Biography

Over the next year, I will be pursuing research with Drs. David Rubinsztein and Angeleen Fleming exploring the roles autophagy, a cellular recycling process, plays in the nervous system in normal and diseased states. Currently, I plan to work on two aspects of autophagy: its role in the development of the nervous system and its function in clearing protein aggregates. I hope that during my year here, I will be able to contribute to our understanding of the functions of autophagy in the brain.