differential regulation of synaptic plasticity in epilepsy (link here).