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My first name is pronounced like mitochondria

Andrea KH Stavoe, PhD

I received my BS in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology/Biotechnology and BA in French from Michigan State University in 2008 . I earned my MPhil (2010) and PhD (2015) degrees in Cell Biology from Yale University in the lab of Dr. Daniel Colón-Ramos, studying the molecular mechanisms of presynaptic assembly in C. elegans. I was a postdoctoral trainee with Dr. Erika Holzbaur, investigating the dynamics of neuronal autophagy during aging in primary murine neurons (2015–2020, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania). I became an Assistant Professor in September, 2020 in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth (University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston).

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