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Gjoneska, Elizabeth
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Neuroscience

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Aging/Alzheimer's, Behavior, Epigenetics, Genomics, Immunology, Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, Neurobiology, Stem Cells

Neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease (AD) represent a global health emergency. Evidence showing that systemic inflammation can exacerbate cognitive decline during neurodegeneration, including AD, and identification of disease-associated genetic risk variants that perturb function of microglia, the resident brain immune cells, reveal that microglia play an active role in disease progression. Studies in the Gjoneska group aim to elucidate the mechanisms underlying microglia dysfunction during AD. To that end, our group combines cutting edge molecular, cellular and genomic tools together with genetic in vivo approaches to understand how genetic and environmental risk factors alter the function of microglia and contribute to increasing susceptibility to AD.

Roland, Abigail

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Developmental Biology, Epigenetics, Epigenetics & Chromatin Biology, Molecular Biology

“I love studying epigenetics and its wide ranging applications from cancer biology to cell differentiation. In graduate school, I hope to explore the mechanisms and impacts of epigenetic regulation in normal development and disease conditions. I also have an interest in neuroscience and am interested in potentially conducting research on chromatin states epigenetic regulatory events within the brain.”