Ari E. Berman, Ph.D.
| Position: |
Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Degree(s): |
Ph.D. (2005) |
| Born: |
Denver, CO., USA |
| In Lab Since: |
2005 |
| EMail: |
ari@bermanism.com |
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I was born in Denver, Colorado in 1974 and moved to Houston, Texas in 1993. At that time, I attended the
University of Texas at Austin and completed a B.S. in Zoology and
a B.A. in general Biology. I also served as a system and network administrator for UT's
Institute for Computational and Engineering Sciences for my entire undergraduate
and graduate careers. Following undergraduate school, I enrolled in the Ph.D. program for Molecular Biology at UT where I studied the
effects of chronic alcohol administration and subsequent withdrawal on brain gene expression levels in mice. I completed my degree requirements
in October 2005 and received my Ph.D. in December 2005. In November 2005, I began my Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCSF under the mentorship
of Dr. Raymond A. Swanson at the San Francisco VA Medical Center where I remain at the present time.
Research Interests
My research interests involve dicovering the mechanisms by which cell death occurs in the prevalent neurodegenerative
diseases of our era. Specifically, I am studing Alzheimer's disease, mechanisms potentially related to Parkinson's disease
and generalized mechanisms for neuronal cell death in aging mouse models.
Selected Publications
- Ponomarev I, Maiya R, Harnett MT, Schafer GL, Ryabinin AE, Blednov YA, Morikawa H, Boehm SL, II, Homanics GE, Berman AE,
Lodowski KH, Bergeson SE, Harris RA. Transcriptional Signatures of Cellular Plasticity in Mice Lacking the α1 Subunit of GABAA Receptors.
J. Neurosci. 26: 5673-5683, 2006