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Mollie Meffert is an Associate Professor in the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She investigates mechanisms underlying enduring changes in mammalian nervous system function in health and disease. Her research focuses on how cells of the nervous system make decisions that impact gene expression related to learning, memory, development, plasticity, injury, and disease. The Meffert lab aims to understand the selective gene programs that are recruited and maintained, influencing synaptic, neuronal, and cognitive function. They examine upstream processes that coordinate gene regulation to achieve biological impacts, with a special interest in RNA-binding proteins and noncoding RNAs. Dr. Meffert's contributions to the field have been recognized with several awards including the March of Dimes research scholar award and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative award. She received her MD and PhD in neuroscience from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. Her laboratory employs molecular diagnostics, biochemistry, computational biology, quantitative imaging, and both mouse and human genetic models in neurodevelopment and neural disease research.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine • Baltimore, MD
Research in the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, focusing on gene expression and neuronal functions.
Department of Pathology - PhD in Pathobiology. GRE is not required.