Member of Phi Beta Kappa (2016-present)
Member of International Zebrafish Society (2018-2019)
Facilitated the Cleveland Neuroscience Innovators Program (CNIP) (July 2017 & 2018)
Served as Michelson & Morley research competition judge (April 2018)
Served as SOURCE Intersections poster competition judge (December 2019)
Academic Award, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, 2020
Recknagel Symposium Award, 2020
Worked as teaching assistant for Introduction to Neurobiology lab course at CWRU (two semesters)
Worked as teaching assistant for Development and Physiology lab course at CWRU (three semesters)
List of Publications:
Kindig K, Stepanyan R, Kindt KS, McDermott BM Jr. Asymmetric mechanotransduction by hair cells of the zebrafish lateral line. Curr Biol. 2023 Mar 10:S0960-9822(23)00173-2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.033.
Kumar A, Kindig K, Rao S, Zaki AM, Basak S, Sansom MSP, Biggin PC, Chakrapani S. Structural basis for cannabinoid-induced potentiation of alpha1-glycine receptors in lipid nanodiscs. Nat Commun. 2022 Aug 18;13(1):4862. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32594-5. PMID: 35982060; PMCID: PMC9388682.
Chen Z.*, Zhu S.*, Kindig K.J.*, Wang S., Chou S-W., Woods Davis R., Dercoli M.R., Weaver H., Stepanyan R., and McDermott B.M. (2020) Tmc proteins are essential for zebrafish hearing where Tmc1 is not obligatory. Human Molecular Genetics, ddaa045, https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddaa045
Chou S., Chen Z., Zhu S., Davis R.W., Hu J., Liu L., Kindig K.J., Brown W., Fernando C.A., Stepanyan R., and McDermott B.M. (2017) A molecular basis for water motion detection by the mechanosensory lateral line. Nature Communications 8: 2234.