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Dr. Mollie Meffert is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the regulation of neuronal gene expression in health and disease. Currently, she serves as the Vice Director of the Department of Biological Chemistry. The Meffert lab investigates the underlying mechanisms of enduring changes in mammalian nervous system function related to health and disease. Her lab is particularly interested in how cells in the nervous system make decisions to turn genes on or off and how these decisions are remembered through developmental processes, plasticity, injury, and disease. The lab aims to gain a mechanistic understanding of selective gene programs that are recruited and maintained to alter synaptic, neuronal, and cognitive functions. More than focusing on individual genes, they investigate the upstream processes that coordinate regulation of genes to achieve biological impact. A current focus includes the cell-specific, subcellularly localized post-transcriptional control by RNA-binding proteins and noncoding RNAs. Dr. Meffert has received several awards including a March of Dimes research scholar award and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative award, among others.
Johns Hopkins University • Baltimore, MD
Teaching and conducting research in the Department of Biological Chemistry.
Department of Pathology - PhD in Pathobiology. GRE is not required.