Jennifer C Shieh

Jennifer C Shieh, Ph.D.

  • Position:
    Biology Associate

    Syapse Inc.

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Neuroscience, Stanford University School of Medicine (Stanford, CA)
     
    S.B., Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Susan K. McConnell (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Mriganka Sur (as Undergraduate Student)
     
    Anthony Wagner (as Undergraduate Student)
     
    Eli Peli (as Visiting Student)
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  • Research:
    Figuring out how neurons physically move when they migrate from their birthplace to their final position in the brain.
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  • Other Experience:

    2008-present Co-author, "Guide to Research Techniques in Neuroscience"

    2008 The Tech Museum of Innovation

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  • Honors:

    2007 Student poster award for the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford Annual Neuroscience Research Conference

    2006 American Society for Cell Biology Predoctoral Student Travel Award

    2004-2007 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

    2003 Phi Beta Kappa

    2003 Hans-Lukas Teuber Award for Outstanding Research and Academics in Brain and Cognitive Sciences (MIT)

    2002 Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Award for Outstanding Scholarship and BCS Contributions (MIT)

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Jennifer Shieh's Posters and Presentations (7)

  • Endocytosis is important for neuronal migration (poster)

    JC Shieh, BT Schaar, SK McConnell

    Socity for Neuroscience; 10/2009
  • Adhesion and Endocytosis in Neuronal Migration (poster)

    Jennifer C Shieh, Bruce T Schaar, Susan K McConnell

    American Society for Cell Biology, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA; 12/2008
  • Kif5C Localization in Migrating Neurons (poster)

    Elizabeth C Kao, Jennifer C Shieh, Bruce T Schaar, Susan K McConnell

    American Society for Cell Biology, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA; 12/2008
  • Adhesion and Endocytosis in Neuronal Migration (presentation)

    Jennifer C Shieh, Bruce T Schaar, Susan K McConnell

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Axon Guidance, Synaptogenesis & Neural Plasticity; 09/2008
  • Endocytosis in Neuronal Migration (poster)

    Jennifer C Shieh, Bruce T Schaar, Susan K McConnell

    American Society for Cell Biology, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA; 12/2006
  • Perceived collision with an obstacle in a virtual environment (presentation)

    RL Woods, JC Shieh, L Bobrow, A Vora, J Barabas, RB Goldstein, E Peli

    Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; 05/2003
  • Measures of obstacle avoidance while walking in a virtual environment by patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa. (poster)

    A Pelah, R Hucknall, R Hedges, M Turner, JC Shieh, H Apfelbaum, E Peli

    Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; 05/2002

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A model for how adhesions (blue lines) may be regulated during neuronal migration.


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