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CHRISTY K. CORTEZ
Past Education:
University of Texas, 2000
B.A. in Psychology
Minor in Biological Sciences
Graduate Program:
Neuroscience |
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Honors and Awards:
2006 C. Werner and Kitty Hirs Research Award
2005 Southwest Regional Meeting for the Society for Developmental Biology Poster Session; Honorable Mention
Society for Developmental Biology Scholarship to attend the Embryology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory, 2005
University of Texas Presidential Endowed Scholarship, 1999-2000
Haraldson Foundation Scholarship, 1996-2000
Research Interests:
I am studying the early development of two embryonic cell types that contribute to the nervous system: neural crest cells, which form most of the peripheral nervous system, and Rohon-Beard sensory neurons, which are part of the central nervous system and perform the function of the dorsal root ganglia before they are innervated. Both cell types form at the border of the neural plate and non-neural ectoderm in developing embryos and respond to a similar set of signals. I am specifically interested in the cellular and molecular relationships between these cell populations before the neural plate border forms and during its earliest stages of development.
General Interests:
Yoga, hiking, snowboarding, reading (book club), playing with my dog.
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