CURRICULUM VITAE


Sika Zheng, Ph.D.

Professor of Biomedical Sciencs

Founding Director, Center for RNA Biology and Medicine

2125 Multidisciplinary Research Building
900 University Avenue
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Office: 951-827-7670

Lab: 951-827-4525

Email: sika.zheng@ucr.edu

Web: zhenglab.ucr.edu

RNA Center: https://rna.ucr.edu/



EDUCATION

2007 Ph.D. in Neuroscience. The Solomon H Snyder Department of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205

2001 B.S. in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology. Distinguished Graduate Award. Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084.

EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

07/2023-present Professor of Biomedical Sciences (with tenure), University of California Riverside

04/2022-present Founding Director, Center for RNA Biology and Medicine, University of California Riverside

07/2020-06/2026 Graduate Advisor, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California Riverside

07/2024-08/2026 Co-Director, Musculoskeletal Medicine (MDCL 234, Medical School Education Curriculum Block 4). University of California Riverside

07/2020-06/2023 Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences (with tenure), University of California Riverside

07/2020-/062023 Co-Director, Foundations of Medicine I (MDCL231, Medical School Education Curriculum Block 1). University of California Riverside

05/2014-06/2020 Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, University of California Riverside

05/2013-04/2014 Assistant Project Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Los Angeles

09/2007-04/2013 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA

AWARDS AND HONORS

2025 Excellence in Pre-Clerkship Teaching

2024 Distinguished SOM to UCR Cross-Campus Community Service Award

2022 Annual Block Director Teaching Award

2019 University of California Regents Faculty Development Award

2015 University of California Regents Faculty Fellowship

2013 NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)

2007-2013 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship

2012 Sydney Finegold Award

2012 “Fine Science Tools” Award for Excellence in Neuroscience Research

2012 MBI Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UCLA

2006 NIMH Pre-doctoral Research Festival

2005 GSA Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

2003-2005 Pre-doctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association

2001 Distinguished Graduate Award, Tsinghua University

2000 Procter & Gamble Fellowship

1999 NOVO NORDISK Fellowship

1998 “12.9” Fellowship

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

(corresponding author*)

Five Representative Research Articles

  1. Kubota N, Chen L, Zheng S*. “Shiba: A versatile computational method for systematic identification of differential RNA splicing across platforms”. Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 Feb 8;53(4):gkaf098. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf098. (PMID: 39997221)

  2. Lin L, Zhao J, Kubota N, Li Z, Lam YL, Nguyen LP, Yang L, Pokharel SP, Blue SM, Yee BA, Chen R, Yeo GW, Chen CW, Chen L, Zheng S*. “Epistatic interactions between NMD and TRP53 control progenitor cell maintenance and brain size”. Neuron. 2024 Jul 3;112(13):2157-2176.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.04.006. (PMID: 38697111)

  3. Vuong JK, Ergin V, Chen L, Zheng S*. Multilayered Regulations of Alternative Splicing, NMD, and Protein Stability Control Temporal Induction and Tissue-specific Expression of TRIM46 during Axon Formation. Nature Communications 2022 Apr 19;13(1):2081. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29786-4. (PMID: 35440129)

  4. Lin L, Zhang M, Stoilov P, Chen L, Zheng S*. “Developmental attenuation of neuronal apoptosis by neural specific splicing of Bak1 microexon”. Neuron 2020 Sep 23;107(6):1180-1196.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.06.036. (PMID: 32710818)

  5. Zhang M, Ergin V, Lin L, Stork C, Chen L, Zheng S*. “Axonogenesis Is Coordinated by Neuron-Specific Alternative Splicing Programming and Splicing Regulator PTBP2”. Neuron. 2019 Feb 20; 101(4): 690-706. (PMID: 30733148)

Five Representative Reviews

  1. Nikom D, Zheng S*. Alternative splicing in neurodegenerative disease and the promise of RNA therapies. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2023 Aug;24(8):457-473. doi: 10.1038/s41583-023-00717-6. (PMID: 3733698)

  2. Lin L, Kubota N, Kaneshiro N, Zheng S*. “Long live the RNAs: The guardians of neuronal longevity?”. Molecular Cell. 2024 Jun 6;84(11):2014-2016. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.05.015. (PMID: 38848690)

  3. Zheng S*. “Alternative splicing programming of axon formation”. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA 2020 Jul;11(4):e1585. doi: 10.1002/wrna.1585. Epub 2020 Jan 10. (PMID: 31922356)

  4. Vuong CK, Black DL, Zheng S*. “The Neurogenetics of Alternative Splicing”. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2016 Apr 20;17(5):265-81. (PMID:27094079)

  5. Zheng S*. “Alternative splicing and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay enforce neural specific gene expression”. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience 2016 Dec;55:102-108. (PMID: 26968265)

Additional Senior Author Publications

  1. Lin L, Kubota N, Song MM, Zhang M, Zheng S*. “Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay orchestrates neuronal migration and cortical lamination while modulating reelin and ciliary gene regulatory networks”. Cell Reports. 2026 Mar 24;45(3):117027. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117027. (PMID: 41746809)

  2. Jiang W, Zheng S*, Chen L*. “The implications of alternative splicing regulation for maximum lifespan”. Nature Communications 2025 Nov 24;16(1):10317. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-65339-1. (PMID: 41285791)

  3. Zhang M, Kubota N, Nikom D, Arient A, Zheng S*. “PTBP1 depletion in mature astrocytes reveals distinct splicing alterations without neuronal features.” Elife. 2025 Nov 21;14:RP107683. doi: 10.7554/eLife.107683. (PMID: 41268909)

  4. Zhao J, Li Z, Puri R, Liu K, Nunez I, Chen L, Zheng S*. Molecular profiling of individual FDA-approved clinical drugs identifies modulators of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Mol Therapy Nucleic Acids. 2021 Dec 10;27:304-318. doi: 10.1016/j.omtn.2021.12.003. 2022 Mar 8. (PMID: 35024243)

  5. Jiang W, Chen L, Zheng S*. Global reprogramming of apoptosis-related genes during brain development. Cells. 2021 Oct 27;10(11):2901. doi: 10.3390/cells10112901 (PMID: 34831124)

  6. Chen L, Zheng S*. Understand variability of COVID-19 through population and tissue variations in expression of SARS-CoV-2 host genes. Inform Med Unlocked. 2020;21:100443. doi: 10.1016/j.imu.2020.100443. (PMID: 33072849)

  7. Ergin V, Zheng S*. “Putative coiled-coil domain dependent autoinhibition and alternative splicing determine SHTN1’s actin activity”. Journal of Molecular Biology 2020 Jun 26;432(14):4154-4166. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.04.025. Epub 2020 May 1. (PMID: 32371045)

  8. Stork C, Li Z, Lin L, Zheng S*. “Developmental Xist induction is mediated by enhanced splicing”. Nucleic Acids Research. 2019 Feb 20; 47(3): 1532-1453. (PMID:30496473)

  9. Chen L, Zheng S*. 2018. BCseq: accurate single cell RNA-seq quantification with bias correction. Nucleic Acids Research. 2018 Aug 21;46(14):e82. (PMID:29718338)

  10. Li Z, Vuong JK, Zhang M, Stork S, Zheng S*. “Inhibition of nonsense-mediated RNA decay by ER stress”. RNA 2017 Mar;23(3):378-394 (PMID:27940503)

  11. Vuong JK, Lin CH, Zhang M, Chen L, Black DL, Zheng S*. “PTBP1 and PTBP2 serve both specific and redundant functions in neuronal pre-mRNA splicing”. Cell Reports 2016 Dec 6;17(10):2766-2775. (PMID:27926877)

First Author Publications

  1. Zheng S, Damoiseaux R, Chen L, Black DL. “A broadly applicable high-throughput screening strategy identifies new regulators of Dlg4 (Psd-95) alternative splicing.” Genome Research 2013; 23(6): 998-1007. (PMID: 23636947)

  2. Zheng S, Black DL. “Alternative pre-mRNA splicing in neurons, growing up and extending its reach.” Trends in Genetics 2013; 29(8): 442-8. (PMID: 23648015)

  3. Zheng S, Gray EE, Chawla G, Porse BT, O’Dell TJ, Black DL. “PSD-95 is post-transcriptionally repressed during early neural development by PTBP1 and PTBP2.” Nature Neuroscience 2012; 15(3): 381-388. (PMID: 22246437)

  4. Zheng S, Eacker SM, Hong SJ, Gronostajski RM, Dawson TM, Dawson VL. “NMDA-induced neuronal survival is mediated through nuclear factor I-A in mice.” Journal of Clinical Investigation 2010; 120(7):2446-56. (PMID: 20516644)

  5. Zheng S, Chen L. “A hierarchical Bayesian model for comparing transcriptomes at the individual transcript isoform level.” Nucleic Acids Research 2009; 37(10):e75 (PMID: 19417075)

Other Publications

  1. Ergin V, Erdogan M, Yasar E, Zheng S. “Exploring shootin1's oncogenic role within FGFR2 gene fusions”. Turkish Journal of Biology 2025 Sep 28;49(7):811-824. doi: 10.55730/1300-0152.2782. (PMID: 41496852)

  2. Shimada A, Kubota N, Zheng S, Morishita R, Yokoyama T, Hoshi N, Mantani Y. “Colonizing bacteria around aggregated lymphoid tissue of the rat ascending colon change diurnally and affect the host local transcriptome”. Cell and Tissue Research 2025 Aug 26. doi: 10.1007/s00441-025-04000-1. (PMID: 40856817)

  3. Zhao J, Zheng S*. Global Assessment of Protein Translation in Mammalian Cells Using Polysome Fractionation. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2666:157-164. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3191-1_12. (PMID: 37166664)

  4. Hoang T, Kim DW, Appel H, Ozawa M, Zheng S, Kim J, Blackshaw S. Ptbp1 deletion does not induce astrocyte-to-neuron conversion. Nature. 2023 Jun;618(7964):E1-E7.doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06066-9. (PMID: 37286658)

  5. Li Z, Zheng S*. Quantitative Measurement of Alternatively Spliced RNA Isoform Levels. Methods Molecular Biology, 2022;2537:63-79. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2521-7_5.

  6. Hoang T, Kim DW, Appel H, Pannullo NA, Leavey P, Ozawa M, Zheng S, Yu M, Peachey NS, Blackshaw S. Genetic loss of function of Ptbp1 does not induce glia-to-neuron conversion in retina. Cell Reports. 2022 Jun 14;39(11):110849. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110849. (PMID: 35705053)

  7. Pandya-Jones A, Markaki Y, Serizay J, Chitiashvili T, Mancia Leon WR, Damianov A, Chronis C, Papp B, Chen CK, McKee R, Wang XJ, Chau A, Sabri S, Leonhardt H, Zheng S, Guttman M, Black DL, Plath K.. “A protein assembly mediates Xist localization and gene silencing”. Nature 2020 Nov;587(7832):145-151. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2703-0. (PMID: 32908311)

  8. Soto EL, Gandal M, Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis T, Heller E, Luo D, Zheng S. “Mechanisms of Neuronal Alternative Splicing and Strategies for Therapeutic Interventions”. Journal of Neuroscience 2019 Oct 16;39(42):8193-8199. (PMID: 31619487)

  9. Yeom KH, Mitchell S, Linares AJ, Zheng S, Lin CH, Wang XJ, Hoffman A, Black DL. “Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein blocks miRNA-124 biogenesis to enforce its neuronal-specific expression in the mouse”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2018. Nov 20;115(47):E11061-E11070 (PMID:30401736)

  10. Stork C, Zheng S* “High-throughput screening method to identify alternative splicing regulators”. Methods Mol Biol. 2018;1755:65-74. (PMID:29671263)

  11. Zheng S*. “A Cell-Based High-Throughput Method for Identifying Modulators of Alternative Splicing”. Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1648:221-233. (PMID:28766300)

  12. Stork C, Zheng S*. “Genome-wide profiling of RNA-protein interactions using CLIP-Seq”. Methods in Molecular Biology. 2016;1421:137-51.(PMID:26965263)

  13. Zheng S*. “IRAS: High-Throughput Identification of Novel Alternative Splicing Regulators”. Methods in Enzymology. 2016;572:269-89. (PMID:27241759)

  14. Li Q, Zheng S, Han A, Lin C, Stoilov P, Fu XD, Black DL. "The splicing regulator PTBP2 controls a program of embryonic splicing required for neuronal maturation." eLife 2014 Jan 21; 3(0): e01201 (PMID: 24448406)

  15. Tang ZZ, Sharma S, Zheng S, Chawla G, Nikolic J, Black DL. “Regulation of the mutually exclusive exons 8a and 8 in the CaV1.2 calcium channel transcript by polypyrimidine tract-binding protein.” Journal of Biological Chemistry 2011; 286(12):10007-16. (PMID: 21282112)

  16. Chen L, Zheng S. “Studying alternative splicing regulatory networks through partial correlation analysis.” Genome Biology 2009; 10(1): R3 (PMID: 19133160)

  17. Tang ZZ, Zheng S, Nikolic J, Black DL. “Developmental control of CaV1.2 L-type calcium channel splicing by Fox proteins.” Molecular and Cellular Biology 2009; 29(17):4757-65. (PMID: 19564422)

  18. Chen L, Zheng S. “Identify alternative splicing events based on position-specific evolutionary conservation.” PLoS ONE 2008; 3(7): e2806 (PMID: 18665247)

Complete List of Published Work in MyBibliography:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/sika.zheng.1/bibliography/public/

CONFERENCE ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES (since 2014)

2026

RNA Technology and Therapeutics Symposium. San Diego, CA

Gordon Research Conference: Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation. Portland, Maine

6th RNA Metabolism in Neurological Disease Conference. San Diego, CA

2025

University of California Irvine: Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series

Cold Spring Harbor Meetings: Eukaryotic mRNA Processing

The 30th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society, Plenary Session. San Diego, CA

City of Hope: RNA Center Seminar Series

2024

Weill Cornell Medicine: Appel Forum Seminar Series

University of Connecticut: Physiology and Neurobiology Seminar Series

Future Vision Foundation Forum. Santa Barbara, CA

Pathways to Wellness Lecture Series. Palm Desert, CA

2023

Vollum Institute at Oregon Health & Science University: Neuroscience Seminar Series

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Developmental Biology Program.

Cold Spring Harbor Meeting: Eukaryotic mRNA Processing

Fusion Conference: Neuroepigenetics and Neruoepitranscriptomics. Rivera Maya, Mexico

Patricia Levy Zusman International Workshop on Neuroregeneration. Houston, TX

Baylor College of Medicine: Neuroscience Seminar series

Penn State University, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences: Neuroscience Seminar series

2022

Inaugural Symposium, Center for RNA Biology and Medicine, University of California Riverside

University of Pennsylvania, Mahoney Institute of Neurosciences: Neuroscience Seminar series

University of Michigan: RNA Center Seminar Series

2021

Cold Spring Harbor Meeting: Eukaryotic mRNA Processing

University of Southern California: Craniofacial Molecular Biology Seminar Series

11th California ALS Research Network Summit

2020

Stony Brook University: Neuroscience Seminar Series

International Neuro Zoom Research Talks

Fusion Conference: Neuroepigenetics and Neruoepitranscriptomics. Nassau, Bahamas

The 13th Annual Symposium on Glial-Neuronal Interactions in Health and Disease

2019

City of Hope: Beckman Research Institute Seminar Series

University of Southern California: Neuroscience Seminar Series

Columbia University: Motor Neuron Center Seminar Series

Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting: Symposium

Case Western Reserve University: Department of Genetics Seminar Series

The Inaugural MolMed Symposium on Translational medicine at UCR

2018

Cold Spring Harbor Meeting: Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity

American Society for Neurochemistry Annual Meeting: Symposium

Fusion Conference: Neuroepigenetics and Neruoepitranscriptomics. Cancun, Mexico

2017

West Virginia University: Department of Biochemistry Seminar Series

International Conference and Exhibition on Biochemistry. Chicago, IL

The 3rd annual RNA Symposium, University of California Irvine

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Biochemistry Seminar Series

2015

University of California, San Diego

Keystone Symposia on Neuroepigenetics. Santa Fe, New Mexico

2014

Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference on RNA biology

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Major Grant Review Panels

08/2026 Ad hoc, NIH study section: Molecular, Genetic, and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Brain Disease

04/2026 Ad hoc, The Molecular Neurogenetics (MNG) study section, NIH

07/2021-06/2025 Regular Member, The Neurogenesis and Cell Fate (NCF) Study Section, NIH

03/2021 Ad hoc, ZRG1 HGR-P (M2) 1, Systematic Characterization of Genomic Variation on Genome Function and Phenotype, NIH

02/2021 Ad hoc, ZRG1 BCMB-N (50), NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Competition

07/2020 Ad hoc, Dean’s Biomed Collaborative Seed Grant (UCR)

02/2020 Ad hoc, ZRG1 BCMB-N (50) R, NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Competition

06/2019 Ad hoc, The Neurodifferentiation, Plasticity, Regeneration and Rhythmicity (NDPR) study section, NIH

09/2018 Ad hoc, European Research Council Consolidator Grant panel, European Research Council

06/2018 Ad hoc, The Neurogenesis and Cell Fate (NCF) Study Section, NIH

02/2018 Ad hoc, The Molecular Neurogenetics (MNG) study section, NIH

01/2018 Ad hoc, The Neurodifferentiation, Plasticity, Regeneration and Rhythmicity (NDPR) study section, NIH

10/2017 Ad hoc, The Neurogenesis and Cell Fate (NCF) Study Section, NIH

06/2017 Ad hoc, The Molecular Neurogenetics (MNG) study section, NIH

2017 Ad hoc, City of Hope – UC Riverside Biomedical Research Initiative

2017 Ad hoc, UCR Collaborative Seed Grant Program


Journal Reviews (alphabetical order)

ASN Neuro, Cell Genomics, Cell Reports, Cerebral Cortex, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Development Cell, eLife, European Journal of Neuroscience, FEBS, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Genes & Development, Genome Research, iScience, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Molecular Cell, Molecular Psychiatry, Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Neuron, Nucleic Acids Research, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, PLOS Biology, PNAS, RNA, RNA Biology, Science Advances, Science Translational Medicine, Scientific Reports, Translational Psychiatry, Trends in Neuroscience, WIREs RNA

Web of Science Verified Peer Review: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/2102924

Conferences

2027 Session Chair, Cold Spring Harbor Meeting: Eukaryotic mRNA Processing

2026 Organizer, Collaboration Symposium, Center for RNA Biology and Medicine, UCR

2025 Organizer, 3rd Annual Symposium, Center for RNA Biology and Medicine, UCR

2024 Organizer, 2nd Mini-Retreat, Center for RNA Biology and Medicine, UCR

2023 Organizer, 2nd Annual Symposium, Center for RNA Biology and Medicine, UCR

2022 Organizer, Inaugural Symposium, Center for RNA Biology and Medicine, UCR

2022 Organizer, Mini-Retreat, Center for RNA Biology and Medicine, UCR

2022 Organizer, Annual Symposium of Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB), UCR

2019 Session Chair, and Poster judge, Southern California RNA meeting

2018 Poster judge, Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics symposium

2018 Symposium Chair, RNA processing and regulation in brain development and disorders, American Society for Neurochemistry annual meeting

2018 Organizer and session chair, School of Medicine Research Retreat

2017 Poster judge, Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics symposium

2016 Poster judge, The 9th Annual CGNI Symposium

2014 Poster judge, Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics symposium

Academic Program Review

2023 Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Evaluation of Merit and Promotion

2026 Full Professor with Tenure, University of Connecticut Storrs

2026 Full Professor with Tenure, University of Connecticut Health, School of Medicine

2026 Associate Professor with Tenure, University of California Irvine

2025 Associate Professor appointment, Columbia University

2025 Associate Professor with Tenure, Tulane University

2024 Associate Professor with tenure appointment, University of Chicago

2024 Full Professor with tenure appointment, Tsinghua University

2020 Full Professor, Above-Scale, appointment, University of California Los Angeles

2019 Assistant Project Scientist appointment, University of California San Diego


UNIVERISTY SERVICE (since 2014)

Committee service

09/2026-present Mentor, The Advancement and Retention in Academe Program, UCR

07/2026-present Research Advisory Committee to VC Chancellor

10/2024-04/2025 MCSB Faculty Search Committee, UCR

06/2024-present Biomedical Sciences Faculty Search Committee, UCR

11/2020-08/2026 SOM Pre-Clerkship Curriculum Committee (PCCS), UCR

07/2020-06/2026 Graduate Advisor, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, UCR

07/2020-06/2026 SOM Graduate Advisory Committee, UCR

06/2020-06/2025 Medical Education Committee, UCR SOM

06/2019-present Executive Committee of the Neuroscience Graduate Program, UCR

07/2024-06/2025 IIGB Seminar Committee, UCR

02/2025-04/2025 Nominating Committee for the Director of the Neuroscience Program, UCR

10/2019-09/2024 Professionalism Executive Committee (PEC), UCR SOM

09/2020-06/2023 UCR Senate Committee on Faculty Welfare

12/2022-06/2023 Biomedical Sciences Faculty Search Committee, UCR

04/2023-06/2023 UCR Medical Education Voting Committee

12/2021-11/2022 Biomedical Sciences Faculty Search Committee

08/2022-11/2022 2022 BMSC Strategic Retreat Planning Committee, UCR

01/2020-06/2021 Oversight Committee for SOM Process, Grants, and Reporting (UCR SOM)

02/2021-03/2021 Biomedical Sciences Specialist Search Committee, UCR

01/2020-07/2020 Faculty Advisory Committee for the UCR Imaging Core

06/2020-07/2020 Review Committee for the Dean’s Biomed Collaborative Seed Grant

11/2018-02/2020 Neuroscience Program Admissions Committee

02/2019-02/2020 Biomed Mentorship Committee

11/2018-02/2020 Biomed Program Admissions Committee

06/2017-12/2019 Faculty Oversight Committee for the IIGB Imaging Core

12/2018-12/2019 Task Forces for Process, Grants, and Reporting (UCR SOM)

09/2018-02/2019 SOM Biomed retreat committee

01/2015-12/2018 SOMRB Emergency Evaluation Committee

08/2017-05/2018 Biomed Faculty Search Committee

10/2017 Biomed Project Scientist Search Committee

10/2016-02/2017 Neuroscience Graduate Student Admissions Committee

07/2016-12/2016 SOM Biomed Strategic Planning and Retreat Committee

2014-2016 Biomed Graduate Student Admissions Committee


TEACHING (since 2014)

Medical Curriculum

2026-present Clinical Genetics; Inheritance; Population Genetics; Chromosomal Disorders (MDCL 231, Medical School Education Curriculum Block 1)

2024-2026 Co-Director, Musculoskeletal Medicine (MDCL 234, Medical School Education Curriculum Block 4)

2020-2023 Co-Director, Foundations of Medicine I (MDCL231, Medical School Education Curriculum Block 1)

2020-present Gene Expression; Cytogenetics lab; Molecular Diagnostics Lab (Block 1, MDCL231)

2016-present Neurogenetics (Block 4: MDCL234 Musculoskeletal Medicine)

2016-present Neurogenetics (Block 5: MDCL235 Clinical Neuroscience)

Graduate level Curriculum

2026-present Topics in Translational Biomedical Research (BMSC260A)

2020-present Gene Expression; Cytogenetics lab; Molecular Diagnostics Lab (BMSC229, Foundations in Translational Research)

2020-2026 Methods in Biomedical Research (BMSC261)

2018-2020 Topics in Biomedical Research: Literature review and writing (BMSC260A)

2016-present Neurogenetics (BMSC234)

2016-present Neurogenetics (BMSC235)

2022 Spring Seminar for Biomedical Sciences (BMSC252)

2015-2017 Science Practice, Scientific Method and Bioethics (BMSC254)

2015-2016 Seminar for Biomedical Sciences (BMSC252)

Workshop

2016 Grant application workshop for postdocs, project scientists, and visiting scholars

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