
Contact
- (210) 562-5062
- applee@livemail.uthscsa.edu
Department
PharmacologyEllen Christine Apple
Graduate Student
Personal Statement:
Hometown: Collierville, TN
Hobbies: Drawing, writing, reading fiction (includes comics as well as books), hiking, listening to music
Education
B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Research
Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuronal repair/regeneration
Awards & Accomplishments
September 2016–Poetry submission accepted for publication in Sanctuary (literary magazine)
News
Posters:
December 2014–Effects of RG108 Injections in the Ventral Tegmental Area of the Brain on Associative Reward Learning in Mice (Poster of a chosen figure from a scientific paper presented with other STH 199 students)
April 2015–Thermodynamics of Ethidium with Oxaliplatin-treated DNA (Poster session, UAB Spring Expo)
April 2018–Effects of parkin loss on mitochondrial number in parvalbumin-expressing motor cortex interneurons (Poster session, UAB Spring Expo)
Presentations:
April 2016–Effects of parkin loss on mitochondrial number in parvalbumin-expressing motor cortex interneurons–Proposal presentation for undergraduate thesis work
April 2018–Effects of parkin loss on mitochondrial number in parvalbumin-expressing motor cortex interneurons–Thesis presentation for undergraduate thesis work