Graduate Student

Email: E[email protected]

Emily is Biomedical Sciences PhD student currently in her fall rotation in the lab. She is a Maryland native with a freshly-minted B.S. in Physiology & Neurobiology and B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. During her undergraduate research, Emily studied the effects of fetal nicotine exposure on inhibition of impulsive action in rats and activity in the prefrontal cortex. In a bioinformatics lab, she also studied selection of the intrinsic disorder characteristic of proteins and regulation by intronic enhancers. Her research interests are in neuroinformatics, specifically at the genetic, molecular, and cellular level of developmental and degenerative neural disorders. In the Sherr lab, Emily studies a signal transduction pathway which may be involved in autism. Outside of the lab, Emily spends her time cooking, gardening, volunteering at the Stanford Blood Center, hiking, and reading Game of Thrones.