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Katherine L. Thompson-Peer

Education:

B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Biology; Ph.D., Harvard University, Cell and Developmental Biology

Dissertation:

Transcriptional Regulation of Synapse Remodeling in C. elegans

Thesis Advisor:

Joshua Kaplan, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and Professor of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Research Topic:

Identifying Novel Antagonists of Regeneration in the Central and Peripheral Nervous System

Mentor:

Yuh Nung Jan, Professor of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental & Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine

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