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Lindsay M. De Biase is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She received her Bachelor of Science in Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Biology from Yale University in 2003. After graduation, she worked as a research assistant at Children’s National Medical Center, studying gene expression changes related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and acute lung injury. De Biase entered the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, earning her Ph.D. while investigating synaptic signaling between neurons and oligodendrocyte precursor cells. Her thesis work introduced novel electrophysiological approaches to analyzing neuron-OPC synapses, revealing critical insights into OPC connectivity and differentiation. Following her doctorate, De Biase completed postdoctoral training at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, uncovering specialized phenotypes of microglia in the basal ganglia, challenging existing notions of microglial uniformity in the central nervous system. She joined UCLA's faculty in 2018 and focuses her research on the roles of microglia in the basal ganglia circuits, aiming to understand how regional specialization impacts synaptic function and neuronal health in various disease contexts. Her innovative approach addresses CNS circuit dysfunctions and seeks therapeutic strategies for diverse neurological disorders.
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