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Robert Reenan trained in the graduate student laboratory of Dr. Richard Kolodner at Harvard Medical School, where he studied DNA repair processes in yeast and discovered genes that are critical in human cancer. He pursued post-doctoral work in the Laboratory of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Dr. Barry Ganetzky. His career began at the University of Connecticut Medical School in the Department of Genetics, where he identified RNA editing processes in the fruit fly's nervous system. Reenan has been a faculty member at Brown University since 2006. His research interests revolve around evolution, brain function, and behavior, primarily using Drosophila as a model. His investigations focus on how genomes encode and regulate proteins associated with rapid electrical and chemical signaling in the brain, in both normal and disease contexts. His studies include RNA editing, comparative genomics, small non-coding RNA, and amyloidogenesis. He has received funding for various projects related to neurogenetics and RNA editing from agencies such as the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Department: Department of Economics