Emily Grantham, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Pleasanton, California, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

• Postdoctoral Research
• Designing, implementing, and optimizing bioinformatics pipelines for single nuclei sequencing datasets
• Managing large biological datasets (Tag Seq, snRNA Seq, RNA Seq) and updating analysis workflows as necessary using Linux/shell, GitHub, and RStudio
• Identifying molecular drivers of stress-induced alcohol consumption using whole transcriptome analysis (Tag Seq) from brains of alcohol- and stress-exposed animals

• Graduate Research
• Identified therapeutic candidates for alcoholism that target gut-brain and neuroimmune signaling pathway using whole transcriptome analysis (Tag Seq) from brains of alcohol- and stress-exposed animals
• Designed and executed experiments to study the role of a particular receptor, TLR7, in voluntary alcohol consumption using behavioral pharmacology, quantitative PCR, and immunohistochemistry
• Organized and managed large-scale collaboration across departments and disciplines to execute multi-disciplinary experiment involving microbiology, behavioral neuroscience, mass spectrometry, and computational.
• Participated in Science Policy & Advocacy for STEM Scientists certificate course hosted through UC Irvine and Union of Concerned Scientists
• Presented research findings at domestic and international conferences

Lawrence, Kansas Area

• Research
• Led an independent research project in Dr. Justin Blumenstiel's laboratory to study mechanisms of transposable element and gene regulation in D. melanogaster
• Mastered molecular laboratory techniques such as small RNA sequencing and quantitative PCR
• Identified a novel mechanism for gene regulation by piRNAsCommunication
• Wrote publication-style honors thesis on original research findings
• Presented a 15-minute talk on my work at annual honors symposium

• Research
• Used fluorescence microscopy and deletion mapping to characterize and locate an unknown genetic mutation in female fruit flies that affected meiosis
• Used fluorescence microscopy to live-image oocytes to identify the role of a specific protein in meiosis Presentations
• Presented findings in a short talk format to several groups at the institute
• Created and presented a scientific poster summarizing my work at the Summer Scholars Symposium

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Neurobiology And Neurosciences

I received a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology and completed an honors thesis at the end of my senior year. I worked under the.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Neuroscience