Wan-Ling Tseng, Ph.D. – 2022
Wan-Ling Tseng, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry Yale School of Medicine Linkedin Globe Twitter Neural Markers of Chronic, Persistent Pediatric Irritability Irritability, an increased propensity to experience anger and frustration, affects up to 3.7 million children and adolescents in the U.S. Irritability and anger outbursts are among the most common reasons why children are […]
Sichen Shao, Ph.D. – 2018
Sichen Shao, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School Linkedin Globe Twitter Activation of Nonsense-mediated Decay in Genetic Diseases and Childhood Development Mutations that introduce a premature termination codon (PTC) into protein-coding transcripts cause over 10% of congenital diseases. Nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) is a dedicated cellular pathway that degrades these mRNAs […]
Amy Lee, Ph.D. – 2017
Amy Lee, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biology Department of Biology Brandeis University Linkedin Globe Twitter Regulation of mRNA Translation Initiation in Development Human development requires exquisite spatial and temporal control of the proteins that are expressed in a cell. Translation initiation factors are key players in protein synthesis, and although alterations to these factors […]
Dorothy Schafer, Ph.D. – 2016
Dorothy Schafer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Massachusetts Medical School Linkedin Globe Twitter The Function of Immune Cells and Sensory Experience on Brain Circuit Development Aberrant synaptic connectivity and abnormal sensory perception are hallmark features of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Interestingly, these defects are often accompanied by abnormally reactive microglia, resident brain immune cells. However, […]