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Booker T. Davis IV, Ph.D.
Project Title: Fecal Microbiota Transfer Attenuates Aged Gut Dysbiosis and Functional Deficits after Traumatic Brain Injury
Northwestern University at Chicago
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Claire L. Riggs, Ph.D.
Project Title: Stress tolerant annual killifish: a new model for the cellular stress response
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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Cristina Roman-Vendrell, Ph.D.
Project Title: Mechanisms of endosomal dysfunction at synapses in a-synuclein pathology
Marine Biological Laboratory
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Erica J Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Project Title: Dissecting the synaptic and circuit mechanisms underlying olfactory-driven social behavior
Columbia University Health Sciences
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Ewa Karolina Bomba-Warczak, Ph.D.
Project Title: Mitochondrial Fidelity in Mammalian Neurons
Northwestern University at Chicago
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Jaye Gardiner, Ph.D.
Project Title: Elucidating the epigenetic regulation of extracellular matrix and virus-induced fibroblast activation
Research Institute of Fox Chase Cancer Center
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Joan M Pulupa, Ph.D.
Project Title: Identifying the mechanism of olfactory receptor gene regulation in olfactory neurons with live-cell imaging
Columbia University Health Sciences
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Karl-Frederic Vieux, Ph.D.
Project Title: Studying the modulators and the physiological functions of RNA tailing in the C. elegans oocyte
U.S. National Inst Diabetes/Digst/Kidney
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Laura Persson, Ph.D.
Project Title: Emergent Behavior in a Dish: Discovery of Bi-directional Spiraling as a Population Phenomenon in C. elegans Enables In-Depth Dissection of Mechanisms Underlying Group Behaviors
University Of California, San Francisco
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Lydia Grmai, Ph.D.
Project Title: Stress response signaling as a metabolic sensor in reproduction
University Of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
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Mikael Garabedian, Ph.D.
Project Title: Characterizing the role of tumor suppressor phase separation and chromatin organization in maintaining genomic integrity
University Of Pennsylvania
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Nicholas Jeremy Silva, Ph.D.
Project Title: Defining the interactions between microglia and synapses in brain development and disease
University Of California, San Francisco
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Olya Yarychkivska, Ph.D.
Project Title: Nuclear and chromatin aberrations during non-apoptotic cell death in C. elegans and mammals
Rockefeller University
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Rebecca Maria Parodi-Rullan, Ph.D.
Project Title: Cerebrovascular mitochondria as mediators of neuroinflammation in Alzheimers Disease
Temple University of the Commonwealth
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Shaneice Mitchell, Ph.D.
Project Title: Investigating the Pathological Features of Clonal Hematopoiesis-derived Macrophages
Stanford University
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Tatiana Danela Viena, Ph.D.
Project Title: Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus as a target for driving network-wide memory states
Florida International University
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Zara Weinberg, Ph.D.
Project Title: Understanding and rewiring cellular behavior with synthetic biology approaches
University Of California, San Francisco
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Erin Flaherty, Ph.D.
Project Title: The role of the clustered protocadherins in neural circuit information and implications for neurodevelopmental disorders
Columbia University
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Piero Lamelza, Ph.D.
Project Title: Using hybrid embryos to study molecular mechanisms of selfish centromeric DNA and their suppressors
University of California, Santa Cruz